Police say they also found more than $100,000 in cash.
2015
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Hall leaps past national long jump record
On Sunday, in her final jump, Casco’s Kate Hall broke the oldest U.S. girls’ high school track-and-field record with a jump of 22 feet, 5 inches reaching the pinnacle of her long-jumping career. Hall, who recently graduated from Lake Region High School, uncorked the new all-time record on her final attempt at the New Balance […]
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Posted inMaine, News
Video captures aurora borealis from atop Cadillac Mountain
This time-lapse video of the aurora borealis, viewed Monday night from atop Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, was posted by Earl Brechlin.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine National Guard unit returns from Wisconsin exercise
The exercise involved evacuating injured and wounded soldiers from the field to treatment facilities using helicopters and airplanes.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Forecaster Opinion
Letters
Beware the pundits It’s hardly surprising that editorial writers and assorted pundits are indifferent to easily available budget and tax data from our neighbor New England states. Count this as another example of bias by omission. They have their heads up in the clouds writing about Democratic legislators, but somewhere else when writing about Republicans […]
Posted inCurrent, Forecaster Opinion, Southern Forecaster
Greetings from Zip Code 04074 (Life in the Suburbs): Homer slept here (OK, painted here)
I hate Daniel E. O’Leary. He is a former big wheel at the Portland Museum of Art. He has been hired by the Winslow Homer Studio people at Prouts Neck in Scarborough on a project that, ideally, I should be hired to do, but which he has been hired to do. He is going to […]
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Town, school leaders hope $500K reduction is enough
The Scarborough Town Council is expected to finalize a $500,000 reduction in the proposed new fiscal year school budget this week that would lead to a 72-cent increase in the tax rate when combined with the municipal and county budgets. Voters rejected the original school budget of nearly $46.8 million during a referendum on June […]
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Woman says kidney donor went ‘above and beyond’
“Practice Random Acts of Kindness” bumper stickers are popular these days, but not many people would follow through and be willing to offer a stranger a life-saving organ transplant. However, that’s just what Josh Dall-Leighton, of Windham, did for Christine Royles, of South Portland, during a live kidney transplant operation last week at Maine Medical […]
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Woman says kidney donor went ‘above and beyond’
“Practice Random Acts of Kindness” bumper stickers are popular these days, but not many people would follow through and be willing to offer a stranger a life-saving organ transplant. However, that’s just what Josh Dall-Leighton, of Windham, did for Christine Royles, of South Portland, during a live kidney transplant operation last week at Maine Medical […]
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Woman says kidney donor went ‘above and beyond’
“Practice Random Acts of Kindness” bumper stickers are popular these days, but not many people would follow through and be willing to offer a stranger a life-saving organ transplant. However, that’s just what Josh Dall-Leighton, of Windham, did for Christine Royles, of South Portland, during a live kidney transplant operation last week at Maine Medical […]