WILTON — Volunteers for the Western Maine Play Museum tore down the oldest of the two houses on the museum property at 561 Main St. on Friday morning. A controlled burn begins at 6 a.m. Saturday, fire Chief Sonny Dunham said at the scene. After the property was donated as a home for the children’s […]
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Farmington board holds to rules, postpones application review
FARMINGTON — Planning Board members approved applications for construction of a Family Dollar store, a new barn for L. Herbert York and a parking lot expansion for William Marceau on Monday. But by a vote of 4-3, they declined to review an application for construction of additional storage buildings because the application was submitted a […]
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York lobstermen upset at NOAA over broken traps
YORK — Some southern Maine lobstermen are upset that a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel is inadvertently cutting their fishing lines and traps. NOAA’s ship is working off the York coast to map the depths for new nautical charts. Mike Sinclair, president of the York Lobstermen’s Association, told the paper he estimates NOAA […]
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Fryeburg rescuers pull Cape Neddick man from the Saco River
FRYEBURG — Emergency personnel rescue canoeist from the frigid Saco River on Sunday afternoon. A Fryeburg Police Department release said that a group of 13 males were traveling in canoes and consuming alcohol when they said they encountered a hail storm, causing the canoe of a 50-year-old Cape Neddick man to capsize. Fryeburg police, fire […]
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Girls’ basketball: ‘Cats scrap Raiders
WALES — Paige McElwain takes pride in annoying her opponents. When she’s frustrating the other team, she knows she is doing her job, and she does it quite well. MeElwain was everywhere Oak Hill didn’t want the feisty junior guard to be in the first half of a Western Class B girls’ basketball preliminary. McElwain’s […]
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York agency lays off 23 as it leaves Medicaid rides program
SANFORD (AP) — A Sanford-based nonprofit that will stop providing rides for Maine Medicaid patients has let go more than 20 employees. York County Community Action Corp. announced in December that it would stop working with the state contractor that arranges rides in the county effective Feb. 7 because it was losing money. The agency […]
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Behavioral health workers gather to learn about gambling addiction
NORWAY — Treatment and support options for Mainers struggling with a gambling problem have expanded in recent years, and new state rules may help more people break away from an addiction to gambling. A handful of representatives from local social work, behavioral health and faith organizations gathered in a conference room at Stephens Memorial Hospital […]
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Group targets Lewiston for next vote to legalize marijuana
AUGUSTA — The Marijuana Policy Project will launch new efforts to legalize recreational marijuana use this fall in Lewiston, South Portland and York, a move that leaders in two of those cities said caught them to some degree off guard. While South Portland Police Chief Edward Googins said he has suspected since election night in […]
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Second man pleads guilty in Wilton beating
FARMINGTON — A Livermore Falls man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in jail, all suspended, and two years of probation for his part in the beating of a Wilton man June 30. Juan Colon, 23, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assault with a dangerous weapon in Franklin County Superior Court. He had […]
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Field hockey: York routs Spruce for West B crown
And it didn’t take long for the Wildcats to prove it. Taylor Simpson fired a shot through traffic and into the cage just 1:06 into the game — her first of three — and added another goal and an assist in short order as York bolted out to a three-goal lead and never looked back […]