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PublishedApril 2, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 2
April 2, 1865: On the day he becomes a brevetted Army brigadier general, Col. Thomas W. Hyde (1841-1899) of Bath leads an assault force at the tip of a wedge of Union troops that breaks through the Confederate defenses at Petersburg, Virginia, during the Civil War’s Third Battle of Petersburg. This successful gambit, following 10 […]
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PublishedApril 1, 2020
Woman charged in Owls Head death expected to plead guilty to murder
Sarah Richard is accused of beating and strangling 83-year-old Helen Carver.
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PublishedApril 1, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 1
April 1, 1968: Dow Air Force Base in Bangor officially closes. The city of Bangor obtains the airfield and reopens it the following year as Bangor International Airport. Bangor had allocated $75,000 for development of the base in 1940. The Maine Military Defense Commission funded the purchase of the base’s land. With construction of what […]
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PublishedMarch 31, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 31
March 31, 1907: An irritated President Theodore Roosevelt reluctantly accepts the resignation of West Gardiner native John Frank Stevens (1853-1943) as chief engineer on one of the 20th century’s most challenging engineering projects – construction of the Panama Canal. Stevens, who came on board when the project already was underway and plagued with problems, engineered major […]
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PublishedMarch 30, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 30
March 30, 1937: The Maine Legislature adopts Roger Vinton Snow’s “State of Maine Song” as the official state song. Snow (1890-1953), a probate and corporate lawyer and frequent moderator of Falmouth town meetings, submitted the song for a 1931 competition sponsored by the Maine Publicity Bureau, which he won. Cressey and Allen, of Portland, published the […]
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PublishedMarch 29, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 29
March 29, 1602: The Concord, a small vessel called a bark, sails from Falmouth, England, to establish a colony in North America. On May 14, five years before the establishment of the permanent English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, it anchors in what is now York Harbor after cruising along Maine’s coast from Cape Elizabeth. The ship, […]
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PublishedMarch 28, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 28
March 28, 2006: Caspar Weinberger, U.S. secretary of defense for seven years under President Ronald Reagan, dies at age 88 at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor from pneumonia complications. In the Reagan administration, Weinberger took the lead in directing a rollback strategy against Soviet communism. He was indicted in the Iran-Contra scandal, involving a violation […]
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PublishedMarch 27, 2020
Portland clinic to resume services, after 2-week closure for quarantine
The India Street Public Health Center, which provides a needle exchange and other services, closed after staffers were exposed to a person with COVID-19.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 27
March 27, 1942: A day after setting off eastward from Casco Bay, the U.S. Navy’s Task Force 39 plows through a heavy sea off Nova Scotia in the North Atlantic, heading for Scotland’s Orkney Islands to reinforce the Home Guard while the British navy participates in a World War II invasion of Madagascar, then under the […]
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PublishedMarch 26, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 26
March 26, 2009: Old Town resident Matthew Cushing, 22, is sentenced to life in prison for stabbing his mother, his stepfather and his half brother to death at their home in Old Orchard Beach and setting their house on fire to cover his tracks. The court sentences him to three life terms for the murder […]
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