State officials recently discovered European frogbit, an invasive water plant, growing in Maine for the first time. They found the infestation just outside Augusta, in the northeast corner of Cobbossee Lake in Manchester, and announced the discovery Wednesday. The news came just a week after the announcement that a different invasive plant, Eurasian water milfoil, was […]
2018
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Bicyclist injured in Saco hit-and-run
SACO — Police are investigating two car accidents that occured close in time on Friday evening. Saco Police responded to a reported hit and run car crash involving a red pickup truck and a bicyclist on Jenkins Road at 5:06 p.m. on Friday. The police and fire departments found bicyclist, Michael Buck, 40, of Saco, injured […]
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A retirement and a resignation in Sanford codes office
SANFORD — After a retirement and a resignation Sanford is down to two codes enforcement officers from four. Code Enforcement Officer Shirley Sheesley worked for the city for 18 years and retired July 27. City Manager Steve Buck said her expertise and work ethic will be sorely missed. On the same day Sheesley retired, Code […]
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Recipe: Roasted Tomato, Fennel and Sardine Pasta
This one’s for the doubters.
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Stephen Curry supports women’s game by hosting girls camps
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Just like Steph, seventh-grader Amanda Kerner stood before a big crowd and knocked down shot after shot from five different spots on the court — 20 makes in 2 1/2 minutes, complete with a buzzer-beater. For one afternoon, Stephen Curry ensured that 200 girls in his camp had as real a […]
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Mike Johnson: Lost in her thoughts
Stuck hopelessly behind an afternoon school bus, you have few options. So you make the best of it. And become the observer. She looked to be about 14, Dorothy-like with her pigtails and pink striped dress, bow dangling loosely behind her waist. She stepped out from the loaf-shaped, orange vehicle alone, oblivious to the 10 […]
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Boston College hoping to take next step in ACC
BOSTON — AJ Dillon ran for 1,589 yards and 14 touchdowns for Boston College as a freshman behind a patchwork offensive line that was constantly shuffling in new players because of injury. Give Dillon a full season behind some healthy blockers, and the Eagles think they can break into the top half of the Atlantic […]
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Mainers plant pollinator gardens, become foster parents of sorts for monarch butterflies
BRUNSWICK — Anna Agell pulls out a sheaf of notes on the monarch butterflies she’s raised already this year. There was Rudolf Nureyev, so named because her daughter’s cast-off pink ballet tights were draped over the container where he transitioned from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. Then there was Minnie, found as an inch-long caterpillar […]
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Valerie Egar: An Amazon Tale
Jock, my neighbor, sailed the seas as a merchant marine for thirty years. At first, all I heard were tales of hurricanes, steamy ports near the equator with spiders big as cats, deadly icebergs in the far north. Then he started telling me about river ports he’d seen. He’d delivered bulldozers to Nile ports in […]
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OTISFIELD Parishes pool their efforts for 10th Friendship Day Area parishes are partnering to hold the 10th Friendship Day at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Community of the Resurrection, 205 Poplar Ridge Road, off Route 121. Congregants of St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish (St. Catherine of Sienna Church, Norway; Our Lady of Ransom Church, Mechanic […]
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