FREEPORT High school student wins 19th annual art contest Freeport High School senior Lily Johnston is the winner of Liberty Graphics T-shirts’ 19th annual Art and Our Natural Environment contest for Maine high school seniors. Johnston took top honors and a $1,000 prize for her monochromatic blue acrylic painting titled “Alpine Zone.” ELLSWORTH/PORTLAND People of […]
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Reunions
Cape Elizabeth High School Class of 1968 50th reunion. Sept. 15. Purpoodock Club, Cape Elizabeth. Looking for classmate information. Contact Steve Hill at [email protected]. Deering High School Class of 1963 55th reunion. 5 p.m. Oct. 6. DiMillo’s Restaurant, Commercial Street, Portland. $25. Reservations required. Contact Dawn DeRice at [email protected]. Lewiston High School Class of 1949 […]
Births
Maine Medical Center Paul Everett Cobb, born July 22 to Paul D. and Andrea Cobb of Raymond. Grandparents are Joseph P. and Jacqueline Parent of Windham and Paul M. and Susan Cobb of Raymond. Great-grandparents are Helen Cobb, Joseph R. and Shirley Parent, all of Raymond; Joyce Rovve of Ocala, Florida; and David and Pat […]
Community meals
MONDAY Free community breakfast, including eggs, bacon, pancakes, French toast and pastries, as well as coffee, tea, juice and milk. 6:30 to 9 a.m. Chestnut Street Baptist Church, 29 Chestnut St., Camden. 542-0360. Grange supper, including homemade beans and casseroles, and pies. 4:30 to 6 p.m. Somerset Grange, 9 Mercer Road, Norridgewock. $7. 634-2215. WEDNESDAY […]
Former Maine drug agent steps into an unlikely role
The security consultant and courier is still fighting crime – but now it’s from inside the legal marijuana industry.
Maine judge tells no-show jurors they’re out of order
The state’s deputy chief justice warns they may face punishment for ignoring summonses.
Baxter State Park’s new director keeps focus on ‘wild’
As pressure for modern conveniences intensifies at the popular Maine park, Eben Sypitkowski’s determined to ‘be resilient to the changes I see coming.’
Creatures cured, comforted at Cape Neddick center
The nonprofit can care for up to 200 animals at a time and those that are unable to be released back into the wild become ‘ambassadors.’
For Maine’s marijuana industry, security’s still high-risk
Largely shut out of federally regulated banking options, the lucrative medical pot marketplace in Maine – ‘a very soft target’ – presents some safety challenges for dispensaries, caregivers and growers in a field with few protections in place.
Decades of chemical pollution suspected in Maine’s seal die-off
With their immune systems compromised by toxins such as PCBs, the Gulf of Maine marine mammals are susceptible to disease.