PORTLAND — Independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler on Tuesday rolled out his education platform in whistle-stops in Bangor and Portland. Cutler, of Cape Elizabeth, is running against incumbent Republican Gov. Paul LePage and Maine’s 2nd District U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud, a Democrat from East Millinocket. Michaud is leaving Congress to run for governor. Cutler, […]
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Auburn’s Lost Valley looks for ideas to save alpine skiing
AUBURN — Despite this past winter that seemed like it only just ended, a co-owner of Lost Valley, the only Alpine ski hill in the Twin Cities, said that without help the resort would be unable to open for another season of skiing and snowboarding. “We’re looking for ideas,” said Lincoln Hayes, a co-owner of the […]
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Cold winter fuels demand for firewood in Maine
WINDHAM (AP) — Summer isn’t officially here yet but Maine residents who heat their homes with wood are already thinking about next winter. Mark Killinger, owner of Atlantic Firewood, and other firewood dealers say homeowners are calling early and ordering more wood than normal, while memories of last winter’s brutal cold are still fresh. Wait […]
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Regulators to consider next Maine shrimp season
PORTLAND (AP) — Federal regulators will hold a meeting in New Hampshire to consider whether there will be a commercial fishing season for northern shrimp in 2014-15. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission scrapped the shrimp season in the Gulf of Maine for 2013-14 for the first time in more than 30 years, after shrimp […]
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Raye, Poliquin square off for GOP 2nd District nomination
NEWPORT — In northern Maine’s sprawling 2nd Congressional District, where views tend to run more conservative than in the state’s heavily populated south, a spirited race for the Republican congressional nomination has voters deciding between a tea party-backed candidate or a traditional New England conservative. Kevin Raye, former chief of staff to Sen. Olympia Snowe, […]
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Democrats Cain, Jackson seek 2nd District nomination
AUGUSTA — Maine’s 2nd District Democratic primary will present voters with a choice between the starkly different approaches of a polished dealmaker from the district’s most populous county and a plainspoken working-class advocate from a remote logging town.With just days remaining until the June 10 primary, Emily Cain and Troy Jackson are making last-minute pitches […]
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Train, tanker truck collide at Verso mill in Bucksport
BUCKSPORT – An unidentified truck driver was hospitalized with injuries believed to be non-life threatening after his tanker carrying several thousand gallons of clay slurry collided with a freight train at the Verso paper mill on Saturday, a company spokesman said. The train was moving at a slow speed away from the mill when the […]
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Person struck by Amtrak Downeaster dies in South Portland
SOUTH PORTLAND — One person is dead after a Downeaster train incident one mile south of the Portland station, Amtrak confirms to CBS 13. Train 648, on its way to Boston, hit the person at 6:55 p.m. Saturday, according to Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods. At the time of the incident, 68 passengers were on the […]
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Mother bear, cub spotted in Bangor
BANGOR — A mother bear and cub were reported seen in Rolland F. Perry City Forest early Saturday afternoon, police said. A woman walking with her daughter on a nature trail in the wildlife habitat off Tripp Drive reported seeing the two bears at about 1 p.m., police said. A dispatcher for the Maine Warden […]
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Politicians recall blue-collar origins
BANGOR — As passionate as Mike Michaud is for Democratic wheelhouse initiatives like expanding Medicaid, raising the minimum wage or women’s health issues, those issues took a back seat Saturday as Michaud wrapped up the Democratic State Convention with a call for civility. “Instead of giving you a barn-burning speech tonight of attacks and examples […]