ELLSWORTH — A man living in Hancock County who was arrested this month on as a fugitive from justice has been charged in two unsolved Massachusetts rape cases from the 1990s, Massachusetts authorities said. Maine State Police Detective Greg Roy took Ivan Keith, 61, into custody at his Tremont home just before noon on Aug. […]
2019
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Portland police arrest another suspect in burglary, this time at construction site
Danny Arnold of Portland is charged with burglary, theft and criminal mischief in the break-in at the Portland Company site, police say.
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Posted inHealth, Maine, Nation & World, News
In Maine and nation, swift fallout from quitting federal family planning program
Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning are having to tap reserves, intensify fundraising efforts.
Posted inMaine, News
Deep dive on coastal ecosystems funded by $20 million federal grant
The National Science Foundation will help pay for a 5-year project aimed at dramatically improving the understanding of coastal ecosystems through studying DNA.
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
New Gloucester residents to see $1.10 tax rate increase
NEW GLOUCESTER — The Selectboard unanimously voted Monday night to raise the town’s property tax rate $1.10, from $15.80 to $16.90 per $1,000 of assessed value. The town raised its rate by 20 cents last year, and the town’s assessing consultant Mike O’Donnell said at the meeting that not raising it again was “not on […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
60 years ago: Aug. 22
The Westbrook American reported on Aug. 26, 1959, that Mr. and Mrs. Roland Boissoneau and family of Westbrook had spent the summer at their cottage at Ward’s Cove on Sebago Lake. Elizabeth Hillock of South Gorham had visited friends in Camden.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Looking Back: Aug. 22
Aug. 24, 1994 It’s the only one of its kind in the state of Maine. It serves the fastest-growing sport in the United States. It’s Westbrook’s new floodlighted, four-season hockey and skating rink on Lincoln Street, a $35,000 gift from the Cornelia Warren Association. The association president, William Currier, told the friendly group that gathered […]
Posted inAmerican Journal
Back to school: Saccarappa gets final touches, playground delayed
Furniture is being moved in and remaining details are being taken care of before school opens in Westbrook next week. The playground is out to bid again after initial estimates came in too high.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Letter: Town has bigger issues than a pet pig
I can’t believe that the Town Council in Gorham, traditionally a “farming town,” is debating the fate of a family who wants to keep their pet mini-pig in their yard. Let’s get real here: the family is not starting a pig farm (though pig farms do exist in farming communities), the mini-pig is a family’s […]
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Gorham Notes: Aug. 22
Crowded council field Twelve people have taken out nomination papers for three available Town Council seats in the municipal election this fall. The latest to take out papers include Town Council Chairman Benjamin Hartwell, Janet Keuch, Andrew O’Hare, Stewart McCallister and former Councilor and Vice Chairwoman Sherrie Benner. They join, as previously reported, candidates Dan […]
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