KINGFIELD — A Farmington man was killed and two other Farmington men were critically injured Tuesday afternoon when their car lost traction on Route 27 and slid sideways into the path of a tractor-trailer. Seth Gordon, 28, died instantly at the scene, according to Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. Leroy Gordon, 76, the driver […]
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Auburn rolls out 150th anniversary ad campaign
AUBURN — In a video commercial released Monday, Mayor Jason Levesque pitches Auburn as a destination and a place to raise a family. The mayor walks the downtown streets and narrates over images of kayakers, a skier at Lost Valley and an Auburn classroom. At the conclusion, he throws in a tagline that he said […]
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Snowstorm brings joy to Sunday River trails
Sean Oddy of Old Orchard Beach rides the Aurora chairlift early Tuesday at Sunday River Ski Resort so he can enjoy unspoiled ski runs. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) Ski patroller Brian Denley of Bethel carves a step out of the ice leading into the partial shack at the top of Barker Mountain on Tuesday morning. (Andree […]
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Drivers take a break from the cold in Bethel
Mike Fleet, left, Dennis Wilson, Bill Vieweg, Mike Jodrey, Kenneth Cole and Doug Wilson gather for a break Tuesday morning from their winter driving jobs at the Mallard Mart in Bethel. The five men drive snowplows and deliver fuel in the area. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal)
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LePage requests stay of order to expand Medicaid
Gov. Paul LePage is continuing to fight Medicaid expansion in court, filing another motion to delay the case only five weeks before Gov.-elect Janet Mills will take over, reverse course and implement the expansion. As a result, LePage’s latest legal move may do little more than further delay access to health insurance for the 70,000 […]
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Bruce Poliquin: Recount is about fairness, not who wins or loses
Rep. Bruce Poliquin said Tuesday his request for a recount in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District race is “about making sure that the system works” following a historic ranked-choice election he portrayed as “chaotic” and confusing for voters. Though clerks in several of the 2nd District’s largest municipalities — including Lewiston, Augusta, Bangor and Waterville — […]
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Heavy snow falls in Western Maine
Arnold Jordan snow-blows his driveway early Tuesday morning on Gore Road in Greenwood after heavy snow blanketed the region. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal)
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Snowstorm knocks out power to 24,000 customers, makes roads hazardous
Wet, heavy snow hit Maine hard Tuesday morning. Even where the snowfall is lightest — mostly closer to the coast — road conditions were hazardous. “The roads are quite slick,” Margaret Curtis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, told the Portland Press Herald. “Even where there is less accumulation, it’s slow going.” […]
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Residency requirement
Now that the election is over, it is time to fix a glaring problem — candidates should be required to be residents of the districts they are running in. Jared Golden would probably have won anyway, but the fact that he won with the help of second-choice votes after Tiffany Bond — who has nothing […]
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Adult children fail to warm to stepdad of eight years
DEAR ABBY: I was married for 19 years and have three adult daughters from that marriage. I remarried eight years ago to a woman who has two adult children. My relationship with them is not good, in spite of my efforts to engage them in basic conversation. She told me recently that neither one of […]