Is it any wonder that Maine failed to place in the federal Race to the Top education reform competition? What a wake-up call. One must ask what, if any, educational improvements have resulted from Maine’s long, costly school consolidation campaign? Maine still hasn’t tackled major revisions to our fragmented educational system. Gov. John Baldacci’s initial […]
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Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Cost of Wilton study would be paid with $10,000 CDBG planning grant
WILTON — Wilton would benefit from a economic development study of downtown that would suggest ways it could better attract visitors and boost business, according to the application to the state for a $10,000 planning grant. Voters at a special town meeting Tuesday will be asked to approve the grant application to the Maine Department […]
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Goodbye, Earl: Tropical storm misses Maine
Meteorologists are calling Hurricane Earl’s visit to Maine “a near miss.” “If it had gone 100 miles to the west, it would have been totally different,” said Eric Schwibs, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray. “Instead, it hit Nova Scotia and 150,000 people are reported out of power.” The fast-moving storm — […]
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Wind industry scam
I thank Naomi Schalit for her excellent investigative reporting on the dark side of Maine’s expedited wind law and the shady politics that unraveled 50 years of mountain and ridge line protection with a single stroke of the governor’s pen. The questionable motives and benefits behind this rush to industrialize Maine’s mountains need to be […]
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The Hot Corner: Painful return for Turcotte
ORONO — We learned volumes about the University of Maine football team on this Thursday night hot enough to leave pools of eye-black on your cleats. Lewiston’s Jared Turcotte started the season hungry, healthy and knocking the taste out of everyone’s mouth if they weren’t wearing a blue helmet. Better pray to the gridiron gods […]
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College Football: Just can’t Bear it; Maine falls to Albany
ORONO — The 2010 University of Maine football season got off to a inauspicious start Thursday night at Morse Field. The Black Bears changed quarterbacks at halftime, saw their star fullback go to the sidelines with an injury late in the fourth quarter, and never got untracked offensively. A 21-yard field goal by Herb Glass […]
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College football: Black Bears back for more
It is a given that college football teams change from one season to the next. It’s just a question of whether the change is for better or worse. University of Maine head coach Jack Cosgrove already sees one positive difference between the start of this year and the Black Bears’ 2009 campaign, when they finished […]
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Body of Maine climber found in melting Canadian glacier
JASPER, Alberta (AP) — The body of a Maine climber who fell 1,000 feet to his death in the Canadian Rockies has been found more than two decades later. Officials say the remains of 38-year-old William Holland of Gorham were found in Jasper National Park in Alberta earlier this month. Park Public Safety Expert Garth […]
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Maine revenues down slightly
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine tax officials say revenues were close to budget as the first month of fiscal 2011 ended. Revenues overall for July were $1.2 million, or less than 1 percent, under budget. But Michael Allen of Maine Revenue Services told the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee Monday that the all-important sales tax revenues were […]
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Maine pilot walks away from crash and flying
SOUTH THOMASTON, Maine (AP) — A 75-year-old pilot says he’ll need a new hobby after the plane he rebuilt over a period of years crashed upon takeoff in Maine. William Hamilton of Damariscotta says his Cessna 120 seemed to lose power before clipping a tree and crashing in a field in South Thomaston. Hamilton suffered […]