One new wrinkle: Police are warning against the use of any drones or model aircraft.
2015
Main Street Bath loses director to Bath Iron Works
BATH — Main Street Bath is looking for a new program director after Carolyn Lockwood stepped down this month. Lockwood has returned to Bath Iron Works as a designer. After being elected to the City Council in 2012, Lockwood resigned last August when she became the paid director of Main Street Bath, which promotes the […]
Portland office of Unum plugs into EV movement
PORTLAND — Unum has installed four electric vehicle charging stations for employees at its campus on outer Congress Street. “Basically, the idea of electric vehicle charging stations is being pushed through Unum as a corporation, and they’ve been trying to identify the right location to start for just about a year,” the insurance company’s corporate sustainability […]
DeCosters sentenced to 3 months in jail in egg salmonella outbreak
Austin ‘Jack’ DeCoster of Turner, Maine, once owned an egg business in the state.
Portland School Board takes 3rd shot at revised elementary school hours
PORTLAND — The School Board is again considering new daily schedules for elementary schools next year. At an April 7 workshop and meeting, the board heard a third proposal for start and end times in the city’s eight elementary schools. Under the latest proposal, the Reiche, Riverton and Ocean Avenue schools would start at 8:20 […]
German mother of 13 pregnant with quadruplets at age 65
She defends her decision to have donated eggs implanted: ‘How does one have to behave at 65?’
Full Belly owners to open Westbrook deli
The owners of the former Full Belly Deli are opening a similar restaurant on Main Street in Westbrook. According to owner David Rosen, who closed the original Portland location earlier this year, Rosen’s Deli will open in mid-May at the former home of Blue Burrito, 652 Main St. Rosen, who operated the Portland deli for […]
U.S. airlines giving fliers more reasons to gripe
An annual analysis of performance data finds there were more late flights, lost bags and complaints in 2014.
Mom charged after allegedly dropping boy, 2, into cheetah pit
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo says several people saw the woman holding the child over the railing.
Jodi Arias sentenced to life in prison with no chance for release
The 34-year-old convicted murderer tells a judge she is ‘disgusted’ and ‘repulsed’ with herself.