WOOLWICH — A Woolwich man who crashed his pickup truck into a tree on Murphy’s Corner Road near his home Thursday allegedly left the roadway after falling asleep, according to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff ’s Department. The crash was reported at 3:20 p.m. Chief Deputy Brett Strout said Stephen Hammond, 70, of 321 Murphy’s Corner Road, […]
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U.S. economy adds 120K jobs, jobless rate at 8.2%
WASHINGTON — Employers pulled back sharply on hiring last month, a reminder that the U.S. economy may not be growing fast enough to sustain robust job growth. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work. The Labor Department says the economy added 120,000 jobs in March, down from more than 200,000 […]
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Senate passes school reform
AUGUSTA — After a last-minute amendment, members of the Maine Senate on Thursday went against their House counterparts and voted for a standards based education bill. LD 1422 was first discussed at length, amended considerably and then approved unanimously several weeks ago by the Education Committee. The measure directs the Department of Education to develop a […]
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Filling a $3M chasm
BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick School Department is considering cuts to its guidance counseling department as part of the answer to closing a nearly $3 million budget gap. Declining enrollment is among the factors triggering reduced state and federal subsidies. The move would eliminate the equivalent of one halftime employee at Brunswick Junior High School (BJHS) and […]
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Blaze destroys home
TOPSHAM — Flames consumed a prominent colonial home on Lewiston Road on Thursday afternoon, drawing some 60 firefighters from eight area departments to quell the blaze. The Topsham Fire Department responded just before 1:30 p.m. Thursday to the three-story home at 1133 Lewiston Road (Route 196), where the fire had apparently ignited on a porch, Topsham […]
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Fire ravages Topsham home
TOPSHAM — Flames consumed a prominent colonial home on Lewiston Road on Thursday afternoon, drawing some 60 firefighters from eight area departments to quell the blaze. The Topsham Fire Department responded just before 1:30 p.m. Thursday to the three-story home at 1133 Lewiston Road, where the fire had apparently ignited on a porch, Topsham Fire […]
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More job seekers hearing ‘What’s your Facebook password?’
SEATTLE — When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password. Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer […]
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THIS WEEK IN THE CIVIL WAR
Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan has sent out the first forces of his vast army from Fort Monroe on the Virginia coast as he ramps up his long-awaited Virginia Peninsula campaign. Soon, those Union troops encounter a small Confederate army at Yorktown, dug in behind the Warwick River. Confederate Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder […]
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The Mapping Crowd
SAN FRANCISCO — When Benjamin Gleitzman moved from New York to the San Francisco Bay area, he used a talking turn-by-turn driving app to guide him across the country. In the middle of Wyoming, the voice told him to turn left where there was no road. Rather than complain to the maker of the app, called […]