NORRIDGEWOCK (AP) — Four men from Connecticut have been arrested in Maine for allegedly planning to rob a home where they thought marijuana was being grown. They were arrested Sunday morning after someone reported suspicious activity in the central Maine town of Norridgewock. Two suspects were arrested on foot and two were arrested in a […]
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Maine students cast mock ballots
AUGUSTA (AP) — Students in 240 elementary, middle and high school students across Maine are casting mock ballots this week for president, U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The students casting ballots Tuesday will also vote on the five statewide referendum questions to appear on Maine ballots a week later. Following the vote, a “Rally […]
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Maine deer hunt starts for non-residents
AUGUSTA (AP) — Deer hunting is starting in Maine for non-residents. Out-of-staters get the go-ahead Monday to begin hunting. Saturday was residents-only hunting. The season ends the Saturday following Thanksgiving, Nov. 24. Weather forecasts were not looking encouraging for the season’s start this week. But hunters hoped that there would be more deer out there, […]
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Embezzlement rising in Maine
The longtime Norway town manager worked with Deborah Wyman while she was slowly, secretly stealing $117,592 from the town as its community development director. Wyman went to prison in 2006 and got out in 2007. “One of the lessons that I learned is just because you know and like people doesn’t mean that they won’t steal […]
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Bond issues make sense for Maine’s future
We agree with Gov. Paul LePage on some things, and we disagree with him on others. The wisdom of borrowing modestly to improve the state’s future falls into the latter category. LePage is a successful businessman, and that makes it difficult to see how opposing or holding up bond spending is a business-like decision. No […]
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Democrats, Republicans clash over forum absences
LEWISTON — The absence of incumbent Republican lawmakers from a community forum on education Wednesday night drew criticism Thursday from Democratic opponents. Missing from a forum at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College on Wednesday were state Sens. Garrett Mason and Lois Snowe-Mello, and state Reps. Bruce Bickford, Mike Beaulieu, Stephen Wood and Melvin […]
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Statehouse candidates talk jobs, economy and education during USM-LAC forum
LEWISTON — A slate of 14 candidates running for seats in Maine’s Legislature homed in on education Wednesday during a forum hosted by the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. Forum topics ran the gamut from the candidates’ thoughts on nontraditional students to the ever-increasing cost of higher education and student debt load. Candidates spoke […]
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Lewiston baker offers presidential cookies. Who are you sweet on?
LEWISTON — So far it’s Mitt Romney in a doughslide. A cookie-dough slide, that is. In a new twist on election polling, Grant’s Bakery is taking part in a nationwide promotional event that even its promoters are calling “half-baked.” The bakery and hundreds of others around the country are offering customers sugar cookies with an […]
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Peru group wants public right to speak at every board meeting
PERU — A group who petitioned to allow public participation at the end of every selectmen’s meeting told the board Monday night they would keep on fighting for their right to be heard. Public comments were limited to every other meeting months ago after discussions got out of hand. The board meets weekly. Selectman Ed […]
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Snowe stumps for Raye in L-A
LEWISTON — U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe is campaigning in Maine for her former longtime aide, Kevin Raye, in his bid for Congress. Raye is running as the Republican candidate against five-term incumbent Democrat Mike Michaud for the state’s 2nd Congressional District. “He is a consensus builder,” Snowe said of Raye during a lunchtime stop at […]