Matthew Simmons, who founded the Ocean Energy Institute and embraced Maine, dies unexpectedly.

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — Naomi Campbell told Mia Farrow that she received a “huge diamond” from the former president of Liberia, the actress said from the witness stand Monday, contradicting the model’s testimony that she didn’t know the value of the gift from accused war criminal Charles Taylor. The prosecution called Farrow, and Campbell’s former agent, […]

LOS ANGELES — There are Barbra Streisand fans, and then there’s Jennifer Aniston. Aniston re-creates iconic portraits of Streisand in a lavish Mark Seliger photo spread in the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar. The magazine is on newsstands this week. “The shoot was just fun,” the 41-year-old actress said Saturday while promoting her new film, […]

FAIRFIELD — A federal education official with Maine ties has been tapped to oversee the Good Will-Hinckley Home for Boys & Girls, the organization’s board of directors said in a release today.

This week At 7 p.m. Saturday, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion will play a benefit concert for Ever After Mustang Rescue at Kennebunk Town Hall, 1 Summer St. Tickets cost $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Kennebunk singer-songwriter Jennifer Comeau will open the show. A Biddeford-based nonprofit organization, Ever After Mustang Rescue […]

Beach Glass Transitions helps people navigate the emotion-charged world of elder care.

The paper reported on July 28 (“Permit clears way for CMP to start power grid update”) that Central Maine Power Co. has received its final federal permit to begin working on the $1.4 billion upgrade to its transmission system. The paper failed to mention that this environmentally and financially expensive project wouldn’t be necessary were […]

Since the two kayakers were lost off Ram Island, I have looked at most of the safety advice available on the Internet. There are so many items that potential users of that information may tire of reading those long lists of things that probably won’t happen. Yet the following three items that I think are […]

WESTBROOK – Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook is known for its dairy products. But now the farm on County Road also hopes to make a name for itself as a producer of fresh tomatoes grown year-round in a 20-acre greenhouse. The hydroponic vine-cluster tomatoes Smiling Hill would grow would be red and ripe when they […]

Council OKs repairs to Davan pool, library boiler. WESTBROOK – The Davan Swimming Pool at the former Wescott Junior High School will likely be shut down for repairs later this month. In Monday’s first of two required readings, the Westbrook City Council in a 6-0 vote (Dotty Aube absent) favored spending $49,740 for pool repairs […]