CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Sugarloaf kicks off its 61st season at noon Tuesday, the ski resort said in a statement Monday. The resort will open with three trails covering 1,750 vertical feet, all serviced by the SuperQuad chairlift. “Despite above-normal daytime temperatures over the past week, Sugarloaf was able to run as many as 110 snowguns […]
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College football: Black Bears get bye into FCS playoffs
For the first time since 2008, the University of Maine is headed to the Football Championship Series playoffs. The Black Bears, ranked 13th in The Sports Network/Fathead.com Top 25 FCS poll, will face No. 9 Appalachian State in the second round of the playoffs on Dec. 3 in Boone, N.C. The playoffs begin with the […]
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Land O’Lakes must be held to higher standard
Dateline Minneapolis/St. Paul. October 2011. “Another lawsuit has been filed alleging that Land O’Lakes Inc. and other major dairy producers illegally conspired to drive the price of milk up by slaughtering a half-million dairy cows since 2003,” according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. It’s scary when Big Agriculture starts to sound more like Big […]
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Macdonald crossed the line
I usually grant poetic license to the exaggerations, distortions and unjustified accusations of political candidates, but a recent local campaign ad was so outrageous it triggered my gag reflex. “Enough is Enough,” screamed a paid ad in the Sun Journal touting Robert Macdonald’s Lewiston mayoral candidacy. Enough of what? Enough of “refugees and lay-abouts from […]
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Hunters, biologists disagree on coyote’s impact on deer
Seen any nice deer lately in western Maine? In a state where deer hunting annually attracts more than 150,000 participants who collectively support a hunting-based economy worth more than $200 million, deer populations have dropped to alarming levels in all but southern Maine, according to Gerry Lavigne, a recently retired state deer biologist. Rhetoric and […]
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Road clear for heavy trucks on Maine, Vt. highways
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The president has signed into law a bill that includes a provision allowing trucks weighing between 80,000 and 100,000 pounds to use all interstate highways in Maine and Vermont. The U.S. Senate and House approved the measure earlier Thursday, sending it to the president’s desk for signing. The provision is good […]
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Bates men hold off UMFK for 71-69 win in season opener
LEWISTON — A pair of newcomers led the way as the Bates College men’s basketball team opened its 2011-12 season with a 71-69 victory over the University of Maine at Fort Kent at Alumni Gymnasium in the first game of the three-team Bates Tipoff Classic on Friday night. Bates junior Ed Bogdanovich, whose collegiate experience […]
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College football: Maine-UNH game has major implications for both
The 99th meeting in the Maine/New Hampshire rivalry this Saturday has significant postseason implications for both teams. Yet both head coaches agree their eyes are mainly on the immediate prize, the Brice-Cowell Musket. “It’s pretty simple for us, it’s the musket, because that has a history to it,” Maine head coach Jack Cosgrove said when […]
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Gifts that give back
Oh, boy, Christmas is almost here, and once again, you’re faced with the prospect of having to buy for people who have everything they could want and more. What in the world are you going to get them? Why not get them a gift that gives back? For those that want nothing and have everything, […]
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Maine forecast: Jobs recovery by 2017
It’s worse than he thought. This time last year, Charles Colgan forecast that Maine would reclaim the thousands of jobs lost since the start of the recession by mid-2014. Using phrases such as “more distress lies ahead,” Colgan updated his forecast to a recovery by mid-2017 — three years later — in a report for […]