Rockland firefighters, assisted by departments from the region, were battling a major fire Sunday morning at the Redlon & Johnson heating and plumbing supply store in downtown. ROCKLAND — A fire heavily damaged a downtown Rockland business Sunday morning. The fire at Redlon & Johnson heating and plumbing wholesale supply store was reported shortly after […]
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Aroostook husband reunited with wife for 71st anniversary
PRESQUE ISLE — A couple in Maine will celebrate their 71st wedding anniversary next week, one year after they marked a big but bittersweet milestone. Delbert McCrum, 91, and his 92-year-old wife, Wilda, had their first date 75 years ago at a picnic on Mars Hill Mountain. They became sweethearts and were married on June […]
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Snowe proposes open primaries as a way to combat DC gridlock
AUGUSTA — She has been out of office for nearly two years, but former Republican U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has stayed focused on Washington. The three-term senator from Maine famously left Congress in 2012, dispirited by what she described as increasingly partisan gridlock and a failure of lawmakers to do the people’s work. She has […]
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2,100-mile road rally kicks off from Ogunquit
OGUNQUIT — A road rally with 115 vintage cars kicked off Saturday in Maine, where drivers embarked on a nine-day drive to Florida in vintage vehicles, including a couple that looked like they were straight out of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” Participants in the “Great Race” departed at timed intervals from Ogunquit, Maine, traveling through […]
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Aroostook County one of only two in New England where gun stores outnumber museums, libraries
FORT KENT — It’s not often licensed gun dealers and museums are referenced in the same sentence, much less the same news story. Earlier this week a reporter at The Washington Post did just that when he ran a nationwide, county-by-county statistical comparison on the numbers of federally licensed firearms dealers in relation to the […]
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East Millinocket official hopes GNP auction in neighboring town may spur mill restart
EAST MILLINOCKET — A town leader expressed hope Friday that the auction at Great Northern Paper Co. LLC will pay the company’s tax debt to Millinocket and would help restart GNP’s local paper mill. “I think it will tie up some of the loose ends in Millinocket. I am hoping that it gets our mill […]
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Cardboard boxes located too close to dryer vent caused laundry fire
THOMASTON — A fire Friday morning heavily damaged a building residents of an apartment complex use to do laundry. There were no injuries, but the town department called in the state fire marshal’s office to investigate this fire, which was the second one in town within a week. Officials determined the fire was caused by […]
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Town officials say paper machine auction appears to settle Millinocket financial woes
MILLINOCKET — The auction of Great Northern Paper Co.’s No. 11 paper machine from its defunct mill appears to have settled a $2.24 million property tax dispute with the town, officials said Thursday. Millinocket Town Manager Peggy Daigle said she observed the auction on Internet and had counted $1.08 million in gross bids awarded on […]
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Challenge to buffer zone at Portland abortion clinics heard
PORTLAND (AP) — A legal challenge to Portland’s city ordinance that establishes a buffer zone around entrances to women’s health clinics from which anti-abortion protesters are barred is being heard by a federal judge. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/1lErAyc ) reported that attorneys are scheduled to make their cases Thursday in U.S. District Court in […]
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J. Tierney: What did we learn?
Now that the state spent a half million dollars to get a group from Rhode Island to tell state officials how to manage the state’s welfare programs, what did they learn? Educators tell the public that it is more challenging for poor kids to learn; maybe welfare benefits should be increased. Do we want our […]