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Voters to consider adopting budget committee
LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen voted Tuesday to put a question on the annual town meeting ballot asking voters if the town should adopt a Budget Committee consisting of a nine member board appointed by the select board. The Budget Committee is currently an ad-hoc committee of the Board of Selectmen and at this time has […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Suspect’s lawyer says shooting was accidental
ALFRED — A lawyer for a 39-year-old Maine man charged with murder in the fatal shooting of his wife says the shooting was an accident. David Van Dyke told WMTW-TV that Patrick Dapolito told him that a gun accidentally discharged and the bullet struck his wife, 30-year-old Kelly Winslow-Dapolito, in the head on March 16 […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Maine’s Baldacci meets with Bumble Bee CEO at cannery
PROSPECT HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Gov. John Baldacci is meeting with the top executive of Bumble Bee Foods to discuss potential future uses for the company’s sardine cannery in eastern Maine that is slated to close next month. The governor and CEO Chris Lischewski planned to meet Friday morning at the 100-year-old plant in Prospect […]
Posted inNews, sj-web
Maine man’s taped confession played at trial
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine (AP) — A 54-year-old man charged with killing his sister told police in a taped interview that he was at a “point of no return” at the time of the killing, but that he didn’t follow through on plans to also kill himself. Closing arguments are expected Friday in the jury-waived murder trial […]
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UN report: Much of Somalia’s food aid diverted
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Up to half the food aid intended for the millions of hungry people in Somalia is being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local U.N. workers, according to a U.N. Security Council report. The report blames the problem on improper food distribution in the Horn of Africa nation, which […]
Posted inFranklin, sj-web
Fayette man charged with OUI in Mass. crash
WIMINGTON, Mass. — A 60-year-old Fayette man faces an operating under the influence charge after a two-car crash on I-93 Tuesday, according to a report in the Boston Globe. According to the report the Massachussets State Police said the crash occurred shortly before 6 a.m. north of the Route 62 exit in Wilmington. Police said […]
Posted inEncore, sj-web
Upcoming exhibits
AUBURN: “Faces of Literacy: Voices of Courage” will be featured through Dec. 19 at the Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St. 333-6640 AUGUSTA: 60 photographs depicting Mainers playing and having fun at state fairs and festivals will be featured through Dec. 31 at the Maine State Museum, State House Complex. Gallery hours: 8:30 a.m. to […]
Posted inEncore, sj-web
Upcoming exhibits
AUBURN: “Faces of Literacy: Voices of Courage” will be featured through Dec. 19 at the Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St. 333-6640 AUGUSTA: 60 photographs depicting Mainers playing and having fun at state fairs and festivals will be featured through Dec. 31 at the Maine State Museum, State House Complex. Gallery hours: 8:30 a.m. to […]