A California man is creating what he calls the world’s largest private underground survivor shelter in a complex of limestone caves dug more than 100 years ago.
2013
Waterville raid nets crack, heroin, oxycodone; 3 charged
The bust shows just how pervasive drugs are in the city and that there’s always a market for them, says Police Chief Joseph Massey.
South Portland event to launch state robotics institute
SOUTH PORTLAND — A new way to promote science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM learning, will be revealed at Fairchild Semiconductor, 82 Running Hill Road, at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 27. Gov. Paul LePage and Segway inventor Dean Kamen will attend the event introducing the Robotics Institute of Maine. The Westbrook-based institute will be […]
Deering High track star named Gatorade athlete of year
Jared Bell, a senior, won the javelin and the shot put at the Class A state meet.
Deering High track star named Gatorade athlete of year
Jared Bell, a senior, won the javelin and the shot put at the Class A state meet.
State budget expected to impact Brunswick revenue
BRUNSWICK — With Gov. Paul LePage expected to veto a $6.3 billion budget passed by the Legislature, the Town Council is expected to revisit its $57.3 million budget. The council will meet on June 27 to discuss and possibly approve changes to the combined town, school and county budget if the state budget provides the […]
Brunswick Landing seen as model for base redevelopers
BRUNSWICK — Redevelopment efforts at Brunswick Landing may not always go smoothly, but the work has caught the eyes of national officials. This September, the former naval air station and the base developer, the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, will be one of the focuses of a first-in-the-nation three-day Base Redevelopment Forum. Hosted by the Association […]
Former Searsport teacher won’t face retrial in child sex abuse case
Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court agreed with a former Searsport music teacher that he was not advised of his Miranda rights.
Bulger trial witness: The hit man of Country Club Lane
Neighbors in a wooded golf course community learned this week that the 72-year-old they know only as a cordial fellow resident is a former mob hit man.
Former Maine deputy gets four years for molesting girls
The former Somerset County sheriff’s deputy and husband of a daycare owner pleads guilty to four counts of unlawful sexual contact with children under the age of 14.