AUGUSTA (AP) — Mainers can begin reserving space at Maine’s Sebago Lake State Park this week for the 2014 camping season. The reservation system and call center will open for Sebago Lake State Park campground on Monday. A week later — on Feb. 10 — the reservation system will open at 9:00 a.m. for all […]
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George Hill: Increasing Medicaid coverage for women good for families
At a rally in January, Gov. Paul LePage stated that outlawing abortion is the solution to Maine’s declining population. Apparently, he believes that forcing women to have children they are not prepared to parent is key to a prosperous future. This is an interesting approach, considering the many ways LePage has made it harder for […]
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Giant blob? Who can resist such a story?
It’s really difficult for hardened newspaper reporters, like our own Mark LaFlamme, to ignore certain stories. Like those involving blobs. Or anything that happens in a subterranean urban cavern. Or bizarre things that happen to people while seated on toilets. And if a single story contains all of those items, and if it occurs in such […]
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Kansas co-op buys Oakhurst Dairy
PORTLAND — Oakhurst Dairy, the largest milk processor in northern New England, has been sold to a national dairy farmer-owned cooperative, allowing the family-owned business to continue to operate independently while providing opportunities for growth, company officials announced Friday. Operators of Portland-based Oakhurst said the agreement with Kansas City, Mo.-based Dairy Farmers of America will open […]
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Maine, N.H., Vt. snowmobile weekend underway
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Snowmobilers in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine are taking part in a three-day weekend when riders registered in any one of those states can explore the trails of the other two states for free. Starting Friday, any snowmobile legally registered in any of the participating states is allowed on trails in […]
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Portland man faces counterfeiting charges
PORTLAND (AP) — Police have arrested a Portland man they say has been making and spending counterfeit $20 bills. Several businesses in Portland and Falmouth have reported getting fake $20 bills in the past few weeks. On Tuesday, police aided by the U.S. Secret Service executed a search warrant at the home of 27-year-old Jonathan […]
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Homelessness in the U.S. is a national disgrace
On Wednesday, Phil Allen, who is the veterans housing service manager for the Portland-based Preble Street Resource Center, discovered a man who had been living in his car for the past four months. The man wasn’t found in Portland. He was found in Oxford Hills as Allen and dozens of other social workers and housing […]
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LePage meets with GOP lawmakers to discuss Medicaid
AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage on Thursday invited a select group of state lawmakers to an “informational session” held during a luncheon at the Blaine House, the governor’s official residence. Those asked to attend included a number of rural Republican state representatives who have either said they would support a Medicaid expansion or who […]
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Yeti seen in Litchfield?
LITCHFIELD — A Litchfield man claims to have seen a yeti, or Abominable Snowman, while out walking his dog last month during a brutal ice storm that left the town without power. He reported the sighting to the website Cryptozoology News: “It stopped right in front of us, looked at us, growled at my dog […]
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Weird, Wicked Weird: Chasing Bigfoot and a $10 million reward
Hampden biologist Michael Merchant and Bowdoinham ghost hunter Kat McKechnie trekked out to the Pacific Northwest last summer to hunt for Bigfoot and try to win $10 million. They combed remote mountain woods with eight other two-person teams — photographers, skilled hunters, a man who claims to have killed a Bigfoot, twice — competing in […]