BLACKVILLE, New Brunswick (AP) — The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is advising people who stole live lobsters from a crash site in New Brunswick that the critters might be contaminated and shouldn’t be eaten. Police from Blackville responded to an overturned truck on Highway 8 early Tuesday. The truck had been transporting live lobsters, and […]
2017
Lawmakers want more charges against ‘The Codfather’
PORTLAND (AP) — Two U.S. representatives say a fishing magnate known as “The Codfather,” who pleaded guilty to evading fishing quotas, should also be charged under federal fishery laws. Carlos Rafael also pleaded guilty to smuggling money to Portugal and was sentenced to nearly four years in prison in September. But Arizona Democratic Rep. Raul […]
Father charged with assault after attacking 14-year-old
WATERVILLE (AP) — A Maine man has been charged with assault after police say he attacked a 14-year-old boy who pushed his daughter into a river. Police say 33-year-old James Beaulieu II, of Waterville, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault Sunday evening for the alleged assault of the teenager and his adult brother. […]
LETTERS
Support the School Bond On November 7, voters in RSU 1 communities will have a ballot question that asks for approval to borrow for the construction of a new Morse High School and Bath Regional Career and Technical Center. Authorization is sought to issue bonds for the $75,386,890 project. Of that amount, 91.4 percent is […]
Voters – Meet the Music Man & Friends
In the 1962 film adaptation of the musical production “The Music Man,” the leading character, one “Professor Harold Hill,” a consummate con-man, presented the townspeople of River City, Iowa with the tantalizing prospect of solving all their perceived local problems by forming band groups. Of course, he would be the one selling them all the […]
Can we Learn to Abandon War?
Brunswick Church bells will be ringing out for two full minutes at 11 o’clock in the morning of Saturday, November 11. Veterans for Peace, PeaceWorks and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom invite you to stop to listen to the powerful sound of church bells, a sound that has the power to fill […]