Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed a handful of bills into law today, including a measure that limits absentee voting in the days leading up to the election. But the measure is controversial, because it also repeals Maine’s 38-year-old law of allowing same-day voter registration.
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Vandals damage Big Squaw ski resort
BIG MOOSE TOWNSHIP — Vandals have caused thousands of dollars of damage to the Big Squaw Mountain Resort ski area in western Maine. Guy Dow of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department said the culprits smashed television sets, tossed chairs through plate glass windows and chopped doors with axes sometime over Memorial Day weekend. They […]
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Giffords has memoir deal,Kelly retires from NASA
Together and apart, the lives of Gabrielle Giffords and husband-astronaut Mark Kelly have been extraordinary.
Now, he is retiring to be with her full time and the two are collaborating on a memoir that will tell a story, their story, that Kelly says the public hardly knows.
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Lane closure on part of Congress St. Wednesday
One of the two westbound lanes on Congress Street near Douglass Street in Portland will be closed most of Wednesday.
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Twist in health care law could be middle-class windfall
A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still get Medicaid.
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Obama likely to cut 10K troops from Afghanistan
Obama is also weighing a timetable for recalling the 20,000 other troops he ordered to Afghanistan as part of last year’s “surge.”
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Maine lawmakers hold off on borrowing
All 29 bills seeking bonds were aside in the current legislative session.
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Bill gives voters voice in Maine special elections
The bill would give towns more opportunity to choose nominees in special legislative races.
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Acting principal gets top job at Greely High School in Cumberland
CUMBERLAND — As of July 1, Greely High School’s interim principal will be interim no more. The School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors voted 7-1 Monday to hire Daniel McKeone as principal, Superintendent Robert Hasson said. McKeone, 45, started at Greely High in 1999 as a mathematics teacher, and was the department chairman from […]
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Giant 9/11 commemorative flag to fly in Portland
The flag is on a 50-state tour as part of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.