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  • North Pond Hermit discovered arrested after 27 years in Maine woods

    Christopher Knight told police he had lived undetected in a tent in the woods for 27 years, spoke with another person only once in that time, and did not know what he looked ...

  • Survivor of B-52 crash meets rescuer 50 years later

    One of the two survivors of a B-52 bomber crash met the man who rescued him for the first time since the crash 50 years ago. On Saturday, Gerald Adler, a retired Air Force captain, embraced former medic Eugene Slabinski, who dropped from a helicopter in January of 1963 to rescue the two survivors in five feet of snow in the wilderness of northern ...

  • Maine man held after fires chase

    A Minot man faces charges of allegedly burning down his home and a mobile home belonging to his estranged wife, then leading police in a high-speed car chase on ...

  • Maine nursing homes drug-free dementia treatment a model

    mhhetling@mainetoday.com MaineToday Media WATERVILLE - When Vicki Dyer became the program administrator for the newly opened 32-bed dementia ward at Lakewood nursing home in 2006, she wasn't happy with the amount of suffering she ...

  • Coming home Maine Olympians give back in the offseason

    Select images available for purchase in theMaine Today Photo Store Wescott is the face of snowboardcross, the two-time reigning Olympic gold medalist. Clukey, a 2010 U.S. Olympian, finished last winter ranked sixth in the world in luge. They are regarded as Maine's best hopes to compete in the next Winter Olympics, to be held next February in Sochi, Russia. They could live and train ...


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Blue Crush

In the ideal surfer movie, the surfer hero's main quest in life is to find some transcendental spiritual high that can only be attained while riding the wavesthink Patrick Swayze's adrenaline-junkie shaman in Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break (1991). In Blue Crush, however, the surfer hero just want to score a sponsor. It foregoes the mythical for the practical. ...

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  • Maine poised for historic transition to natural gas

    tturkel@mainetoday.com Staff Writer Maine may be on the verge of a rapid, historic shift from oil to natural gas as a source of energy for generating electricity and heating homes and ...

  • Time people spend in shelters in Maine increases data show

    - Kristopher Hartford, 19, and Tatiana Nirza, 17, said they were lucky to get beds in the homeless shelter just two days after they called. They've been living at the shelter for about three weeks with their 7-month-old son, Kayden, because the income from Hartford's part-time job at a fast-food restaurant isn't enough to support them. Dean Lachance, executive director of Bread ...

  • EMOTIONAL REUNIONSurvivor Rescuer Meet Up At Maine B-52 Crash Site

    Eugene Slabinski, left, 83, of Hanover Township, Pa., sits with Gerald Alder, 81, of Davis, Calif., in Greenville, Maine, at a 50th anniversary remembrance of a B-52 crash in January 1963 on Elephant Mountain, Maine. Slabinski, an Air Force medic, dropped from a helicopter to rescue Adler, one of two survivors of the crash. Seven other crew members ...

  • Maine senators oppose border-crossing fees

    U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, and independent Sen. Angus King, along with a bipartisan group of other senators, sent a letter Friday expressing their concerns about the Department of Homeland Security's plan to study the feasibility of imposing a border crossing fee along the ...

  • Graduates gain a love of Maine

    Select images available for purchase in theMaine Today Photo Store He was watching the youngest of his three children, who all went to Maine colleges, walk across the stage Saturday at Bowdoin College to collect his diploma. "He has had a tremendous experience," said Googins. With his son, E.J., a math and computer science major, headed for a job in research and development at the ...

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