While recycling in Maine is in the dumps with a tough market and a need for recycling education, there’s a bright spot: Maine’s 40-year-old bottle bill. The bin collecting bottles and cans is in many Maine kitchens. Mainers have been paying deposits and religiously returning cans and bottles for nickel or 15-cent paybacks since 1978. “It’s […]
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Junior hockey: Power play lifts Thunder over the Junior Monarchs
In midst of a three-game losing streak, the Twin City Thunder pulled off one of their biggest wins of the season by taking down the first-place team in the USPHL’s New England Division. The Thuder def3eated the New Hampshire Junior Monarchs 2-1 on Saturday afternoon at Tri-Town Arena in Hooksett, New Hampshire. “It was a […]
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Class B field hockey championship
Gardiner’s Margaret Bell and York’s Hannah Gennaro fight for possession durinng the Class B field hockey state final on Saturday at Deering. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald) Madelin Walker watched the scoreboard clock as it counted down the final seconds of the Class B field hockey state championship game. “I was watching, 3 … 2 … […]
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Boys’ soccer: Chemistry key to Lewiston’s title defense
Suab Nur of Lewiston leads the Lewiston celebration after the Blue Devils’ victory over Gorham in the Class A state soccer championship game Saturday in Bath. (Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald) After the Boston Red Sox won the 2013 World Series, second baseman Dustin Pedroia said repeating as champions is “the toughest thing to do in […]
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High winds down trees in Oxford County
PARIS — High winds brought down trees along several roads in Oxford County on Saturday afternoon. South Paris Fire and Rescue responded to several locations where fallen trees had blocked roads, including Route 117 and King’s Hill Road. According to South Paris Fire, barricades were set up, but motorists were driving around them. As of […]
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Marijuana storefronts: Coming to a corner near you?
AUBURN — John Morrison opened Port City Relief in a former gun shop in April, two doors down from the Rollodrome. The interior is sleek black and gray, with a tall cafe table in one corner and two long cases filled with glass containers neatly labeled with offbeat names such as Oil Spill and Mimosa […]
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Class C field hockey state championship: Ramblers claim elusive state championship
Winthrop celebrates its win over Spruce Mountain in the Class C field hockey state championship Saturday at Deering High School in Portland. (Jill Brady/Portland Press Herald) PORTLAND — Last year the Winthrop Ramblers felt the agony of the defeat after a state final loss to St. Dominic Academy in overtime. In 2018, they experienced the […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Deer camps create a fellowship that's tough to match
It’s only one five-letter word followed by an exclamation point, but most military air crewmen hope they never hear it or have to say it: “Eject! Eject! Eject!” The next sounds heard by Capt. Vernon Burke and 2nd Lt. Leroy Vestar most likely were the rush of fast-moving air and the welcome pop of a […]
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Daylight saving time is unpopular. Here are the countries trying to ditch it.
Anyone trying to make an international call this weekend would be forgiven for getting a little mixed up. Daylight saving time ends in the United States on Sunday, bumping the clocks back an hour. The change happened in Europe a week earlier, meaning the time difference between the continents was momentarily smaller. It’s another confusing […]
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Maine’s community service commission elects officers
AUGUSTA — The Maine Commission for Community Service, the state commission that oversees AmeriCorps and other volunteer service grants in Maine, has a new board leadership team. F. Celeste Branham, vice president of Student Services at the University of Maine Farmington and a Brunswick resident, began her two-year term as chairwoman Sept. 20. She was appointed […]