Sunday, May 27, 2012
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AUGUSTA -- A disturbing memory has haunted Karen Evans since she was a patient at the Augusta Mental Health Institute in the early 1960s.
WATERVILLE -- Waterville's Colleen O'Donnell said she tends to get down after losing a set. But at the state singles tournament, feeling sorry for yourself can get you knocked out in a hurry. When O'Donnell lost the second set of her Round of 16 match to Hampden's Ashley Woodside, there was no time for moping.
Outcome Based Education, a student-centered learning philosophy measuring performance by observation and experimentation, is fine for creating round pegs for round holes.
It says a lot about a community when it chooses to save a 100-year-old playhouse, recognizing the importance of the arts as well as the historic structures in their community, and is able to raise $4 million for the project. We were blessed to attend the “Encore Performance” of the refurbished Waterville Opera House and were more than impressed by the building improvements, the performances and th...
Nate Taczli power washes one of the monuments in the Hallowell Cemetery on Friday morning. He and another Masciadri Monuments employee were cleaning stones in the cemetery located on Water Street.
Dr. Laurel Coleman works directly with patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease, trying to improve lives one at a time.
Mainers are often described as being risk-averse, conditioned by thin soils, frigid winters, Colonial-era Indian wars, and a century and a half of economic privation to work hard and stretch what little we've got as far as we can.
Vigue turns ambition to an East-West Highway
AUGUSTA -- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland will top the list of speakers at next weekend's Democratic State Convention in Augusta, which is expected to draw 1,500 delegates and comes just a little more than a week before the state legislative and congressional primaries.
A state representative and a town selectman are vying for the chance to be the Republican candidate in the race for the state Senate District 20.
Below is a list of candidates and races for the upcoming primary election in June.
They were there. They were very much there. They were like a great forest of tall trees that filled the space around our childhoods. They made us chocolate sodas and filled our gas tanks, sold us insurance, bagged our groceries, and healed our wounds. They were so tall, both in body and spirit, that they blocked the cold winds and the harsh suns of childhood from us. And then they were gone.
KENTS HILL -- Just minutes before he graduated from Kents Hill School, Zach Boylan struggled to express what the experience has meant to him.
WINSLOW -- As the nation goes, so goes Winslow.
It wasn't the best of weeks for the Maine Heritage Policy Center.
KENNEBEC VALLEY ATHLETIC CONFERENCE TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Watson reaches goals at meet
BATH -- Taylor Watson wanted to make an impact at the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B meet Saturday, and he wanted to bring some impressive seed times with him to the C ...
TRAVELIN' MAINE(RS): Amazing renovations, performances at the Waterville Opera House
It says a lot about a community when it chooses to save a 100-year-old playhouse, recognizing the importance of the arts as well as the historic structures in their community, and ...
STILL LIFE: Fresh reminder
Louie and Linda Huard plant fresh flowers and plants at Veterans’ Memorial Park in Waterville Saturday.
The forgotten dead
The AMHI Cemetery Project is raising money to build a memorial to Augusta Mental Health Institute’s lost souls – dignifying the thousands of patients who died in its long history a ...
Facebook dilemma: Buy, sell or hold?
Accusations following Facebook's public debut have only reinforced suspicions that Wall Street is stacked against the small investor.
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