The severity of the winter storm will likely cause delays with tomorrow’s newspaper delivery. The heavy snowfall and icy conditions pose a risk to the safety of our carriers. Your paper may be delivered later than usual tomorrow or even along with your next scheduled delivery. You can keep up with our storm coverage and all the latest breaking local news at SunJournal.com. […]
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Mainers brace for snow wallop
Joe Jackson fastens a fresh set of chains on his plow truck in the Auburn Public Works garage in Auburn on Friday morning. One to 2 feet of snow is expected across the state over the weekend. (Sun Journal photo by Russ Dillingham) There’s no denying it. The first big storm of winter is on […]
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Weekend storm could bury Maine in snow
Much of the state will get 12 to 18 inches of snow but with a holiday on Monday for most, the timing could be worse.
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Fractured polar vortex means more winter mayhem for eastern U.S.
The swirling winds tens of thousands of feet high in the sky above the Arctic — the dreaded polar vortex — broke apart into three parts to ring in 2019. Now the eastern half of the United States is about to feel the consequences. Weather models project the onset of a severe and punishing winter […]
Posted inMaine
More snow expected Friday and into the weekend
It has been a strange winter so far. To this point in the season, Portland is still about 5 inches above normal in snowfall, which may seem odd to you. The reason is most of it came in November. The biggest storm was only 8.3 inches, and that was way back on Nov. 20 before […]
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This is what working in the cold looks like
Clouds form after digging exposes warm dirt and St. Laurent & Sons worker Josh Becvar exhales in Monday morning’s frigid temperatures off Bartlett Street in Lewiston. The area surrounding the former Hudson Bus property is being transformed into a giant catch basin for the Gully Brook water runoff from Bartlett Hill, new athletic fields at Lewiston […]