AUGUSTA — In a letter Wednesday, the top doctor for the American Medical Association urged Maine lawmakers to overturn the governor’s veto of a bill that would have provided broader access to the opioid overdose drug naloxone — known commonly by its brand name, Narcan. “Maine, like nearly every state in the nation, is seeing […]
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Gov. Paul LePage apologizes for abruptly leaving UMF ceremony
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage apologized Wednesday to the president and the former president of the University of Maine at Farmington for abruptly leaving a dedication ceremony and calling two students “idiots.” Reacting to signs held by student protesters Nick Bray and Ally Hammond, LePage cut short his speech during a ceremony to rename a […]
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Say it ain’t snow! Rare storm covers area
Snowfall, in inches, by 2:45 p.m. Tuesday: * Lewiston: 2.8 • Bridgton: 4.4 • Gray: 4.0 • New Gloucester: 2.7 • North Conway, N.H.: 3 • Otisfield: 2.0 • Yarmouth: 2.3 Yes, it snowed on April 26. It was also a little history in the making. Since the National Weather Service started keeping track in […]
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Maine Speaker Mark Eves calls for sanctions after secret meeting
AUGUSTA — House Speaker Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, on Tuesday called on the state’s attorney general to take action over a closed-door meeting of a newly formed blue ribbon commission on public education. At least four lawmakers in leadership roles in the Republican and Democratic caucuses at the State House participated in the breakfast meeting […]
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Report: 8 percent of Maine children have parent in prison
Nearly 1 in 12 Maine children have a parent who has served time in prison or jail. That is above the national average and the highest rate in New England, according to a report out Monday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. “A Shared Sentence: The devastating toll of parental incarceration on kids, families and […]
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Maine public education task force holds 1st meeting in secret
More coverage: Maine Speaker Mark Eves calls for sanctions after secret meeting Gov. Paul LePage says he’s out of the education commission What the education panel discussed at Monday’s closed meeting AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage and a handful of state lawmakers, both Republican and Democrat, convened a secret meeting Monday morning of a legislative […]
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Farming the sea
A Maine company is growing sea greens to meet demand for the ocean’s nutritious bounty. They began two years ago. Three men partnered to fulfill a mission. They formed their own company, Maine Fresh Sea Farms, bringing together their collective wisdom, energy and curiosity to explore how to grow and harvest sustainably raised seaweed in […]
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Checking in on Maine’s deer herd after mild winter
Maine’s hard-pressed deer population, which was subjected to two consecutively brutal winters, got a break with this past winter with relatively moderate temperatures and scant snow cover. As Maine’s state deer biologist Kyle Ravana often points out, the state of Maine’s deer herd is tied irrevocably to the Winter Severity Index ( WSI). When all […]
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On environment, Maine ranks 6th
The personal finance website WalletHub has released its 2016’s Greenest States report. Maine ranked No. 6 in doing right by Mother Earth. WalletHub’s analysts compared the 50 states in terms of 17 key metrics that speak to the health of the current environment and the environmental impact of people’s daily habits. It measured total municipal […]
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Earth Day 2016: How local companies go a little green
When it comes to conservation, every little bit helps. For Earth Day, we caught up with a multinational water company newly riding the rails, a bank recycling 88 tons of paper, an elderly care facility that’s feeling the heat and a coffee shop going with the low-flow to do its part. It’s green, to go […]