Nineteen-year-old goaltender Travis Fullerton is back home in Canada, sent home by the Maineiacs following his arrest Sunday on a charge of operating under the influence.He is, without question, innocent until proven guilty.However, the Maineiacs management does not tolerate what it perceives as behavior harmful to the team and released the backup goalie, a goalie […]

Quenten Clark marks 10 years as SAD 58’s superintendent of schools this month. A decade of service as a school superintendent in Maine these days is notable and newsworthy.Clark took the helm of the northern Franklin County district in a hurry and at a time when the district was fraught with controversy and conflict.His first […]

Last weekend, Brett Matthews’ friends and family held a fundraiser at Warden’s Bar & Grill in Lewiston. They wanted to help pay his legal costs as he defends himself against a criminal charge of desecration of a place of worship and a civil rights complaint stemming from an incident at a local mosque on July […]

Last week, Auburn City Manager Pat Finnigan said that she and other city leaders have “talked about doing an overview about Freedom of Access rules for some time, but we’ve always had other, more pressing, items.”What is more pressing than public access to its government? Of ensuring that the public is included in matters that […]

With the Cellar Door closing down, Lewiston Police Chief Bill Welch has been meeting with bar owners to ensure the problems of noise and unruly patrons experienced at one club in Auburn won’t be traveling across the Androscoggin. Police and Lewiston’s City Council just aren’t willing to let that happen.Good.Carmine Cartonio, who owns Lewiston’s Club […]

Hello? Germany calling.Hello? CBS calling from Manhattan.Hello? The Associated Press calling.Hello? Drudge on the line here.Was it a loup-garou? A Chupacabra? Wolf-hybrid? Or a chow gone feral?We don’t know. And the Warden Service seems oddly alone in its disinterest in the strange-looking animal killed in Turner over the weekend.“Everybody is mad because the game wardens […]

On Wednesday next week, we will be subject to all kinds of new laws.There’s a lot of good stuff, including Jessica’s Law, which mandates jail time for people convicted of sex crimes against children under 12. There’s also Tina’s Law, which mandates jail time for habitual offenders who drive on a suspended license.State workers get […]

Irene Douglas died Monday, 22 days after she fell off the back of a motorcycle in Auburn.She was 36 years old.In high school in Portland, Irene was a star athlete. A runner, she received an award from Joan Benoit-Samuelson for her achievement in the sport.She was married to James Douglas and had four children. She […]

A Lewiston landlord called us Monday to suggest that we ought to consider the ramifications of putting bad news on the front page. That, perhaps, too much news about tension downtown was actually making the tension worse.It was just too much bad news.He was referring, specifically, to the Sunday story marking the five-year anniversary of […]

If young men need another reason to go to college – and that does seem to be the case – they need look no further: they may need it to find a girlfriend or wife.Educators in Maine have been perplexed and concerned by two diverging trend lines: Girls are increasingly getting higher educations and boys […]