FORT KENT Those whose business it is to monitor ice conditions on Maine’s lakes, rivers and ponds are saying this week there is no safe ice in the state. “It really is the case there is no safe ice in Maine,” Doug Rafferty, spokesman with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said Wednesday. […]
2013
College to turn food waste into fuel
BAR HARBOR (AP) — Maine’s College of the Atlantic has received a federal grant to explore ways to turn food waste into fuel. The Bar Harbor school said a student team has been awarded a $15,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant to develop a system to turn food waste into a resource for liquid fuel or […]
Name of stabbing victim disclosed
BANGOR (AP) — Bangor authorities have released the name of the man stabbed to death late last month. Police say 34-year-old Jeffrey Leblanc was stabbed once in the abdomen at a city home at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
Man pleads not guilty to tax charges
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Standish vacuum cleaner salesman has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he failed to pay $47,000 in taxes. Nathaniel Dupuis was arrested Saturday and arraigned Monday in Kennebec County Superior Court via video from jail. He told the judge he works for a business selling vacuum cleaners and he drives to […]
SCHEDULED PUBLIC MEETINGS
Brunswick STAFF REVIEW, Thursday, 10 a.m., Hawthorne School, 46 Federal St. MASTER PLAN IMPLEMENTATION, Thursday, 6 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St. Durham SELECTMEN, Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Town Office, 630 Hallowell Road. Georgetown SHELLFISH CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, Thursday, 7 p.m., town office. Phippsburg SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE REWRITE COMMITTEE, Thursday, 10 a.m., town hall. LIBRARY TRUSTEES, Thursday, […]
CALENDAR
Thu/3 MISCELLANEOUS HOMESCHOOL TIME, 1-2 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath; 443-5141. LEGO LEAGUE, 3:30-4:15 p.m., Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., Bath; bring your own Lego bin and a snack; 443-5141. CREATIVE MOVEMENT EDUCATION, 4-5 p.m., Bath Dance Works, 72 Front St., Bath; student-centered and engaging movement acticities for children ages 6-12; […]
OMMISSION
Due to a production error, the puzzle for Dec. 27 was not published. It appears here, with the answer to this puzzle upside down below.
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I cut my father out of my life years ago, after he declared he could not support my decision to adopt three children from a Russian orphanage with my longtime companion. The adoption announcement coincided with my “coming out” to Dad, who is now married to his third wife. It must have been […]