AUBURN — News that Shaw’s Supermarkets had reversed its decision to discontinue donations to a Brunswick-area food bank earlier this week had officials at the Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn hopeful the grocer would reinstate donations statewide. When Shaw’s discontinued donations of perishable foods that were near their expiration dates in 2013, the impact […]
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Sen. Angus King calls on military to stop heroin from Mexico
“We’re spending a lot of time here talking about the threat of ISIS and in the meantime, we’ve got this other threat that is killing, in my state, two or three hundred people a year,” King said at the nominee confirmation hearing for the new commander of the U.S. Southern Command before the Senate’s Armed Services […]
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Solar advocates rally as Maine PUC contemplates policy changes
HALLOWELL — Despite the gray overcast of a mid-December day, a coalition of advocates, who say state regulators need to do more to embrace and promote solar energy rallied outside the Maine Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday. “Maine needs solar jobs,” the group of about 50 people chanted at one point during their rally. Moments […]
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Nine years after daughter’s death, father says no progress on hunting reform
PARIS — There is no bringing Troy Ripley’s daughter back. Ripley, whose 18-year-old daughter, Megan, was shot and killed by a hunter in the waning days of the 2006 hunting season lives with that hard fact every day. Ripley, 52, also lives with the reality that efforts to strengthen landowner rights and public safety laws […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: The Year in weird
Maine’s weirdest museum keeps making headlines, a psychic documentary is diverted, an art project reaches out to strangers and the search for Maine’s Bigfoot is coming to a TV near you. Maybe. Someday. It’s a year-end weird update. ‘It’s about heart’ Back in May, psychic medium Angelina Diana gave an evening of readings at Monmouth’s […]
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Maine’s Susan Collins among most popular in Congress
LEWISTON — It appears Mainers are quite pleased with their senior U.S. senator. A new survey by Morning Consult that looked at 75,000 voters nationwide shows Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has the second highest approval rating in the Senate, second only to Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, according to a news release issued by Collins’ office Tuesday. […]
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The Hot Corner: Cosgrove taught Maine value of loyalty. Were we listening?
Jack Cosgrove was University of Maine football coach for such a long time that it is easy to forget what he inherited. After a brief period of national prosperity during the Mike Buck era, the Black Bears’ coaching office was equipped with a revolving door. Perhaps you watched with detachment on Friday as Iowa held […]
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So you want to be a Jedi?
Maine didn’t have any good guys until two weeks ago. Now we have one. An Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Portland area. Now rebel recruiter Erich Shafer wants to find Obi some friends. Shafer, 36, a commanding officer in the Rebel Legion, a worldwide group of costumers who dress as “Star Wars” heroes and allies, is […]
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STAR WARS: For Maine super fans, the force is always with them
“Star Wars” is coming! “Star Wars” is coming! It’s been 10 years since the last “Star Wars” release and 38 — yes, 38! — since George Lucas and the gang first took their galaxy of fans into turbulent hyperspace. Long feared to have been banished to Hoth or some other icy realm for eternity, the […]
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Turkey’s shoot-down of Russian warplane concerns Collins
LEWISTON — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the downing of a Russian warplane by America’s NATO ally Turkey on Tuesday was making an already tense and difficult situation in the Middle East even more worrisome. In Lewiston on Tuesday to visit with city leaders on economic and community development issues, Collins, a member of […]