A Portland-based organization that advocates for the disabled has named a new chief executive. Goodwill Northern New England’s board of directors named Richard J. Cantz as president and CEO of the not-for-profit organization that serves Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. He replaces Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who will continue to serve Goodwill as a special adviser. […]
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Student says her Somali-speaking family was mistreated at Dunkin' Donuts
PORTLAND — A Dunkin’ Donuts store owner met Wednesday with a Portland college student and activist who called out the business on social media after a store employee refused to serve her Somali-speaking family and then called police following an argument in the drive-thru lane. Hamdia Ahmed, 20, said she felt that the employee discriminated […]
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Replenishing the pumpkins
Martha Holbrook restocks her pumpkin stand on Holbrook Road in Minot on Wednesday. Holbrook’s father-in-law, Erland “Sam” Holbrook, moved the Hersey Hill one-room schoolhouse to Holbrook Road in 1968 and sold vegetables inside the school. The family sells pumpkins there on the honor system. “The pumpkins are more of a hobby than anything else,” Holbrook […]
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Fire damages Turner home on Sandy Bottom Road
Firefighters from Minot, left, and Buckfield look for hot spots at a home that caught on fire in Turner on Wednesday. Greene, Leeds, Auburn, Minot and Buckfield fire departments assisted Turner at the fire on Sandy Bottom Road. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)
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Wilton Transfer Station to reopen Thursday
WILTON — The Transfer Station will reopen Thursday, Town Manager Rhonda Irish said in an email Wednesday night. High winds toppled trees and snapped poles Monday night and Tuesday morning, forcing the station to close Tuesday and Wednesday to clean up the debris and get electrical service back. Power was restored at 4 p.m. Wednesday […]
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Report challenges environmental benefits of CMP project
Hours before a much-anticipated public hearing on the merits of a new transmission line through western Maine, an analysis released Wednesday by environmental and renewable energy interests concluded that the New England Clean Energy Connect project would not reduce carbon pollution and therefore do nothing to offset climate change. The analysis claims the line would […]
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Canada now world's largest legal marijuana marketplace
TORONTO (AP) — Ian Power was among the first to buy legal recreational marijuana in Canada but he has no plans to smoke it. He plans to frame it. Canada became the largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace as sales began early Wednesday in Newfoundland. Power was first in line at a store […]
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Candidate for governor Alan Caron releases economic plan
Independent gubernatorial candidate Alan Caron held a series of press conferences Tuesday touting smaller government, affordable healthcare, a 30-year energy independence plan and major bonding for expanded broadband as part of an eight-point economic plan. Also on Caron’s list – welcoming immigrants, shrinking the Legislature to 100 members and limiting the number of bills submitted, […]
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USM professor who offered students credit to protest Sen. Collins barred from teaching
A retired University of Southern Maine professor has been barred from teaching in the UMaine system after she offered students a “pop-up” course for credit to take a bus to Washington, D.C., with demonstrators urging Sen. Susan Collins to oppose confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. “We are embarrassed by and apologize for the […]
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Acacia Lodge to hold second craft fair, serve food
DURHAM — The second Masonic Craft and Vendors Fair from 8a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Acacia Lodge, Route 136 across from Durham River Park. This is a rain or shine event. There will be breakfast and lunch served as well as a silent auction ending at 1 p.m.