BIDDEFORD — Erin Hamlen never saw herself as a pioneer. Not when she was a goaltender at the University of New Hampshire and helped to usher women’s hockey into the Olympics. Not when she was the first female to play on a men’s professional team. And not now, as the first coach of the new […]
2012
Posted inThe Forecaster
Bath organization wins national 'Main Street' award
BATH — The City of Ships is once again being honored on a national level. Main Street Bath is one of five organizations across the country to receive this year’s Great American Main Street Award. The winners, selected by a national jury, were announced Monday at the National Main Street Conference in Baltimore. The 15 Commercial […]
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Dispatches
National immigration sweep captures 145 in New England / Overnight turnpike drivers to hit construction delays / New law provides wider ban in designer drug battle . . . and other Maine news.
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UMaine System employee raises total $7 million
The increases went to 809 people over seven years while many others went without.
Posted inSports
Flaherty: I made the big leagues!
Portland’s Ryan Flaherty earns a spot on the Baltimore Orioles’ opening-day roster.
Posted inNews, Politics
Portland budget would raise property tax rate 2.9%
The city manager says he brings a fresh perspective and proposes new initiatives for the city.
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Gorham fire investigation continues
GORHAM — An unoccupied single-family home on Great Falls Road (in photo) was destroyed Sunday morning. State and local fire investigators spent Monday trying to determine who set three fires in Gorham. The fires, which began March 27, have damaged or destroyed three vacant buildings: the Gorham SnoGoers clubhouse at 209 Mighty St. and two […]
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Nation Dispatches
WASHINGTON Obama: Drug violence harms U.S.-Mexico relations The explosion of drug-fueled violence along Mexico’s border with the United States could harm relations between the two nations, President Obama said Monday; Mexico’s leader retorted that much of the problem of drugs and guns begins on the U.S. side of the line. In the thick of political […]
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Bath’s Front Street wins national honors
BATH — Bath has become Maine’s first community to receive a Great American Main Street award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The city was one of five communities in the nation to be honored Monday as award winners for 2012, for its distinctive Front Street. Only five New England communities have been named […]