PORTLAND (AP) — Lawyers for a Portland, Maine, landlord convicted of code violations following the city’s deadliest fire in decades have dropped out of the case. Landlord Gregory Nisbet was acquitted of six counts of manslaughter but convicted of lesser charges and sought a new trial. The Portland Press Herald reports his attorneys asked to […]
2017
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Man wins $300,000 in dental malpractice suit
AUGUSTA (AP) — A jury has awarded a Maine man nearly $300,000 in damages in a dental malpractice case. The Kennebec Journal reports a jury on Monday found Dr. Jan Kippax and Androscoggin Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, P.A. acted negligently in the case of 25- year-old Stephen Darnell Jr. Darnell’s mouth became infected in 2011 […]
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Radar outages behind changed flight patterns
PORTLAND (AP) — Airport officials in Maine say radar outages were responsible for recent changes in flight patterns from the Portland International Jetport. Airport officials say Federal Aviation Administration surveillance radar at the Gray traffic control tower began having problems in March and continued through September at the airport. Authorities say the outages forced planes […]
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Trial witness says he lied to police about teen’s 1989 death
PORTLAND A second key witness has recanted testimony that helped convict a man who was jailed for 27 years for after the death of his teenage girlfriend. Glenn Brown said Tuesday he lied when he testified he saw Tony Sanborn with a knife and looking for 16- year-old victim Jessica Briggs the night before the […]
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LETTERS
Vote Page Greg Page is a solid Bath citizen. His family was living in Bath when he was born! I was his Junior English teacher at Morse High School. He was a quiet but thoughtful student. As he is completing his first term with Bath City Council, he has become more influential on the numerous […]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a badge of honor … it is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country. — President William McKinley (1843-1901).
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There Are Options
Since the time I joined the working world I sought out job opportunities that would afford me a decent wage and the chance to buy into a health care plan offered by my employer. Once I became a husband, and then a parent, the need to be able to provide health care coverage to my […]
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Hunger Speaks to the Need for a Peaceful World
PeaceWorks is pleased and honored to be collaborating with Brunswick’s Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program (MCHPP) on a new project and we hope you’ll want to get involved. The new project we have in mind is simply SOUP: soup made from gleaned and excess foods. All the generous bounty offered by farmers, grocery stores and […]
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Today in History
In 1685, King Louis XIV signed the Edict of Fontainebleau, revoking the Edict of Nantes that had established legal toleration of France’s Protestant population, the Huguenots. In 1867, the United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. The cornerstone was laid for Baltimore City Hall. In 1892, the first long-distance telephone line between New […]