With more snow likely on the way, public works crews have already plowed multiple storms this winter, eating through road salt supplies in both Gorham and Westbrook. Robert Burns, director of Gorham Public Works, said on Monday that Gorham had received 86 inches of snowfall this winter, already eclipsing the 10-year average of 84 inches […]
February 2015
Posted inNation & World, News
MacArthur Foundation pledges $75 million to fix U.S. jails
Nearly 12 million people annually pass through the more than 3,000 county lockups and city jails across the country – most for nonviolent offenses.
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Posted inAmerican Journal
Don’s Lunch done in
The disheartened Westbrook family whose popular Main Street food van was shut down by the state last week for failure to pay sales taxes most likely won’t reopen it. “It has devastated our family,” Justin Richards, son of owner James Richards, said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, the way it looks now,” he said, the family probably […]
Posted inThe Maine Forecast
A welcome break from the big snow
Recently, I wrote about the ‘Great Snow of 1717,’ a series of four storms in 10 days. When that event was over, Cotton Mather recounted stories of up to 5 feet of snow in Maine in what was an unprecedented snow event. Fast forward almost exactly 300 years and we have seen something similar. What’s transpired […]
Posted inNews, Sports
Maine Basketball Hall of Fame to induct 29
Southern Maine inductees include Edward ‘Bo’ McFarland and Bob Warner.
Posted inNation & World
Judge dismisses another Hernandez juror
The jury hears testimony from police officers and a firefighter, who responded to the crime scene.
Posted inMaine, News
Report: Maine’s need for affordable senior housing is growing
A study finds there was a shortage of nearly 9,000 units of affordable housing available to low-income older people in 2012.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Northern Forecaster, Web
Indoor Track: After Regionals, Freeport looks to States
The track season is nearing its zenith; this past Friday’s Western Maine Conference Championship gathered better than a dozen schools from around southern Maine at the University of Southern Maine’s Costello Sports Complex in Gorham. Falmouth, traditionally strong, did particularly well as a team, taking first on the boys’ side of things and third on […]
Posted inBusiness
Rite Aid spends $2 billion on push into managing pharmacy benefits
The drugstore chain buys EnvisionRx, which runs prescription drug plans for such customers as employers and insurers, putting it in competition with CVS, among others.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current
Swimming: Girls compete in North Southwesterns
The girls’ half of this year’s North Southwesterns came the day after the boys, but packed Davan Pool in Westbrook just as tightly and loudly. The Rangers of Greely showed their stuff in the team standings, with Cheverus taking second and Cape Elizabeth third, but athletes hailing from a wide variety of schools owned the […]
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