http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ en-us econrad@centralmaine.com 2008-07-18T14:24:06-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/030469.html In case you missed it, reporter Susan Cover had a really unusual story in today's newspapers (A1 of Kennebec Journal; B1 of Morning Sentinel). In... 30469@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ News mix 2008-07-18T14:24:06-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/030206.html Different kind of topic today. I was at the KMart on Western Avenue in Augusta last week and, to me, the place looked very different.... 30206@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ Maine news 2008-07-14T09:40:04-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/029954.html Last Sunday, we published a lengthy investigative report by staffer Meghan Malloy that looked into an alleged puppy mill that was operating in Somerville, and... 29954@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ Freedom of Access 2008-07-08T16:39:54-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/029667.html The winter of 2008-09 will be brutal for many Mainers financially. A combination of record-high heating-oil and other energy costs and a tough economy, in... 29667@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ Special projects 2008-06-30T15:16:25-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/029547.html My daughters and I made our twice-annual pilgrimmage to central Pennsylvania last (long) weekend, to see my parents, sisters and my nieces and nephews. It's... 29547@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ comments 2008-06-26T13:31:03-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/029161.html Some of our bigger "enterprise" efforts -- major stories, projects or series -- coming up in the next few weeks will be about alternative energy,... 29161@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ 2008-06-19T10:53:40-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/028988.html Readers: I wrote a column for the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel Monday about our errors and corrections, and what we're doing to track and... 28988@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ 2008-06-16T16:50:28-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/028860.html The Boston Celtics are on the brink of another NBA championship and they have one man to thank: Kevin McHale. The former Celts' great, who... 28860@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ Sports 2008-06-13T14:46:56-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/028475.html We've received a number of inquiries in the past week or so about how the Guerrette family is doing after the May 27 home invasion... 28475@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ 2008-06-09T11:17:33-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/028230.html So much for one of my rare stabs at making political predictions. A few months ago, after Barack Obama had a particularly strong week and... 28230@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ 2008-06-04T18:01:16-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/028061.html That's what a friend said to me at church Sunday morning. That she'd read that high heating-oil, gasoline and other energy costs will put northern... 28061@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ 2008-06-02T11:35:59-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/027936.html We launch our third, "micro-local" Web site this Sunday, June 1, serving the small and beautiful town of Wayne. The site is accessible through our... 27936@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ Web sites 2008-05-30T10:37:54-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/027814.html The longer I am here (now 16 months on the job as executive editor), the more I appreciate our Sports staff and its commitment to... 27814@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ 2008-05-28T12:44:44-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/027610.html Want to guess where this one will be? We launched our first "micro-local" Web site, ChinaSentinel.com, in December 2007. It was an attempt to do... 27610@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ 2008-05-23T16:36:07-05:00 http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/027433.html I used to think my younger sister had a "safe" job. She's a radiology technician at a pretty big hospital. We all need hospitals, X-rays... 27433@http://centralmaine.mainetoday.com/blogs/conrad/ 2008-05-21T10:51:19-05:00