CHARLESTOWN, Mass. — A Hampden Academy graduate assumed command of the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat during a ceremony on Friday. Cmdr. Sean Kearns assumed command of the USS Constitution during a change of command ceremony aboard the ship at the Charlestown Navy Yard on Friday morning. Kearns, a 1987 graduate of Hampden Academy, became the […]
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Hampden man takes command of U.S.S. Constitution
BOSTON (AP) — The U.S.S. Constitution’s new commander is another native New Englander. Cmdr. Sean Kearns was handed command of the historic warship docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston in a rainy onboard change-of-command ceremony Friday morning. Kearns, from Hampden, Maine, takes over from Cmdr. Matt Bonner, a Meredith, N.H., native who is […]
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Furloughs for Department of Defense civilian employees to begin
BATH — Nearly 2,100 civilian Department of Defense workers in Maine will begin furloughs on July 8, losing one day of pay a week for 11 weeks as a result of congressionally mandated across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration. In Bath, 200 civilian employees at Bath Iron Works will be affected, according to spokeswoman Kristin […]