Photographer of the Year gallery: Michael G. Seamans

A photo gallery of award-winning submissions to the National Press Photographers Association.

Gen. Farnham addresses military funding, veterans assistance in speech to Maine Legislature

The adjutant general of the Maine National Guard gave the State of the National Guard report Tuesday to a joint convention of the House and Senate in Augusta.

J.P. Devine: What we talk about now

Around us now are empty chairs once filled with those who shared our talk, touched our pained hands, felt our fears and laughed with us, and we discover the memory of them gives us more to talk about, J.P. Devine writes.

Vassalboro woman expresses anguish after ‘very sweet’ mentally disabled son dies in fire

Nicholas Blaschke, 26, whom his mother said was mentally disabled, was killed in the fire and a state police lieutenant was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation after pulling the man from the house.

Dana Wilde: Removing the scorpion-like beast from the bathroom sink

Commonly known as a house pseudoscorpion, aka Chelifer cancroides, these tiny creatures are sometimes known as book scorpions or false scorpions because they’re arachnids, Dana Wilde writes.

J.P. Devine: Mr. Isgro goes to Washington

Shocked at the paltry prices for breakfast, lunch and dinner, J.P. Devine suggests the next time the city’s mayor should “GO before you go” when visiting the nation’s capital.

J.P. Devine: 2020, a chair odyssey

The sleek, gray, maybe mauve stairlift chair has arrived in the Devine household, signaling a journey into the capricious and unknown future.

J.P. Devine: Just the way you are

Change is inevitable and may cause you to see things and people in a different light, J.P. Devine writes.

J.P. Devine: One night in Waco

A pair of true war stories about two young Americans who served their countries in different ways on cold nights in Waco and Bastogne.

Photo gallery: From city lights to Maine’s northwestern woods