LEWISTON — State lawmakers from Lewiston are urging Maine’s U.S. congressional delegation to keep the heat on the federal Veterans Affairs Administration until vacant counseling positions at the city’s vet center are filled. “Failure to fill these positions with competent, qualified individuals is a serious health and safety concern for our veterans, not to mention […]
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Jay woman wants to find camel’s rightful home
JAY — Somewhere, a Nativity scene must be missing its camel, and Peggy Sheaff is hoping to remedy that. Sheaff, who recently moved to South Carolina but is spending the summer and fall in Jay, said she hopes she can find the rightful owners of a 4-foot-long, 4-foot-tall camel figure she bought at a yard […]
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Lewiston firefighters douse burning truck downtown
Video by Jeffrey L. David Lewiston Fire Department Lt. William Wallace said firefighters are unsure what caused the fire, but that the truck’s driver acted quickly and pulled the vehicle into the back lot at Melanson’s Garage at 210 Bartlett St. “He pulled it way out back, out away from everything, and called us and […]
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Rep. Chellie Pingree files disclosure report without Donald Sussman info
Maine’s 1st District U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree has filed her financial disclosure report for 2014, nearly four months after the original May 15 deadline. Pingree, a Democrat, filed the report Tuesday but excluded any financial information about her billionaire husband and Wall Street hedge fund manager, S. Donald Sussman, also announcing she and Sussman were […]
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Local vet center counseling, leadership jobs unfilled
LEWISTON — A shortage of mental health counselors at the Veteran Center in Lewiston has Maine’s U.S. Congressional delegation pushing for answers and Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald warning that a desperate, untreated veteran might act violently. As a measure of the problem, veterans and counselors say the local center has been without a team leader […]
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Jamie Hook on the art of picking the right act
Jamie Hook is an artist, performer and filmmaker, part-time Mainer and one busy fellow. Hook, who grew up in Denmark, Maine, is artistic director of the Denmark Arts Center there. We asked him about splitting his time between Maine and New York, picking just the right acts for the center and what sort of art he […]
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Hunter set their sights on Maine’s game birds
A 2013 survey conducted in behalf of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife by a highly reputable polling organization sheds light on who does what in Maine when it comes to recreational hunting. Details of this survey are available to anyone on DIF&W’s official website, www.mefishwildlife.com. For starters, the survey indicates that in […]
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All gassed up: Price outlook good, according to analysts
Experts say low gasoline prices are expected to stick around into winter. It means immediate savings for everyday drivers as well as for those hauling freight, which could contribute to lower prices on store shelves. Recently, “for the first time in six years, the diesel average fell below the regular average,” said Jeff Pelton, the […]
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Not on oil? A quick look at the rest of Maine’s heating marketplace
* Wood Many homeowners who’ve moved off heating oil have turned to burning cordwood and pellets, according to Lisa Smith at the Governor’s Energy Office. Thirteen percent of Maine homes now rely on wood heat, the second-highest rate in the country, as counted by the 2010 U.S. Census. Smith only started tracking wood-pellet prices two […]
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Low-cost heating oil to fuel household spending
Some years, finding a good-news story about heating oil is as likely as discovering a purple unicorn grazing in Baxter State Park. Then there’s this year. Behold, the unicorn: If prices stay as they are this very minute, Mainers who heat with oil — and most do — will save big this winter. By their […]