BANGOR (AP) — The University of Maine at Presque Isle is ready to provide details of its move to proficiency-based education. Public high schools are required to incorporate proficiency-based standards by 2018, and UMPI aims to become the first university in Maine and the first in the country to do the same. UMPI President Linda […]
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Heating oil price stays stable in Maine
AUGUSTA (AP) — A survey says Maine heating oil has gone down a penny per gallon over the past week, to $3.88 per gallon. The Governor’s Energy Office said Tuesday its weekly heating fuel survey showed the current cost of heating oil is 35 cents higher since the season started in October. The survey found […]
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Landmark Portland tire business closing after 88 years
PORTLAND (AP) — A landmark Portland tire company is closing its doors after nearly nine decades in business. Century Tire is scheduled to close Friday after 88 years. Owner Dick Aronson said his Kennebec Street shop is the oldest family-owned tire company in New England. The 78-year-old Aronson got into the business in 1961 and […]
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Wiscasset man killed in Woolwich crash
WOOLWICH (AP) — Police said a Wiscasset man was killed and a 17-year-old Boothbay girl seriously injured in a three-vehicle crash on U.S. Route 1 in Woolwich. Sheriff Joel Merry said a northbound Jeep driven by 45-year-old Walter Crosman struck a Toyota sedan he was trying to pass at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. The impact […]
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J. Chandler: End the tobacco epidemic
Recently, the American Lung Association released its 2014 State of Tobacco Control report card. It tracks every state’s progress in fighting tobacco. Maine was a leader in this effort — becoming the first state in the nation to receive straight “A’s” in 2005. However, this year’s report card is one to hide from your parents […]
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Rock band Foreigner asks Portland high schoolers to sing backup on ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’
PORTLAND — When Deering High School music teacher Gilbert Peltola told members of his chorus they’d been chosen to perform alongside one of the top-selling rock bands of all time, they had a variety of reactions. “I don’t think anybody really believed it at first,” said Olivia Ryan, a junior at the Portland school. “We […]
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Lawyers ask state committee to suspend CDC shredding investigation
AUGUSTA — Lawmakers on the Government Oversight Committee on Tuesday were asked to suspend their investigation into the destruction of public documents by officials at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention in June 2013. The request came via a letter from private lawyers hired by the state to defend the Department of Health […]
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OOB man chased off by pipe-wielding store owner in attempted robbery
SACO — A man who allegedly tried to hold up a convenience store with a knife to no avail was arrested Monday night after a brief standoff, according to police. The sequence of events leading to the capture of Mark Cassette, 27, started shortly after 8 p.m. when he tried to rob the Saco Bay […]
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Maine’s high court to hear environmental cleanup dispute
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s highest court is scheduled to hear arguments in a legal dispute over the environmental cleanup of the former HoltraChem Manufacturing Co. plant in Orrington. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/NxTqzi ) reports that the Supreme Judicial Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday on an appeal by Mallinckrodt LLC, a St. Louis-based pharmaceutical company […]
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After $33M renovation, Portland’s Civic Center set to reopen
PORTLAND — If you saw Judas Priest at the Cumberland County Civic Center in the ’80s, you’ve got another thing coming when the venue reopens Saturday. Since October 2012, the 1977 arena between Spring and Free streets has undergone a $33 million renovation and expansion from seat to ceiling. “It’s an amazing end to a […]