AUGUSTA — A group hoping to require criminal background checks for all gun sales in Maine has taken the first step toward launching a petition drive for a statewide ballot question in 2016. Maine Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense Fund submitted an application for a petition to collect signatures to the Maine Secretary of […]
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Dedicated inductees honored
BANGOR — A shared passion for their chosen sport often had most modest roots a generation or more ago. Sometimes it was as simple as a backboard and rim attached to a garage or barn located at the end of a dirt driveway. Other times it might have been a smallish indoor court with overlapping […]
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Great Falls Balloon Festival: Third launch of weekend off without a hitch
LEWISTON — Despite a rough start with a rainout Friday night, organizers of the Great Falls Balloon Festival were pleased to see three launches over the last three days and were keeping fingers crossed for a fourth on Sunday night. On Sunday morning, hundreds of visitors gazed skyward as balloon after balloon lifted off into […]
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Meeting is not open to public
AUGUSTA — A story that appeared on Page A3 of Saturday’s Sun Journal about an opioid abuse roundtable hosted by U.S. Sen. Angus King should have said it is not open to the public. It was a reporting error.
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Hunting for Works for Maine does indeed work for this outdoorsman, too
As a rule, I don’t get too fired up about joining yet another new organization, but Hunting Works for Maine, which just got off the launch pad, has me stoked. This is a national movement with Maine being the 11th state in the country to participate. Hunting Works for Maine has a two-fold mission that […]
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King plans opoid abuse roundtable a day ahead of LePage’s summit
AUGUSTA – Just a day before Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage will host a summit meeting on Maine’s ever-growing heroin abuse problem, U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, will host his own roundtable on a similar topic. LePage’s summit is planned for Wednesday, Aug. 26, and King has called his meeting for Tuesday, Aug. 25, in […]
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New chief takes reins of U.S. Border Patrol in Maine
BANGOR — The U.S. Border Patrol in Maine welcomed a new chief Wednesday in 29-year law enforcement veteran Daniel Hiebert. Hiebert, who started his border patrol career in Texas in 1986 after a stint in the U.S. Army, took his oath of office as the new chief patrol agent for the border patrol’s Houlton Sector, […]
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Lawmakers: Mill slowdown, layoffs “devastating’ and ‘drastic’
AUGUSTA — State and federal lawmakers in Maine and Washington, D.C., reacted with frustration and concern Thursday at the news Verso will idle part of its mill in Jay — laying off about 300 employees permanently. “The news of the planned layoffs at the Jay mill is devastating for the community,” Sen. Tom Saviello, R-Wilton, […]
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Attorney General: Fatal drug overdoses continue to rise in Maine
AUGUSTA — Maine Attorney General Janet Mills said overdose deaths related to illegal drugs, including heroin and fentanyl, continue to climb. Since January, 105 people have died from an overdose in Maine, according to a release issued by Mills’ office. “These numbers are terribly distressing,” Mills said. “The first six months of 2015 show that […]
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Maine jails continue to collect EBT cards that don’t belong to inmates
AUBURN — County jail administrators said this week that they continue to confiscate Electronic Benefit Transfer cards from inmates during intake when the card is not in the name of the person who has it. The cards, used for the distribution of state and federal welfare benefits, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known […]