ROME (AP) — The former summer home in Maine of beauty magnate Elizabeth Arden is on the market for $765,000. Arden built the main house in the town of Rome as her summer estate in the 1920s then later established the Maine Chance Spa at the site. Mamie Eisenhower, Edna Ferber, Judy Garland, Lillian Gish […]
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Maine AG says attempt to bar General Assistance for immigrants breaks law
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services will begin enforcing a new rule barring state money from being used to fund General Assistance for undocumented immigrants. Attorney General Janet Mills and others called the implementation of the rule illegal, saying that DHHS had not followed the process of public comment and legal […]
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State supreme court upholds Industry woman’s animal cruelty violation
PORTLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld the conviction of a Franklin County woman on the civil violation of cruelty to animals. Justices, for the first time, considered and rejected a challenge to the law for vagueness. In January 2012, 26 cats were seized from the home of Julia Peck, 58, […]
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Kerosene truck crashes and spills in Gorham, causing ‘substantial risk’ to nearby stream
GORHAM — A tractor-trailer transporting 9,000 gallons of kerosene flipped at the intersection of routes 114 and 112 in Gorham, the Maine Department of Transportation announced late Wednesday afternoon. The intersection has been closed to traffic, and the department urged commuters to avoid the area around the crash entirely. “This afternoon a Noonan and Jewett […]
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Kennebunk police charge ‘pervert’ notes suspect
KENNEBUNK — Kennebunk police say that have charged an Old Orchard Beach man with criminal threatening in connection to the notes signed “pervert” that were left in two Ross Road mailboxes last week. Lt. Dan Jones said Robert C. Simkowitz, 39, of 148 Temple Ave. in Old Orchard Beach was charged with two counts of […]
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Iconic Maine map maker DeLorme hit with $6.2 million patent infringement fine
PORTLAND — Federal trade officials have hit the maker of the Maine Atlas and Gazetteer with a $6.2 million civil penalty in response to a patent-infringement complaint brought by a Virginia company. The U.S. International Trade Commission issued the ruling against Yarmouth-based DeLorme on Monday, penalizing the company for what it determined were 227 days […]
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Cutler calls for voting reform on Maine primary day
LEWISTON — Eliot Cutler, an independent candidate for governor in Maine, was taking the opportunity Tuesday to call attention to state election laws he said were unfair and did not reflect a true democracy. “We have let money and special interests corrupt our politics and steal our democracy right out from under us,” Cutler said […]
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Maine candle company exec faces harassment suits
PORTLAND (AP) — Three women who once worked at a Maine scented candle manufacturer say in federal lawsuits that the company’s founder and president subjected them to “relentless sexual harassment.” The lawsuits were filed last week in U.S. District Court in Portland by the former vice president of sales, former retail sales manager, and former […]
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‘Canada’s Liberty Bell’ creating fissures between Gouldsboro residents
GOULDBSORO — A rising chorus of acrimony over a famous ship’s bell, which has been ringing through town the past few months, could reach a crescendo this week at the annual town meeting. On Wednesday, Gouldsboro voters are expected to decide what has been a hotly debated question since last winter: Should the town lend […]
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Wife of Ellsworth man shot by police details standoff
BANGOR — The wife of an Ellsworth man shot last week by a Maine State Police tactical team member during an armed confrontation and standoff said Sunday he is in a medically induced coma. “He’s still in critical condition,” Vicki Barnard, 56, said of her husband of 19 years. Jeffrey Paul Barnard, 50, was shot […]