2012
Freeport Middle School Honor Roll
FREEPORT — Freeport Middle School has announced its second trimester honor roll. Grade 6 High honors Griffin Agnese, Beverly Anderson, Ben Barry, A. Benway, Maya Bradbury, Kellsie Britton, Joshua Burke, Chloe Davidson, Ellie Dickson, Jessica Driscoll, Maya Egan, Taylor Hooper-White, Lauren Schenker, Nathan Thomas, Callie Toothaker and Alexandra Wagner. Honors Rebecca Cameron, Maxwell Coffin, Grace […]
Scheduled Public Meetings
Bowdoinham PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING ON RECYCLING BARN AND PUBLIC WORKS GARAGE, Thursday, 6 p.m., town hall. Freeport SHELLFISH COMMISSION, Thursday, 6:30 p.m., town council chambers. Georgetown HARBOR COMMITTEE, Thursday, 6 p.m., town hall. Harpswell SELECTMEN WORKSHOP WITH BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND CURTIS MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Thursday, 5 p.m., town office. BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Thursday, 6 p.m., […]
Maine Media Women scholarship available
AUGUSTA — Maine Media Women, a statewide organization of communications professionals, offers a $1,000 scholarship to a Maine woman who is due to graduate from high school this year. “The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage and support young Maine women who wish to go into any field of communications media,” a release from […]
AARP, Spectrum team up to give tax aid
TOPSHAM — Spectrum Generations is once again collaborating with AARP to offer tax preparation services at its community centers throughout central Maine. This free service is open to any member of the community for support with personal income taxes now through mid-April. Appointments are required for all locations. To schedule an appointment, call Spectrum Generations […]
JetBlue pilot’s unraveling baffles friends
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) — No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side. Now federal prosecutors have charged Osbon following his bizarre unraveling […]
House ready to OK GOP budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama’s call to raise taxes on the rich. The blueprint by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was […]
Top seller in Maine: Allen’s coffee brandy
ELLSWORTH ( AP) — Allen’s Coffee Flavored Brandy remains the top seller in Maine liquor stores, even though sales slipped last year. Statistics from the state Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations indicate four different sizes of the coffee-flavored liquor produced by M.S. Walker Inc. in Somerville, Mass., finished in the Top 10 in […]
Scarborough teen’s wheelchair recovered
SCARBOROUGH ( AP) — The disappearance of a Scarborough teen’s customized wheelchair was apparently a big misunderstanding. Chris Fitzgerald says his wheelchair went missing last week from a neighbor’s driveway. His mother often leaves it there when she works late so he can use it for the quarter mile trip home because Chris can’t walk […]
Three indicted in theft of copper wire
BANGOR (AP) — A former employee of Bangor Hydro- Electric Co. and two other people have been indicted on charges of stealing copper wire worth $35,000 from the utility. A Penobscot County grand jury on Wednesday indicted 65-year-old Stephen Ryan of Bangor, 33- year- old Leslie Mushero of LaGrange, and 42- year- old Marc Corey […]