Sebasticook to the sea: Alewives' perilous lives crucial to ecosystem, economy

Like the alewives themselves, the money traded for the fish is passed up and down the Sebasticook River and all along Maine's coast.

Pre-K programs grow, even as school districts make difficult cuts

Even as school officials have made cuts elsewhere and overall enrollment has declined by 3.6 percent since 2009-10, the number of children enrolled in pre-kindergarten in eight Augusta-area school districts has risen 11.5 percent, from 486 in 2009-10 to 542 this year.

Gov. LePage silenced in visit to panel

His surprise request to speak is rebuffed in order to keep ‘politics’ out of talks to deal with his MaineCare cutoff warning.

Official: 2nd person killed by Oklahoma tornado

One of several tornadoes that touched down in parts of the nation's midsection on Sunday leveled a mobile home park in Oklahoma.

RSU 18 towns to vote Tuesday on budget

The Regional School Unit 18 budget of $32,281,753 will be put before residents on Tuesday at the polls in the district’s five towns — Belgrade, China, Oakland, Rome and Sidney, with polls open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in each town.

Maine gas prices rise more than 3 cents

Prices are now 21 cents per gallon lower than at the same time last year and a little more than a penny higher than a month ago.

Fallen heroes honored at Waterville wreath-laying Sunday

About 50 veterans, firefighters, police officers, Knights of Columbus, Elks and others turned out for a wreath-laying ceremony in Waterville Sunday, during which uniformed officials laid wreaths at stones representing their respective groups.

Four arrested following twin fracases in downtown Waterville Sunday

Erica Ricker, 29; Heather Spaulding, 28; Marcella Coffin, 23; and Lacey Wilson, 27, all of Waterville, were charged with disorderly conduct fighting Sunday, following two disturbances.

Burgeoning Bull Moose plans Waterville expansion to former Mr. Paperback digs

The Bull Moose store at Elm Plaza in Waterville is bursting at the seams and plans to expand this summer into the former Mr. Paperback space next door.

From a stranger's kindness, a better world is in our ken

A stranger's gesture reminds me that in a world where so many bad things happen every day, there are people who are good and thoughtful and kind.

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