PORTLAND (AP) — The Sierra Club is endorsing Democrat Mike Michaud over independent Eliot Cutler in the governor’s race, announcing a yearlong education effort that will likely be backed by spending from the national group with a goal of preventing Republican Gov. Paul LePage from winning a second term, the group said Monday. The earliest-ever […]
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Another town: Poland, joins the ranks of Maine’s “business friendly”
Paris officials hope they’ll make the list and they’re working to make it so. So far, only 25 of Maine’s 492 towns and cities have been certified “Business Friendly” by Gov. Paul LePage’s administration. State officials say only 35 have applied for the designation by filling out a seven-page application that includes narrative answers and […]
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Storm expected to affect Thanksgiving travel with mixed precipitation, high winds
GRAY — Forecasters are keeping their eyes on a storm expected to blow into the area Tuesday and continue into Wednesday. “We’re looking at rain and wind coming in,” Steve Capriola, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Gray office said Monday morning. Forecasters are expecting a significant amount of rainfall and mixed precipitation — […]
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Maine gas prices up nearly 5 cents per gallon
AUGUSTA (AP) — The average retail cost of a gallon of gas has gone up nearly 5 cents over the past week. Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the price is averaging $3.43 a gallon. Even though Maine prices are rising slower than they are nationally, in-state prices remain 17 cents above the national per-gallon […]
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Drivers told to be on the lookout for deer
AUGUSTA (AP) — State transportation and wildlife officials are urging motorists to be careful because of a rebound in the deer population and the fact it’s mating season. About a third of the state’s deer died during the 2008-09 winter, but the population has bounced back to about 200,000, according to a state biologist. November […]
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Reading the smoke signals: Concerns about wood-stove smoke prompt state review
For two years, the state has kept filters from a Greenville air-quality project — a project that tried to analyze wood-smoke pollutants in the air — nestled in a freezer. Soon, it will finally send those samples off to a lab. Next winter, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection plans to replicate the Greenville study […]
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Rep. Jeffrey Timberlake: Democrats must abandon Medicaid expansion
President Barack Obama’s brazen and bold-faced misstatements about the Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obamacare, may turn out to be a silver lining for Maine taxpayers. When the Legislature reconvenes in January, the majority party will once again push legislation to expand Medicaid, which is administered through the state’s MaineCare program. Gov. Paul […]
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Korean War veterans reunite in Peru
PERU — During a harrowing firefight atop a mountain in North Korea 62 years ago, two Maine buddies saw each other for the last time. Or so they thought. Glen Tompkins of Peru was a radio operator with the Army’s 7th Infantry Division and Donn Chadbourne of Wells was an Army medic with the 2nd […]
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Man found dead near police academy in Vassalboro
VASSALBORO (AP) — State police in Maine are investigating the death of a man whose body was found near the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro. Spokesman Steve McCausland said Kennebec County deputies were called to the scene along Route 201 about 7 a.m. Friday. Vassalboro is about midway between Augusta and Waterville. McCausland said […]
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Sugarloaf opens for ski season
CARRABASSETT VALLEY (AP) — Maine’s Sugarloaf ski resort is opening for its 63rd season. The largest ski area east of the Rocky Mountains will open Friday thanks to the chilly temperatures in the teens and low 20s this week. It will be open seven days a week. Sugarloaf employed new snowmaking technology this year as […]