Getting through a Maine winter is a challenge for all critters. For Maine’s whitetail deer, it is the crucible they bear. Coyotes corner them and take them down in the deep snow. Forage is scarce. They must often get by on twigs, cedar bark, broken tops and litter fall. Then there is the unrelenting cold […]
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Monmouth plant to close, 20 jobs to be lost
MONMOUTH — A Maine paperboard manufacturing plant is shutting down, putting nearly two dozen employees out of work. David Ascher, vice president of the New Jersey-based Newark Group, said the Newark Paperboard Products plant in Monmouth will close within 60 days. Ascher told the Kennebec Journal the plant’s 20 or so workers were notified Friday. […]
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Sanford adds shotgun-style Tasers to arsenal
SANFORD — Police in a southern Maine town are adding a new shotgun-style stun gun to their selection of weapons to subdue unruly individuals. Sanford’s 41-member police force is being trained in the use of the new stun guns, which can be effective at 100 feet, much farther than the 20-foot range of hand Tasers […]
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Small business administration head, a Maine native, elevated to Obama Cabinet
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Barack Obama is elevating a Maine woman to his Cabinet. Obama announced Friday that the U.S. Small Business Administration’s administrator, a position now held by Nancy Mills, will become part of his Cabinet. The announcement came as Obama called on Congress to give him the authority to reorganize and consolidate […]
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Carbon monoxide pollutant
In a front-page story Wednesday by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting about Old Town Fuel & Fiber, the type of emission should have been reported throughout the article as carbon monoxide. It was a reporting error.
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Why is Maine the oldest state in the country?
Maine is the oldest state in the Union. That simple statement may send an important message about efforts to keep or bring young people to the state. It could be a tough task, and it could be one doomed to fail. When the standard is median age — the age at which half the population […]
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CLT cast of eight will perform ‘Almost, Maine’
AUBURN — On Feb. 10, Lewiston-Auburn’s Community Little Theatre will open the second production of its 72nd season, “Almost, Maine,” by Maine playwright John Cariani. The cast of eight actors, directed by Katie St. Pierre, will perform the two-act comedy at CLT’s home in the Great Falls Arts Center, 30 Academy St. The cast includes […]
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Economist: Maine employment won’t recover till ’17
PORTLAND — Job growth in Maine will be flat in 2012 and employment won’t reach pre-recession levels until 2017, a top economist said Tuesday in pushing back his forecast by three years on when the state would fully recover from the economic downturn. In his annual Breakfast with Charlie economic outlook presentation, Charles Colgan said […]
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Maine’s highest court considers Moosehead development proposal
PORTLAND — Critics of a massive residential development in the Moosehead Lake region urged the state supreme court on Tuesday to send the case back to Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission, while a lawyer for the agency argued that the panel acted within its discretion in approving the sprawling project. Phil Worden, a lawyer representing […]
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College Hockey: Anthoine finding his stride at Maine
BOSTON — Mark Anthoine’s first impression of Hockey East’s Frozen Fenway event had nothing to do with hockey. “Just going out there before the game, when UMass and UVM were playing, sitting in the Red Sox dugout, I wasn’t even thinking about hockey at that point,” Anthoine said. “I was like, ‘Wow, so many legends […]