Aaron Mick must pass a test on Maine laws within a year to be a police chief in Maine.
2019
Hartford-Sumner school gets new playground
Members of the Hartford-Sumner Elementary School worked throughout the year to raise funds for new playground equipment for their school along with the RSU 10 district.
Judgment grants $3.5 million to Monmouth man’s family over 2014 fatality
Philip M. Coward, 30, died after a load of rebar fell from a forklift at Mid-Maine Foundations Inc., on Howard Road in Monmouth on May 21, 2014.
Maine home sales set a record in 2018, and they’re not far off the pace this year
Through August, the total number of sales was less than 1% below the first eight months of 2018 – the state’s best sales year ever.
Mills names members of new Maine council on climate change
The 39-member panel will advise the state on meeting ambitious goals laid out by the governor and endorsed by the Legislature.
North America has lost nearly 30% of its birds in 50 years, experts find
Scientists blame loss of habitat, pesticides, light pollution and even cats.
Hannaford will move to restrict ‘chemicals of concern’ in products, packaging
The action comes nearly 2 years after a Portland-based environmental health group gave the supermarket chain an ‘F’ for failing to announce policies to ensure the chemical safety of its products.
As attitudes, laws around working mothers evolve, BIW installs lactation facilities
To be in compliance with Maine state law, an employer must provide a space, other than a bathroom, for nursing mothers to express breast milk for up to 3 years after childbirth.
Huntress, Thurber named CMCC women’s basketball captains
AUBURN — Central Maine Community College women’s basketball coach Andrew Morong recently announced Kristen Huntress and Natalie Thurber as team captains for the 2019-20 season. Both Huntress and Thurber were pivotal members of the 2018 national finalist and 2019 national championship teams. Natalie Thurber , of Wells and Wells High School, was selected to the […]
Jay man arrested in shooting of Livermore Falls teen
Avery Teehan, 22, is charged in a confrontation behind Central Plaza in Livermore Falls.