GLENBURN — Donna Keniston was 17 when her mother left Maine in 1981. “I thought she was dead,” Keniston, 50, of Plymouth said Sunday. So did Betty Lukich’s four sisters: Virginia Allen, 72, of Winter Harbor; Dorothy Ham, 77, of Brewer; Mary Inman, 75, and Laura Riegelman, 78, both of Glenburn. The family was reunited […]
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New fruit fly could put Maine’s blueberry crop at risk
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s wild-blueberry growers are monitoring their fields for a harmful new fruit fly that arrived in the United States five years ago and poses a threat to the state’s crop. With the blueberry harvest kicking into gear later this week, growers have been watching out for the tiny spotted wing drosophila, a […]
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‘Never events:’ State releases latest tally of deaths, items left behind during surgery
In 2012, two people had the wrong body parts operated on in Maine, 14 had something left behind inside them after surgery and 36 died in a hospital setting of something they weren’t expected to die from. A new state report shows those numbers are mostly down from the year before: Two wrong parts, 16 […]
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Maine Women’s Amateur: Bouchard eyes back-to-back at Brunswick
In the tradition of Abby Spector and Alexa Rancourt before her, Emily Bouchard is young, proven, and a prohibitive favorite to walk off with another state golf championship this week. Bouchard, 23, of Saco, won the inaugural Maine Women’s Amateur a year ago at Augusta Country Club in Manchester. She’s aiming for back-to-back titles when […]
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Charlie’s Maine Open: Nine past champions lead loaded field
Anybody who appreciates the history and tradition of the Charlie’s Maine Open is guaranteed to love this year’s renewal. Nine past champions are entered in the 95th annual tournament, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday at Augusta Country Club in Manchester. Combine that star power with the 36-hole format and the only dilemma promises to be […]
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Will Maine be the only Medicaid holdout in New England?
Since the end of the legislative session, one of the hot topics behind the scenes is “What happens with Medicaid?” Maine may well be alone in New England next year in not offering coverage to its newly-eligible citizens — 70,000 in Maine’s case — who have no other reasonable chance to access health care. Full-bore […]
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National Journal: New poll by Democratic ally shows Michaud surging ahead of LePage
AUGUSTA — A poll commissioned by the National Education Association and conducted by a Democratic polling firm shows that Democrat Mike Michaud has moved ahead of incumbent Republican Gov. Paul LePage and independent Eliot Cutler in a three-way race for governor,National Journal political blog writer Kevin Brennanreported Friday morning. Spokesmen for LePage and Cutler criticized […]
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Audits cite serious problems in the state’s day-to-day operations
That’s because the state has no well-documented disaster recovery plan and doesn’t run periodic disaster tests. Thousands of Mainers may be taking advantage of the unemployment system run by the Maine Department of Labor, forcing the state to spend millions of dollars more than it should. Or not. No one really knows. One-third of the […]
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Alfond attacks new Portland charter school for aligning with ‘extreme organization’
PORTLAND — Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland, attacked a new charter school in his district Friday for aligning itself with what he called one of the most extreme political organizations in Maine. Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, a new charter school set to open this fall in Portland, will host a policy luncheon next […]
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Hampden man takes command of U.S.S. Constitution
BOSTON (AP) — The U.S.S. Constitution’s new commander is another native New Englander. Cmdr. Sean Kearns was handed command of the historic warship docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston in a rainy onboard change-of-command ceremony Friday morning. Kearns, from Hampden, Maine, takes over from Cmdr. Matt Bonner, a Meredith, N.H., native who is […]