SACO — Volunteers are needed to help keep Saco’s beaches safe by collecting water samples along Bay View, Kinney Shores and the Goosefare Brook watershed. Sampling is done Tuesday mornings from Memorial Day to Labor Day and usually takes about an hour. For more information, contact John Sherman with Saco Parks and Recreation at 283-3139 […]
May 2014
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L.L. Bean announces new board members
FREEPORT (AP) — Maine’s iconic outdoor apparel company L.L. Bean says it’s appointing two new independent directors to its corporate board. L.L. Bean said Thursday it’s appointing Hugh Farrington, former chief financial officer of Hannaford Brothers Company, and Matthew Moellering, CFO and vice president of Express, Inc., in Columbus, Ohio. Farrington held several positions with […]
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Bruins even series with OT win
MONTREAL (AP) — Matt Fraser fantasized about a night like this as a kid in Red Deer, Alberta. Making his NHL playoff debut after being called up Wednesday from Providence of the American Hockey League, the 23-year-old Fraser scored at 1:19 of overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 1-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens […]
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Waterboro teen missing after leaving for a walk
NORTH WATERBORO — Maine wardens, search and rescue teams, sheriff’s deputies, state troopers and others were continuing their search in the woods around the Twin Pines mobile home park off Route 5 this morning for a 15-year-old who went for a walk Thursday afternoon and never returned. Going out for a walk wasn’t unusual for […]
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Ball State promotes professor from dispute
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A Ball State University faculty member has been promoted after being told last year to stop teaching intelligent design in a science course. Republican state Senate education chairman Dennis Kruse tells The Star Press that university officials were “very attentive” to religious and academic freedom concerns he and other legislators raised […]
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Prison officials: Inmate doesn’t need sex change
BOSTON — Massachusetts prison officials on Thursday made another push to overturn a court ruling that would force them to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation to a murder convict with gender-identity disorder. The inmate has been given a substantial amount of care, including female hormones, laser hair removal and psychotherapy, and doesn’t need the surgery, […]
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Gov. LePage unwise to disregard benefits of solar power
“Whenever there is a huge spill of solar energy, it’s just called a nice day.” It’s a quaint saying with a little bite to it; tough to replicate in this country’s mad dash to suck up the remnants of its hydrocarbon reserves. Who needs the future? I may not be able to afford solar panels […]
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Texans pick Clowney No. 1; Manziel goes to Browns
NEW YORK (AP) — For nearly three years, Jadeveon Clowney couldn’t wait to get to the NFL, and the league was just as eager to add the player some called the best defensive prospect in a decade. No surprise: Clowney is the Texans’ man. But Thursday’s first pick of the NFL draft didn’t come without […]
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Search continues for missing Waterboro teen
NORTH WATERBORO — The search, by foot and by air, for a 15-year-old boy missing since mid-afternoon Thursday continued throughout Friday afternoon. Help came from several quarters: There were 15-20 searchers from the Maine Warden Service combing the area, along with a dozen members of Waterboro Fire Department, York County Sheriff’s Office, several from Pine […]
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Keeping history alive
WATERBORO — When Molly Doyle was in third grade, she read the book “Number the Stars.” Written by Lois Lowry, the work of historical fiction outlines an attempt by a 10-year-old to rescue a young Jewish woman by pretending she was her sister during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II. If you […]