Instead of exchanging ideas, politicians will take potshots without any accountability.
2012
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Maine Voices: For health care improvements in Maine, the disagreement is in the how
A column by state Rep. Deborah Sanderson doesn’t represent the best solution for costs, needs.
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Photo: Finding a frozen spot
An ice fisherman sets a trap on a frozen section of Androscoggin Lake in Wayne on Tuesday morning. This section of the lake was solid, but there was open water in the main part. Ice fishing season began Sunday, but ice has been slow in forming because of unseasonably warm temperatures. The Maine Warden Service […]
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Another View: Case-management cuts would hurt effort to control HIV/AIDS
A treatment strategy under attack in Augusta accounts for Maine’s low infection rate.
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Police kill eighth-grader who pointed pellet gun
Police say they don’t know why the 15-year-old aimed what looked like a handgun at officers.
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High School Hockey Notebook: Nothing but wins, yet coach still wants his team to be better
Coach Eric Royal isn’t overly excited about how the Marshwood/Traip Academy boys’ hockey team has started the season. The Hawks, the top-ranked team in the Western Class A Heal point standings, carried a 6-0 record into Wednesday night’s game against Westbrook. “It’s great we’ve won the games,” Royal said. “Obviously we want to win the […]
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Dispatches
A transient who had been living in Augusta has been arrested in last month’s abduction from a Walmart parking lot.
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Macy’s to close nine underperforming stores, affecting 830 workers
CINCINNATI – Macy’s Inc. says it will close five Macy’s and four Bloomingdale’s stores that are underperforming. Clearance sales will begin at the stores Sunday and run for 10 weeks. More than 830 workers will be affected by the closings – 375 at Macy’s stores and 463 at Bloomingdale’s. But many may have the option […]
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Feature Obituary: Robert Norton, 84, Fuller Brush salesman and dowser
SOUTH PORTLAND – Robert Norton was part of a proud and vanishing tradition of door-to-door salesmen. For the past 54 years, he sold home cleaning products for Fuller Brush Co. He joined Fuller Brush in 1957 and retired in November — the day after his 84th birthday. He died on Monday at the Gosnell Memorial […]
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Wichita angry over Boeing closure
The aircraft maker’s plan to shut down in Kansas upsets officials who helped it win a defense contract.