Sydney Whitelaw, 34, was arrested for criminal speed and eluding an officer.
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Posted inBethel, Oxford Hills, The Bethel Citizen
Oxford Hills High School senior will teach the science of sap at Swain’s Sugar House in Bethel
Megan Millett plans to help visitors better understand the science of why the sap runs and the process of how to boil it into maple syrup,
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Posted inBusiness, Maine
DOGE cuts stall Maine seafood business trying to go green
Commercial fishermen and seafood businesses planned on federal funding to help with things like new engines and refrigeration systems. Those commitments are now frozen.
Posted inBethel, Business, News, The Bethel Citizen
Bethel’s Olivia Cuneo offers coffee, conversation from a converted horse cart
Cuneo said she’s had many heart-to heart conversations with her regulars, whose drink orders she remembers before their names.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Maine lawmakers endorse nominees to state’s high, superior courts
The Senate will have a final vote on Julia Lipez’s nomination to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and Darcie McElwee’s to the Superior Court.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics, Schools & Education, Sports
In second investigation, Trump again finds Maine in violation of Title IX over transgender policy
Meanwhile, the Maine Principals’ Association has challenged the Trump administration’s findings from a separate federal investigation into the body’s rules regarding transgender athletes.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News, Schools & Education
Federal funding cuts a threat to 21st Century program at Lewiston schools
The program has supported students for more than a decade with academic tutoring and enrichment opportunities.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Politics
Jobs for Maine prisoners are shifting online. The state wants to charge for the tech.
Lawmakers have started questioning what the current economy inside Maine’s prisons looks like since the Department of Corrections proposed some new fees for its inmates.
Posted inBusiness, Leslie Bridgers, Maine
If tourists boycott Maine, let’s Make Summer Great Again — for us
We can fill in the gaps from any politically related hits on the hospitality industry by having the staycations of our dreams.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Mark LaFlamme, News
Body found in Lewiston bog still shrouded in mystery
In this otherwise pristine wilderness, bits of bright yellow crime scene tape assault the eyes and whisper of something terrible that has has happened here, Mark LaFlamme writes.