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    September 30, 2012

    Line makes a difference for Raiders

    Winslow gains a victory with three runners gaining more than or close to 100 yards, and improves to 4-1.

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    September 30, 2012

    Ellsworth coach has 39 years of success

    ELLSWORTH – A 68-year-old guy coaching high schoolers is rare these days. Coaching the same sport at the same school for 39 consecutive years is even rarer. Meet Brian Higgins, Ellsworth boys’ soccer coach — since 1974. You remember ’74, right? Nixon resigned. The stock market plunged to about 616. Babs was singing her hit […]

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    September 30, 2012

    High school football: Seagulls continue to build resume

    Old Orchard Beach beats Freeport 30-26 to reach 4-1 after an opening-game loss.

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    September 30, 2012

    Girls’ soccer: Red Storm end grueling week with a tie

    Unbeaten Windham ties Scarborough, which earlier this week took its first setback of the year.

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    September 30, 2012

    Police arrest four people in Waterville drug probe

    WATERVILLE – Police arrested four people and seized drugs and firearms Friday in connection with an eight-week drug-trafficking investigation. The arrests took place after police executed a search warrant at 13 School St., Apartment 5, said Waterville Deputy Police Chief Charles Rumsey. Police arrested Ryan Schall, 20, and Jill Longstaff, 36, both of Winslow; Havie […]

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    September 30, 2012

    Families of Alzheimer’s sufferers raise money and awareness

    Caregivers also turn out on a cold, wet day for a walk in Augusta to fight a growing health problem.

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    September 30, 2012

    Connecticut town mystified by shooting

    NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Residents of a Connecticut town want to know what was on the mind of a teenager who left his home at night dressed in black, wearing a mask and carrying a knife before he was fatally shot outside his aunt’s house by his father. Fifteen-year-old Tyler Giuliano died outside the home […]

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    September 30, 2012

    Climate change may boost state’s cranberry take

    Maine’s cranberry harvest is up this year, and one Cooperative Extension specialist believes that warmer weather brought on by climate change might be one reason. Charlie Armstrong, a cranberry specialist with the Cooperative Extension at the University of Maine in Orono, said the warming weather since the mid-19th century — an average 1.5 to 2 […]

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    September 30, 2012

    Bill holdup puts farms in hard spot

    Dairy farmers bear the brunt of the partisan standoff in Congress, as they sell their milk at a loss, with no subsidies in sight.

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    September 30, 2012

    Supreme Court may make more key rulings

    Major decisions on voting rights, gay marriage and affirmative action are possible during this term.