SKOWHEGAN (AP) — A Norridgewock man is going on trial for the fatal shooting of an Anson man three years ago. The murder trial of 41-year-old Robert Nelson begins Monday in Skowhegan. Nelson has pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting 60-year-old Everett Cameron while Cameron was parked in his pickup truck on a dirt path […]
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Muzzleloader deer hunt under way
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s firearms deer hunting season is over, but muzzleloader season is just getting under way. The state’s muzzleloader season begins Monday and continues until Dec.1 across the state. A second one-week season runs from next Monday until Dec. 8 in a limited number of hunting districts. Muzzleloader season was established in 1981, […]
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Franco-American task force holds final meeting in Lewiston
LEWISTON — Le plus que ça change, le plus que c’est la même chose. Rough translation: The more things change, the more they stay the same. That sentiment, offered by a pair of Maine-based French heritage teachers, is also the biggest concern for a task force the Legislature set up in 2011 to examine Maine’s Franco-American […]
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Men’s basketball: Maine defeats Siena
ORONO — Zone defense at both ends of the floor resulted in a grind-it-out pace Sunday afternoon at Alfond Arena. With the University of Maine and Siena College locked up in that style of play, Justin Edwards and Xavier Pollard found a way to inject some intensity and excitement. The defensive prowess of the dynamic […]
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PUC change means CMP must negotiate on trees outside its right of way
HALLOWELL — Maine has maple, elm, hemlock, pine and spruce, to name a few. But add to the many varieties of trees two other distinct characteristics: “hazard” trees and “danger” trees. Each presents potential harm to Maine’s power lines, and to Mainers’ access to electricity. To limit that harm, and to protect landowners’ property, a pending […]
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State chooses FairPoint for 911 upgrade despite lower bid from Oxford Networks
AUGUSTA — For the third time this year, the Maine Public Utilities Commission has chosen FairPoint Communications to replace the state’s emergency 911 system with an upgraded, Internet-based system that can accept emergency calls from a range of devices. The commission’s choice of FairPoint for the $32 million contract, handed down Tuesday, comes after the […]
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Veterinarian brings 2 retired circus elephants to live in small Maine town
HOPE (AP) — Maine has its moose, lobsters and puffins. Add elephants to the list. Two retired circus elephants, 41-year-old Opal and 43-year-old Rosie, have been transplanted to a newly built elephant rehabilitation center in an unlikely spot, the countryside of Maine. Jim Laurita worked with Opal and Rosie decades ago when he was an […]
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Grover Gundrilling expands, expects to eventually add 35 jobs
OXFORD — Chris Hester’s office, at Grover Gundrilling’s new Oxford facility, still has that ‘new building’ smell. Workers are putting the finishing touches on several other offices in the 50,000-square-foot former warehouse at 59 Industrial Way in Oxford. Hester, Grover Gundrilling’s president, says the company has been shifting equipment and staff to the new facility […]
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N.H. to chop down red pines to slow insect attack
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire forestry officials plan to remove about 120 acres of red pine trees from a state park this winter to slow the spread of an aggressive insect that’s destroyed thousands of the trees in southern New England. The nearly microscopic brown insect is called red pine scale and was detected […]
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Dresden firefighter’s home burns down
DRESDEN (AP) — Dresden firefighters found themselves battling a blaze at the home of a colleague on Thanksgiving Day. The blaze reported about 1 p.m. Thursday destroyed the home of Albert Lilly, a local firefighter and brother of fire Chief Gerald Lilly. No one was home at the time, but two firefighters were treated for […]