Meanwhile, her Democratic challenger Shenna Bellows surpasses $1 million in total fundraising.
May 2014
Improving Saturday forecast leads to super start to June
It wasn’t as cool this morning as yesterday, but with temperatures in the lower 40s in many places, it still was too cool for what you might expect in late May. May is likely going to end up being only a bit cooler than average month which seems counter-intuitive to what we have experienced. I […]
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to buy Clippers for $2 billion
It is the largest amount ever paid for an NBA team, according to the Los Angeles TImes.
Maine Guard general, on Friday radio show, defends his decisions, blames ‘sensationalist’ media for controversy
In a Friday morning radio interview, Brig. Gen. James Campbell says initial stories that he was seeking to move the 133rd Battalion were ‘way off the mark.’
Police knew about but didn’t view Elliot Rodger’s videos
A police statement also reveals new details about the sequence of events leading up to the killings near a Santa Barbara university.
Accident ties up traffic on Casco Bay Bridge
A vehicle hit the guardrail on the span that connects Portland and South Portland. No one was injured
Fireworks for sale in Windham
WINDHAM – More than two years after the legalization of consumer fireworks in Maine, Windham is now home to a fireworks retail store, Pyro City. Steve Marson, the owner of Farmingdale-based Central Maine Pyrotechnics, opened the store at 399 Roosevelt Trail on Thursday, May 22. Marson, a former construction manager at Bath Iron Works, has […]
History comes alive in Windham Center
WINDHAM – Re-enactors from Company A of the Third Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry spent Memorial Day weekend recreating a Civil War encampment on the Village Green, located behind the Windham Historical Society on Windham Center Road. At the invitation of the historical society, which hosted the Third Maine group in 2012, about 30 Union re-enactors […]
Budget hike, borrowing face town meeting votes
RAYMOND – At the June 3 town meeting, Raymond voters will have a chance to weigh in on a proposed budget that increases property taxes 2.67 percent, an $885,000 capital improvements bond, and a $50,000 appropriation toward a 347-acre community forest project along Conesca Road. Facing a revenue shortfall, Raymond officials hope to make up […]
Portland man arrested on child porn charges
Marcus Chapman, 42, has thousands of images on his computer, according to Maine State Police.