The budget for upkeep falls far short of the need, leading to ruptures and boil-water orders like the one lifted Thursday.
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Posted inNews, Sports
Girls’ basketball: Deering defense stifles Sanford
How much did they shut down the Spartans’ offense? Deering didn’t score in the fourth quarter – still won.
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Vote on New England fishing limits delayed
Fishermen tell the New England Fishery Management Council that the proposed steep cuts could finish off their industry.
Posted inLife & Culture, Nation & World, News
R.I. hometown thrilled for its Miss Universe
Pageant winner Olivia Culpo says she loves her little state and is happy to bring attention to it.
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Madoff’s brother gets 10 years for conspiracy
The judge said Peter Madoff was ‘not believable’ when he claimed he only learned of the fraud when his brother revealed it to him just before he surrendered to authorities.
Posted inBusiness, Politics
Wind industry fears loss of critical tax credit
WASHINGTON – Geronimo Wind Energy recently won regulators’ permission to build two wind farms in Minnesota. What happens next for the ventures depends partly on the political winds in the nation’s capital. Right now, those winds seem to be blowing in the wrong direction for the projects. With the U.S. Senate and House struggling to […]
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Local & State Dispatches
Six Maine college presidents join call for stricter gun laws / LePage cites energy costs for poor business climate / Police investigating death of off-duty worker at plant /
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Ex-soldier who helped free Jews dies at 91
ALBANY, N.Y. – Carrol Walsh, a retired state judge whose account of liberating Holocaust victims from a Nazi train led to reunions with the survivors 60 years later, has died. He was 91. Walsh died of heart failure Monday at his home in Sarasota, Fla., his daughter, Sharon Salluzzo of Pittsford, N.Y., told The Associated […]
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Legislative leaders announce committee assignments
Legislative leaders released the long-awaited list of committee assignments for the 126th Legislature. Below is the complete list. Although we’ve yet to see much of the new Democratic majority’s policy agenda, a few committees will are likely to see a lot of action, particularly the Appropriations Committee, which handles budget-writing and is the last stop […]
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N.H. expects whiter winter, more visitors
Tourism officials predict spending to increase by 9 percent from last year, to $860 million.