AUGUSTA — Focusing on roads, bridges and housing, the Legislature’s budget-writing Appropriations Committee on Monday signed off on a $100 million state bond package that will go to voters in November for approval. “These investments will address immediate needs in our communities and spur much-needed job growth across the state,” state Rep. Peggy Rotundo, D-Lewiston, […]
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Paul LePage vetoes state budget, issues graphic veto message
AUGUSTA — The Legislature is set to reconvene Tuesday in order to take up a veto of the state’s next two-year budget issued by Republican Gov. Paul LePage on Monday afternoon. The veto follows a failed LePage attempt to make about $60 million in cuts to the budget, when LePage used his executive authority to […]
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Tales of a dedicated Maine warden, part I
John Ford’s Story: Part 1 Warden Sgt. Roger Wolverton gently suggested that Ford and Crabtree unstrap their gunbelts before going behind closed doors. “The bad guy shot the state police dog. I was in the bushes and suddenly I was facing a gun barrel. It wasn’t my first brush with death. My heart was pumping, […]
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Maine House leaders urge members to focus on state budget
AUGUSTA — House Democratic leaders on Friday urged members of their caucus to stay focused on the state budget before delving deeper into recent actions by Republican Gov. Paul LePage that have some lawmakers calling for impeachment. House Majority Leader Jeff McCabe, D-Skowhegan, said that while he and other lawmakers were deeply concerned about recent […]
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New Auburn Neighborhood leading historic walking tour
AUBURN — Auburn Economic Development Specialist Alan S. Manoian and Ward 5 Councilor Leroy Walker will lead an informative evening Historic Walking Tour of the New Auburn neighborhood from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 30. The tour will begin at Rolly’s and travel Mill, Second, Cook, Third, Dunn, Fourth, Fifth and South Main streets […]
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Gov. LeRage: Paul LePage says area lawmakers, cartoonist should be shot
AUGUSTA — A top advocate for expanding passenger rail to Lewiston-Auburn said Thursday that Republican Gov. Paul LePage said state lawmakers from Lewiston should be “rounded up and executed in the public square.” Tony Donovan, a Portland-based real estate developer and member of the executive council for the Sierra Club Maine, said LePage made the […]
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Maine lawmakers take timeout in rush to finish work for 2015
AUGUSTA — State lawmakers gave themselves a timeout early Wednesday morning when they voted to extend by five days their current work session and then went on recess until Tuesday, June 30. The Legislature still has before it a host of work, not the least of which is finalizing a $6.7 billion budget package that […]
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Maine Legislature extends session for five days to finish work
AUGUSTA — For the second time in less than a week the Legislature voted to extend its lawmaking session for an additional five days with votes early Wednesday morning. Lawmakers are winding up their work in what’s been a contentious, 6-month lawmaking session highlighted by a split between House and Senate Republicans on a budget […]
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Catholic youth leadership program to be held
PORTLAND — New Evangelization Week, a five-day Catholic youth leadership program for teens, will be held at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish from July 5-9. The event, sponsored by the Diocese of Portland’s Office of Lifelong Faith Formation, is focused around discipleship and evangelization. “We are called to be faithful in prayer, service and to […]
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Farwell announces trimester awards
LEWISTON — Farwell Elementary School has announced its list of third trimester award recipients. The following students were recognized: Conscientious students: Grade two Hayley Aloegnikou, McKenzizie Cooper, Ava Cramer, Jon Dube, Hannah Jones, Isaiah Martin, Lauren McNutt-Girouard, Layla Merrill, Heather Michaud, Sadie Morgan-Merceir, James Reagan, Kiley Reny, Daceyn Roy, Amiel Sookma Alaxendrois Andoniades, Athanasia Andoniades, […]