SCARBOROUGH — Theresa F. Soucy, 87, of Reef Lane, died Feb. 20 at Maine Medical Center, with her family by her side. She was born in Stockholm on July 1, 1927, the daughter of Alfred and Lucy Michaud Lausier. She graduated from Madawaska High School in the class of 1945. She started her career with Maine […]
February 2015
Cape Elizabeth Police Beat: Feb. 27
Arrests 2/17 at 1:34 p.m. Moses Losuk, 18, of Jewett Road, was arrested on Jewett Road by Officer Ben Davis on a charge of violating conditions of release. Summonses 2/20 at 1:45 p.m. Elyse St. Laurent, 63, of Portland, was issued a summons on Shore Road by Officer Jeffrey Gaudette on a charge of operating […]
Peter F. Flaig, 90
TOPSHAM — Peter F. Flaig, 90, of River Road, died Feb. 15 in Brunswick, after a period of declining health. He was born Feb. 13, 1925, the son of Felix and Grace Arno Flaig. He attended Topsham and Brunswick schools. On Aug. 7, 1948, he married Jeanne Trank. She died on April 5, 2007. Flaig was […]
Southern School Notebook: Students display their art, win academic honors
From kindergarten kids to high-school seniors, students throughout the state have created more than 100 works of art as part of Maine Youth Art Month, which begins Saturday with an exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art. The student show of paintings, drawings, sculpture, collage, mixed media pieces and other works is on view through […]
Mary-Anne Dodge, 67
BATH — Mary-Anne Dodge, 67, of Tower Circle and a lifelong resident of Bath, died Feb. 6 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough. She was born in Bath on Aug. 13, 1947, a daughter of Andrew Paul and Betty Gene (Shively) Csorosz. She graduated from Morse High School in 1965. On June 29, 1966, she […]
Monster quasar astounds, puzzles astronomers
It’s 420 trillion times as bright as our sun and powered by a staggeringly massive black hole.
Summit Natural Gas set to resume building network in April
The gas company fell behind last year on its promises to have gas flowing to homeowners.
Maine bill would have state fund charter schools directly
The measure, backed by the Legislature’s Education Committee, would then relieve school districts of the responsibility and the difficulty.
Blaze guts home on Sebago Lake; boy treated for minor injuries
Raymond’s fire chief says the home on Murch Landing Road was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
‘Giant pile of metal’
CARMEL A combination of snow, speed and a busy morning commute Wednesday led to what may be the largest chain-reaction crash in state history. Interstate 95 was shut down to northbound travel between Newport and Bangor for more than four hours after 75 vehicles slid, spun, slammed into each other and skidded off the snow-slickened […]