FORT KENT — Thrilled or disappointed by Maine’s weather on any given day? Thank or blame the jet stream, that fast-moving air miles above the Earth flowing west to east separating colder and warmer air. Meteorologists say it may well be setting the state up for a winter with above normal temperatures and normal to […]
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‘We don’t know what to expect’: FairPoint workers in Maine picket during first day of strike
The parking lot at FairPoint’s call center on Riverside Drive in Portland was still empty at about 10 a.m. Friday. In the coming weeks and months, who might pull into those and other parking spaces at FairPoint offices around the state is one of the biggest questions ahead for about 800 of the company’s Maine […]
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Health care, property tax reform, education top priorities for gubernatorial candidates
A newly elected governor will get at least one chance to make a bold statement of intent with his first legislative proposal in office, his “LD 1.” That first initiative may not be the most remembered initiative or even the most impactful of a governor’s four-year term, given unforeseen incidents such as recessions or ice […]
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Fairpoint unions go on strike
PORTLAND — More than 1,700 FairPoint Communications workers in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont went on strike early Friday after a failed attempt hours earlier by two unions to re-engage the company in negotiations. The unions have offered “significant concessions” but the company wasn’t interested, said Peter McLaughlin, business manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical […]
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Lewiston state Senate candidate says mailers misrepresent his voting record
LEWISTON — A Democratic candidate for the state Senate says his voting record on welfare reform is being misrepresented by the Maine Republican Party. The GOP campaign flier attacks Nate Libby of Lewiston for weakening efforts to “crack down” on fraud and abuse. Libby says the mailer, which features a photo of a heavy-set man […]
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Trial lawyer suggests fatal hayride wagon too heavy
LEWISTON — The Jeep pulling a hayride trailer that overturned, resulting in one death and many injuries Saturday, was ill-equipped to tow the trailer, according to a lawyer who specializes in cases involving hayride victims. Jeffrey Reiff of Philadelphia wrote in a website posting that the 1979 Jeep CJ5 had a towing capacity of 2,000 […]
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Candidate’s two homes prompts question over residence in Lewiston House race
LEWISTON — A city councilor who is also running for the Legislature says she’s always lived at 588 Main St. and concerns that she really lives at 686 College St., which is outside her ward, are unfounded. The Main Street address is in Ward 1, the ward Leslie Dubois represents on the City Council. It’s […]
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Caribou basks in record breaking temperatures Wednesday
The balmy weather is clinging to Maine for one final day before cooler weather returns. The National Weather Service says the temperature climbed to 74 degrees on Tuesday in Caribou, breaking the old record for the date of 71 degrees, set back in 1956. Richard Norton from the weather office says Maine continues to enjoy […]
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Former State Police chief to plead guilty to sex assault
PORTLAND (AP) — A lawyer for the former Maine State Police chief charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old child says his client plans to plead guilty. Andrew Demers Jr., of New Gloucester, had been scheduled to appear in the Cumberland County Courthouse on Tuesday for a hearing. But Walter McKee, the attorney for the 74-year-old […]
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LePage and Christie visit Lewiston’s Little Canada
LEWISTON — After a $100-per-plate luncheon Tuesday, Gov. Paul LePage showed fellow Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey around the Little Canada neighborhood where LePage grew up. Christie, on his third trip to Maine in support of LePage’s re-election campaign, said the Maine governor is the kind of guy who wouldn’t forget where he […]