Scientists piece together a full skeleton and find an ancestral relative of the modern ostrich that is described as weird and bemusing.
October 2014
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: While Cutler was busy running, Michaud was doing the hard work
Mike Michaud will work with Mainers on the real issues – and he’ll make us want to work with him.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Alan Caron: Negative campaign ads are poisoning our democracy
It won’t stop until voters punish candidates who resort to attacking their opponents.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: A farsighted state can’t afford not to borrow for worthy projects
This year’s package of six proposals would be a wise investment in Maine’s economic future.
Posted inNation & World
Slaying, manhunt panic Canada’s capital
After Canada opts to assist the U.S. in Iraq, a soldier is slain in Ottawa – after another is killed in Quebec.
Posted inTimes Record
Board grapples over what to do
BRUNSWICK Brunswick likely won’t get another elementary school for at least eight years, according to school officials. In the meantime, the school board is grappling with how to get support for funding for its aging — and in one instance, vacant — schools. The school board on Wednesday appeared to lament its inability to come […]
Posted inTimes Record
Costs, choice dominate talk
WEST BATH The cost of the possible withdrawal of West Bath from Regional School Unit 1 was hotly debated at a public hearing Wednesday night at the West Bath elementary school, as was the future of school choice students who may lose their placement at the school if West Bath exits the RSU. Following the […]
Posted inTimes Record
Wiscasset returning to ballot for budget
WISCASSET Poor voter turnout at Wiscasset’s first open Town Meeting in nearly a decade caused the Board of Selectmen to vote Tuesday for a return to a secret ballot election for the municipal budget. At the May 31 Town Meeting, 181 of Wiscasset’s roughly 2,788 registered voters passed a municipal budget for 2014-15. The turnout […]
Posted inTimes Record
Students take divestment request to trustees
BRUNSWICK A group of Bowdoin College students are continuing to press the case to divest fossil fuel companies from the college’s endowment. Members of Bowdoin Climate Action met with the school’s board of trustees Oct. 17 to state their case for divestment. The students’ cause was buoyed by a letter signed by 70 faculty members […]