Cities with legislated higher pay, like Portland, have fewer resources to ensure that workers are getting everything they’ve earned.
May 2, 2016
On Baseball: Relentless Sox turn it around
Boston gets contributions from everyone and moves into first place.
Red Sox complete sweep of New York
Christian Vazquez’s tiebreaking homer helps Boston earn a third straight win over the Yankees, 8-7.
BIW to make first Flight III destroyer
BATH U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, announced Saturday that Bath Iron Works will build the Navy’s first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG- 51). This DDG-51 Flight III guided missile destroyer will incorporate new technologies, including a powerful new radar called the SPY-6, also referred to as the Air and Missile […]
Students ‘to build’ on their learning
WEST BATH An outdoor classroom is coming to West Bath School, and students are working hard to make sure it’s ready before the end of the school year. In March, it was announced that Lowe’s Home Improvement awarded the school a $5,000 Toolbox for Education grant for its construction thanks to Elizabeth Jarvis, a gifted […]
Region 10 connects students, employers
BRUNSWICK Region 10 Technical High School hosted a job fair for its students Friday, featuring more than 30 employers from the Army, Cianbro and General Dynamics to local businesses such as Crooker Construction and Wally J. Staples. Cooperative Education instructor Jason Darling said the school really tried to tie it into the programs that they […]
Lawmakers overturn Gov. LePage’s Narcan veto
AUGUSTA With five state residents dying each week from drug overdoses, lawmakers on Friday overwhelmingly rejected Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of a bill that would increase availability of an overdose antidote. But they failed to overcome his veto of a bill to modernize state policies on solar power. LePage vetoed the proposal to allow […]
Sen. King, in Freeport, addresses opioid crisis
FREEPORT On the day in which the State Legislature voted to override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of a bill that would have provided greater access to the drug known as Narcan, U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, told the crowd at the Freeport Hilton Garden Inn that opioids are the greatest epidemic threat he has seen […]
Brunswick student recycling dorm fridges
LEWISTON A college student appalled at the dorm furnishings his roommates were leaving behind his freshman year has started a booming business recycling mini refrigerators. Mitch Newlin, of Brunswick, goes to Bates College in Lewiston. The 22- year-old buys dorm refrigerators at the end of the school year and sells them to incoming students the […]