South-Gardiner News

Eighth-graders at Gardiner Regional Middle School got glimpses of life in the military about one week before Veterans Day when 20 veterans and active-duty personnel visited the school Monday, Nov.

An arrest or summons does not constitute a finding of guilt. An individual charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at criminal proceedings.

Rod Spearin clearly remembers when they hired a music teacher for Gardiner schools in 1947.

Initially "intimidating and then it became awesome" was how Mari DeSoto, described her experience as a delegate at Dirigo Girls State.

BANGOR, Maine a ' A Gardiner woman was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to three years of probation and ordered to pay nearly $1,400 in restitution for stealing money while working at a Kennebec County post office.

GARDINER : The "hand of the 'Master Gardener' directed me to this project," said Brian Trask, a former Franciscan seminarian as he described the Caring Community Garden project to the Gardiner Rotary Club.

Southern Kennebec Child Development Corporation is a nonprofit organization known for more than 30 years of nationally recognized excellence in early care and education and a strong history of building community partnerships.

GARDINER : At 3:10 p.m. Monday, a mother on Adams Street said her 20-year-old son had trashed her apartment, threatened her and then ran out of the house and into the woods carrying a jackknife.

GARDINER : To the Editor: We are writing to express how very pleased and impressed we have been with the leadership of new principal, Al Ghoreyeb, at the River View Community School in South Gardiner.

CAPITAL AREA : ELIZABETH L. BORDOWITZ was sworn in May 14, 2009, as chief executive officer of the Finance Authority of Maine .

CAPITAL AREA : Here's a look back at what was happening in the capital area more than a decade ago, taken from the pages of the Capital Weekly, April 1998: Emily Rines of South Gardiner and 14 of her University of New Hampshire classmates spent spring break building houses for poor families in Georgia with Habitat for Humanity.