AUBURN — Yvonne St.Pierre, 95, formerly of 10 Oak St., Lewiston, died Monday, May 12, 2014, at Clover Manor. She was born in Lewiston, June 28, 1918, daughter of the late Adelard and Lucie Poulin Vachon. Yvonne was married to the late Lucien St.Pierre of Brunswick, Maine, on Oct. 25, 1941. They celebrated more than […]
May 2014
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SERVICE NOTICE
BOWDOIN — Russell A. Rogers, of Bowdoin, passed away on Saturday, March 1, 2014. Graveside services will be held on Saturday, May 17, at 3 p.m. at the cemetery on Coombs Road in Bowdoin (off the Augusta Road). There will be a celebration of his life afterward at the Bowdoin Center Baptist Church, 964 Burrough […]
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Short straw
Weak gun sales in states like Maine lead to drug trafficking and terrorism, as well as all the garden variety ills — domestic murders, road rage, workplace or school violence — that such weapons make possible, or more likely. The drug/gun cycle is fairly well documented. Guns are purchased with relative ease in Maine, sometimes […]
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A friendly exchange
Conventional wisdom has it that the greatest benefit of our new e-reality is its social interaction, that more and more shared data optimizes life, personal and worldwide. However, to know everyone, everyone must know us. The question is: how well? Privacy still remains a much valued commodity despite e-media’s redefinition of past expectations. Unintended third […]
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Our Arctic interests
I was recently sent an email alerting me to a conference at the University of Maine that appears to be about dragging us into another one of the oil-i-garchy’s latest chaos zones. Here is a bit from the invite: “The University of Maine School of Policy and International Affairs and the Maine Army National Guard […]
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Staggering delivery costs?
Post Office costs, it’s time for us to change our expectations and ask, do we require daily mail delivery? Face it, information transfer requirements have changed; presently, many legal documents and most payments of bills are transmitted electronically; funds transfer by paper check is all but an anachronism. We, citizens, need to step back and […]
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Rules won’t apply to all trains carrying crude oil
AUGUSTA Just as the state has revealed that crude oil shipments by rail have resumed along the state’s rail lines, Maine state emergency officials say new federal rules about shipping hazardous materials such as crude by rail don’t go far enough. For example, the new rule does not apply to trains carrying less than a […]
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Officials to release school report cards
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine officials are handing out new grades to the state’s schools. The new A-F grades for Maine schools are set to be released to the public on Thursday. Schools received their individual grades earlier this week. Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration began handing out letter grades to schools last year. It says […]
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Man pleads guilty to pharmacy robbery
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland man who claimed he had a bomb in a backpack during a pharmacy robbery last month has pleaded guilty. Jason Campbell pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland on Wednesday to robbing a Congress Street CVS store on April 11. Prosecutors say the 39- year-old Campbell approached the counter, […]