The four serve with the 1968th Contingency Contracting Team, which contracts for supplies, services and construction to support humanitarian and combat missions.
March 2012
Police search for missing Bethel woman
A landlord alerted authorities March 12 when Fay Johnson had not been seen for several days and her dog was left in her new apartment.
Victim: Lamoine shooting over truck paint job
Joshua McKinney of Ellsworth says it was over a $1,200 paint job done to a truck owned by Michael Carter, one of the other men wounded.
Crowds enjoy the sweet science of Maine Maple Sunday
Rain and the poor maple syrup season don’t dampen the spirits of those visiting the state’s sugarhouses.
Maine lawmakers stall health-insurance exchange
Republicans on a legislative committee vote against creating an exchange as they hope the new law is struck down.
Dispatches
Mother and two children left homeless by Poland fire / Teen found after spending night in 30-degree weather . . . and more Maine news.
PRESS HERALD SPECIAL REPORT
Late last year, salmonella from tainted ground beef sickened at least 20 people — maybe hundreds more — and led to a Hannaford beef recall. How did this happen? Read Day 2 of our special investigate report.
Pegleg Pete … Harpswell’s great white hop
HARPSWELL — They think Pegleg Pete lost his foot to a clam, but Harpswell resident Ruth Weeks said she’s not exactly sure how the Potts Point seagull lost the limb. “(A neighbor) told me that when she first moved in, she would see him with a clam attached to his foot,” Weeks said. “So, we think […]
Court takes up health law fight
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is front and center at the Supreme Court for three days of hearings to determine the fate of a law aimed at extending health insurance to more than 30 million Americans. The justices will hear arguments beginning today in a highly partisan legal fight between the Obama administration […]
College, Brunswick revisit exchange
BRUNSWICK — The Town Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday to reconsider whether it wants $ 2 million or a downtown building from Bowdoin College in exchange for the former Longfellow School. Last fall, the town and the college closed a deal to exchange the town-owned Longfellow School for the college’s McLellan Building, across from […]