In the issue’s Margaret Chase Smith Essay, transplanted Mainer and college student Matthew Bourque reflects on the strength and character of Maine’s political tradition.
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Mainely Country Band performing at Riverfront Park
The band will play on Aug. 8 at 6:30 p.m.
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Orono council to continue marijuana establishment talks
The Orono Town Council will continue its long review of local regulation of marijuana establishments, with the possibility of the issue going to referendum early next year.
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Legionnaires’ disease bacteria found in Orono-Veazie water
The water remains safe to drink and use, however, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Ten Bucks Theatre Company presenting ‘Richard III’
This production is transposed some five hundred years forward, and a universe over, to the gangster movies of the 1990s, in a sort of Shakespeare – Tarantino ‘collaboration’.
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OTELCO wins $260K ConnectME grant to expand Alton fiber broadband
The company won a $260,000 ConnectME Authority grant that will allow completion of a high-speed fiber optic broadband network to unserved residents of Alton.
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Bilingual signage — English and Penobscot — now at UMaine
The project, now in its first phase with the installation of 10 signs across campus and internal signage throughout the halls of UMaine’s Wabanaki Center, developed from conversations between the UMaine Wabanaki Center and Wabanaki communities in Maine over the last few years regarding the relative invisibility of Indigenous people, places, history and languages at the university, and the specific need for Penobscot language signage on the Orono campus.
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Greenbush cracking down on junkyards
Greenbush is in the midst of a townwide crackdown on junkyards and other properties with excessive debris.
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Changes to Maine’s fish and game laws
This session, lawmakers made some changes that will create more opportunities for people to hunt and fish safely and responsibly in Maine.
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August star shows at the Emera Astronomy Center
There will be numerous shows on stars, black holes, the universe and more.