A New Hampshire author planning a book asked for details about a 2008 shooting. An Auburn man questioned the dark tint on troopers’ Ford Mustang windows. He’s after those vehicles’ safety certificates. Those were three of the 6,000-plus Freedom of Access Act requests made to Maine State Police in the last year. In 2000, Maine […]
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LePage says he will veto all bills until Legislature pays Maine hospitals
AUGUSTA — In a statement made on a radio talk show, Gov. Paul LePage said Friday he will veto every bill that comes to his desk until the Legislature passes legislation ensuring the state’s debt to its hospitals is paid. “I’m going to lay out a little plan that I have,” LePage told WVOM radio […]
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Italian company acquires majority stake in Maine Manufacturing
SANFORD — An Italian manufacturing company has acquired a majority interest in Maine Manufacturing LLC, which employs about 105 people in Sanford, according to a news release. The Bologna-based GVS Group, which manufactures filtration devices for the medical and automotive sectors, released the statement Tuesday, saying it had “joined the existing investors of Maine Manufacturing […]
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Language in LePage budget revives debate over school choice vouchers
AUGUSTA — A provision in Gov. Paul LePage’s biennial budget proposal that seeks to create a voucher system for underprivileged students and families is set to reignite the legislative debate over school choice one year after the concept was rejected by lawmakers. Deep within LePage’s 2014-15 biennial budget document is language that if passed would […]
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After summer glut, Maine mulls helping lobster biz
PORTLAND — Lawmakers are looking to boost Maine’s troubled lobster industry with proposals that would pump more money into marketing the state’s signature seafood and offer tax breaks to encourage more lobster processing. The moves follow last year’s chaotic fishing season that saw a lobster glut, a crash in wholesale prices and tensions boil over. […]
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Missing toddler and grandmother found
YARMOUTH (AP) — Massachusetts State Police have located a grandmother and a toddler sought by a sheriff’s office in Maine. State police said 49-year-old Melanie E. Wever, and the child were found by troopers and local police at a gas station in Stoneham, Mass., north of Boston, just before 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Police said Wever […]
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Man who helped build Bangor Auditorium shares rich history — from location change to female urinals
BANGOR — You’d think that a man who was one of the primary people involved with the design and construction of the Bangor Auditorium would be wistful and maybe even sad as its 57-year run as eastern Maine’s primary civic entertainment venue winds down. Not Edward Lovejoy, who for 17 months served as building inspector […]
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Bangor manufacturer moving headquarters to N.H., citing ‘less than friendly’ business environment
BANGOR — A chemical distribution and manufacturing company with a long history in Bangor says it will move its headquarters to New Hampshire to lower its business costs. P.A.T. Products, an international distributor of specialty chemicals, plastic and raw materials, has been based in Bangor for 39 years. Leo Coyle, the company’s founder and president, […]
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Bill could force Maine to provide voter lists
AUGUSTA — Hoping to reduce the costs of campaigns for legislative seats, Rep. Joe Brooks, U-Winterport, has introduced a bill that would require the secretary of state to provide State House candidates with a list of the registered voters in the district in which they are running. The list would include a voter’s name, mailing […]
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Let’s stop bickering over county’s costs
The city of Lewiston has kicked off a round of tit-for-tat between itself and the county’s rural towns that, in the end, nobody will win. It started when Lewiston bargained down the price of dispatching services by arguing it provides its own dispatching with Auburn and shouldn’t have to contribute to a system it doesn’t […]