May 2014
Posted inJournal Tribune

Leffler named SMHC Volunteer of the Year

BIDDEFORD — At an annual luncheon given in their honor recently, Southern Maine Health Care officially thanked its volunteers for contributing more than 58,000 hours in 2013. During the ceremony, Wells resident Walter Leffler, who volunteers in the safety department, was recognized with the prestigious Lauren Shulman Volunteer of the Year award. This nomination-based honor […]

Posted inJournal Tribune

Ready to set sail

by SUBMITTED PHOTO

Students from The New School in Kennebunk met recently at Wells Harbor to christen the “Wu Wei” ”“ the high school’s new 23-foot sailboat. The name is a Taoist expression that loosely translates as “going with the flow.” The students will be sailing the boat around Long Island Sound for two weeks during the school’s […]

advertisement
Posted inJournal Tribune

Ending income gap poses challenges

There’s a lot of talk these days about the income gap between the rich and the not-so-rich. At the top end, salaries and bonuses are measured in the tens of millions, while the minimum wage remains at $7.25 an hour, where it has been since 2009. Nowhere among advanced countries is the gap greater or […]

Posted inJournal Tribune

Brain health is related to diet, exercise

by ZAFFIE HADIARIS | Columnist

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”  — Eugene F. Ware Feeling forgetful? What can we do to avoid this brain menace? What can help us age-proof our brain? New imaging technology in the field of neuroscience is revealing that the brain is far more elastic than we previously thought. With some work and the […]

Posted inJournal Tribune

Cases gone cold

by DINA MENDROS | Staff Writer

BIDDEFORD — May 21, 1999 was the last time college student Angel Antonio Torres was seen. According to his mother, Ramona Torres, a boy named Jason was supposedly the last person to see her son at about 2 a.m. in Biddeford. She said she was told that Jason had dropped off her son so he […]

Posted inForecaster Sports, The Forecaster

Unbelievable! Yarmouth scores six in the seventh to stun Falmouth

by Michael Hoffer

YARMOUTH—It was the May 30th Miracle. A comeback for the ages. A finish that defied reason. And most of all, for the Yarmouth softball team, it was a Heal Points-rich victory over ancient rival Falmouth. Friday afternoon at the Yarmouth Community Sports Complex, the Clippers appeared overmatched from the start, as Yachtsmen sophomore pitcher Julia […]

https://www.pressherald.com/2014/05/page/16