Your Maine-grown Christmas tree represents years of nurturing, but it gives something back, too.
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Allen Afield: A December walk into the wetlands won’t bog you down
This coming week, a bog with its surrounding ring of black spruce, tamarack and occasional white cedar strikes me as the perfect destination for a hike, a surprising conclusion when considering so many critters in this habitat have migrated away or lie concealed in trees, shrubs and forest debris or beneath the ground and water […]
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All-State Football: The Trojan work horse
Andrew Libby, Thornton Academy’s Mr. Everything, is the Maine Sunday Telegram Player of the Year.
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Dispatches
Claim against Maine priest substantiated / Event aids Sandy victims, honors Ayla / N.J. man accused of smuggling whale tusks … and other news from around the region
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Power use projected to remain flat in N.E.
Programs to conserve energy, such as switching to efficient light bulbs, are working, experts say.
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Nation/World Dispatches
DETROIT Domino’s founder sues over contraception coverage rule The founder of Domino’s Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the health care law. Tom Monaghan, a devout Roman Catholic, says contraception isn’t health care but a “gravely immoral” practice. He filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court. It also lists as […]
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Suspects fatally shot after Alabama shooting incidents
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Police in Alabama fatally shot two suspects Saturday after separate shooting incidents 75 miles apart that left several others wounded. Authorities said Jason Letts, 38, of Jemison opened fire early Saturday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham, wounding a police officer and two employees before being shot and killed by another officer. […]
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Feds urged to open five zones now closed to groundfishing
New ways of managing the New England fishery make the decades-old closures moot, proponents say.
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Clinton faints, suffers concussion
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who skipped an overseas trip this past week because of a stomach virus, sustained a concussion after fainting, the State Department said Saturday. The 65-year-old Clinton, who’s expected to leave her job soon, was recovering at home after the incident last week and is being monitored by […]
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Swift fan takes bus to Nashville, marks singer’s birthday in jail
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A man took a bus from Wisconsin to Nashville, climbed a fence at a home linked to singer Taylor Swift on Friday and told police he was there to surprise a woman on her birthday, authorities said. He is jailed on a trespassing charge. The singer, who is overseas, turned 23 Thursday. […]