The declaration will boost fears in Washington about North Korea’s timetable for building a nuclear missile that can reach the U.S.
2013
Maine man guilty of manslaughter in beating death
Peter Robinson beat a construction company owner to death in a property dispute.
Bill would change Maine moose permit system
AUGUSTA — A public hearing is being held in Augusta on a bill that would increase the number of moose hunting permits in Maine based on the latest moose population estimate. The Legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee is holding public hearings Tuesday on seven different wildlife bills. One of those bills would make […]
Local & State Dispatches
Fire destroys Falmouth Country Club home / Kittery man who caused car crash found guilty on 3 charges . . . and more news from around Maine.
Ex-Klan supporter Wilson dies at 76
Elwin Wilson was glad he lived long enough to try to make amends for years of racial hatred.
Manuscript by Capote could fetch $250,000
An 8 mm film of Marilyn Monroe visiting Army troops also is among hundreds of items up for auction.
Wiscasset students advocate for seniors
WISCASSET Early in the school year, Selectman Ed Polewarczyk approached Kelley Borg Duffy, a social studies teacher at Wiscasset High School, regarding a possible project for her students. Polewarczyk related to Duffy that a resident had told selectmen that the tax burden on the elderly in town was too high, and that there was a […]
Gerzofsky says residents ‘abused’
BRUNSWICK Sen. Stan Gerzofsky, D-Brunswick, has told the operator of Amtrak’s Downeaster that building a $12 million layover facility for passenger trains in town could harm Brunswick residents. In a March 25 letter, Gerzofsky said Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, the Portland-based agency that operates the Downeaster, has “abused” residents of a west Brunswick […]
Council OKs dorm zoning change
BRUNSWICK Bowdoin College will get its new student residence hall on Harpswell Road. Town councilors approved a zoning change Monday adding “residence hall” as a permitted use in the town’s Mixed Use-3 district, a tiny district bordering Harpswell and McLellan roads that encompasses only seven properties. Among them is the former Stevens Home assisted living […]