By Pete Warner, BDN Staff ORONO — The University of Maine football team is once again driving toward NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision paydirt. This time, the Black Bears’ march will take them through Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., the home of the National Football League’s New England Patriots. UMaine athletic director Steve Abbott on Tuesday […]
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Maine Baseball HOF: Timberlake helped put Turner on baseball map
TURNER — Like a lot of boys of his generation — and only a few more generations to follow — Stan Timberlake would get home from school, hop on his bike and ride three miles to the nearest baseball field. Timberlake would meet his friends at the North Parish Road diamond and play until supper. […]
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Delays on Turnpike start this evening
PORTLAND – The Maine Turnpike Authority will conduct intermittent traffic stops this evening at mile 53 for northbound and southbound between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. Contractors will be setting structural steel for the bridge carrying Exit 53 traffic over the Turnpike. Maine State Police will stop traffic for up to 25 minutes as necessary. Motorists may want […]
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Auto-hiring of public retirees should end now
Hardly any of us would think twice about accepting a benefit that was perfectly legal and we saw others receiving. So we can’t blame teachers, school administrators, police chiefs and other government workers for seizing the opportunity to retire and keep on collecting a paycheck. Who wouldn’t like to receive a gigantic pay raise while […]
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Maine business people come to King’s defense
PORTLAND — A slate of Maine business people came to the defense of former governor and independent U.S. Senate candidate Angus King on Monday. The group was responding to a new television ad campaign, sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that attacks King’s record as governor. That ad says when King left office he left […]
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Maine businesses defend King’s record
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Several Maine business leaders are coming to the defense of independent Senate candidate Angus King as he endures attack ads during NBC’s prime-time coverage of the Olympics. The ads sponsored by U.S. Chamber of Commerce call the former two-term governor the “king of spending.” The chamber, based in Washington, is endorsing […]
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When Phil Somers tells you to take a hike . . . don’t be offended: The Turner master outdoorsman offers up his favorite trails in Maine and New Hampshire
Phil Somers hikes. Since he was a teenager in Norway, he has spent as much time as humanly possible outdoors. He and his primary adventure partner, wife Darleen House, enjoy skiing, camping, bicycling and kayaking, among other activities, but mostly hiking. The duo seldom goes a week without hiking at least one trail, even in […]
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Marriage equality: No stopping that glacier now
Normally, glaciers move at the speed of, well, glaciers. But sometimes, when conditions are right, a glacier’s seaward face suddenly plummets into the sea. Something similar is happening with marriage equality. Perhaps the first sign came in New Hampshire, where the Legislature’s newly overwhelming majority of Republicans pledged to repeal a same-sex marriage law passed […]
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Maine to receive $1.4M from drug firm overcharging MaineCare
AUGUSTA — Maine will receive $1.4 million as part of a national settlement with a drug wholesaler accused of inflating prices for prescription medications and overcharging state Medicaid programs. Maine Attorney General William Schneider on Friday announced Maine’s share of the $151 million settlement reached with McKesson Corporation, one of the country’s largest drug wholesalers. […]
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Maine’s congressional delegation offers a peek into their closets for a look at their made-in-Maine and the USA wares
Susan Collins counted a Newport-made pepper mill in her kitchen and an American-made Ford Focus in her driveway. Olympia Snowe’s doormat is made of recycled, Maine lobster-trap float rope, and her recycling container was decorated by Dover-Foxcroft craftsmen. Mike Michaud carries a Corinna-made wallet every day. In his closet: Maine-made Hathaway shirts “that may or […]