Tuesday May 14 | Kennebec Journal
Portland 4th-graders raise, release salmon
The students at Longfellow Elementary School in Portland raised salmon eggs in class and released the fish into a stream near Highland Lake in Westbrook as part of the "Fish Friends" program.
LePage vetoes bill giving local school boards authority to determine where superintendent lives
Gov. Paul LePage on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have given school boards the authority to decide whether their superintendents should be required to live in the communities where they work.
Murdered Falmouth mother was trying to have her son committed at time of death
Shirley Leighton, of Falmouth, was walking to the telephone Friday, intending to call a psychiatric facility in Westbrook to have her son Andrew committed, when he shot her in the back of the head with a gun he had bought the day before, according to a Maine State Police affidavit.
Rockport Dance Conservatory Returns from Competition
Rockport Dance Conservatory returned with great results from their performances in the Step Up 2 Dance Competition held May 4th & 5th in Westbrook, Maine.
Rumford board learns how paper mill is assessed, hears pitch for zip line park
Rumford attorney and zip line park proponent Thomas Carey pitches a last-minute presentation to selectmen Thursday night for an article on the annual town meeting warrant.
Nezinscot Guild in Turner closes
Executive Director Dan O'Shea said the small business lost too much money over the past three years, including $180,000 in funding from the state, and it could not afford to continue.
Hymn writer Charlotte Elliott wrote "Just As I Am" in 1834, while sick and miserable and feeling useless at home in Brighton, England.
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Defense attorney in Portland murder case says evidence against Pratt questionable
NY man returned to Maine to face murder charge
A New York City man charged with killing a Maine woman and leaving her body in a vehicle in a Portland motel parking lot is back in Maine.
Memorial Bridge illumination advances
Work started this week to illuminate the Memorial Bridge, after $80,000 was transferred to a new trust set up by the city of Portsmouth for the project.
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