KITTERY — More than 200 York County residents rallied together on Sunday, Oct. 5 at Tanger Outlet Center for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer community walk, raising more than $21,000. While significant progress in the fight against the disease has been made, more needs to be done. Breast cancer remains the […]
October 2014
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Maine man’s ashes launched into space
AUBURN (AP) — A Maine mother who’s using social media to have her son’s ashes scattered all over the world has sent him on his greatest journey yet: to space. Using her Facebook page, which has more than 17,000 likes, Hallie Twomey has mailed hundreds of packets of her son C.J.’s ashes to strangers worldwide […]
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Suit claims school staff abused students
CONCORD, N.H. — Relatives of two disabled students are suing a New Hampshire special needs school, claiming staff pinched, hit and taunted the children and took photos of a naked boy sitting on a toilet. Lawyers for the parents of a 9-year-old New Hampshire boy and the grandmother of an 11-year-old Vermont girl filed the […]
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Panel hears appeal over gay wedding
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Methodist pastor who was disciplined for officiating at his son’s same-sex wedding will soon find out whether he can remain an ordained minister in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination. The Rev. Frank Schaefer was suspended and then defrocked last year after refusing to promise to refrain from conducting same-sex marriages in […]
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Nova Star sees surge in motor coach bookings
PORTLAND (AP) — The company that runs the Nova Star ferry between Portland, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia says it has already received advance bookings for 43 motor coaches in 2015. The company said fewer than 20 motor coaches took the trip during the inaugural 2014 season. Nova Star Cruises says it expects to book […]
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Walmart scrooges us all
Gosh, time flies when it’s pushed along by a jet stream of greed.It seems like only yesterday that Walmart announced, with much self-congratulatory fanfare, that the super-rich retailing colossus wasn’t a scrooge after all. Indeed, while the world’s largest purveyor of stuff was not about to raise its poverty-level wages, it benevolently decided to provide […]
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Waterboro walk-in clinic to re-open Dec. 1
WATERBORO — There aren’t a lot of specifics available yet, but Southern Maine Health Care has confirmed that the Waterboro Walk-In Care Clinic, idled since June, is set to re-open Dec. 1, a month earlier than was predicted just weeks ago. The clinic closed temporarily on June 19, because of a shortage of nurse practitioners […]
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U.S. video journalist returns home after Ebola recovery
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — An American video journalist who recovered from Ebola is home in Rhode Island. Ashoka Mukpo contracted the virus while working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for NBC and other media outlets. The 33-year-old was released from the Nebraska Medical Center’s biocontainment unit Wednesday and flew back to Rhode Island by private […]
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Preds hand Blackhawks first regulation loss
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — James Neal scored a natural hat trick, and Nashville edged Chicago 3-2 to become the last NHL team still unbeaten in regulation this season. The two Central Division rivals came in as the only teams yet to lose in regulation. They played into overtime six nights earlier in Chicago with the […]
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Maine Maine Center for Disease Control launches Ebola preparedness website
PORTLAND(AP) — Maine is launching a new website about preparedness and response to suspected cases of Ebola virus. The Maine Center for Disease Control announced the new website on Friday. The website includes fact sheets and answers to frequently asked questions about Ebola. Pages for health care providers include guidance from the federal Center for […]