February home sales surge, median price falls in Maine PORTLAND – Maine Realtors say homes sales were up by nearly 30 percent in February compared with a year ago. Figures from the Maine Real Estate Information System, a statewide multiple listing database, show 624 single-family homes were sold last month. Meanwhile, the median sales price […]
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Scores arrested in anti-nuclear protest
Another group protests at the New Orleans offices of the parent company of the Vermont Yankee plant.
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Gardening experts urge caution with early spring
Maine gardeners shouldn’t get too excited about the unseasonably warm weather in recent days. Anything planted too early could die.
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U.S. government says 3.1 million Americans now work in green jobs
But the Labor Department report is sure to add to the debate over exactly how to define what green jobs are.
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Bagel guru Murray Lender dies at age 81 in Florida
The Lenders were the first to freeze their bagels for shipping without fear of them becoming stale.
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Co-owner behind Mr. Coffee dies at 89
CLEVELAND – The co-owner of a business that developed the Mr. Coffee coffeemaker popularized by pitchman Joe DiMaggio has died in Cleveland. A funeral home said Thursday that Samuel L. Glazer died March 12 at the Cleveland Clinic of complications of leukemia. He was 89. Services were held March 14 the Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz Memorial Chapel in […]
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Senate passes bill to help startup companies
Senate Democrats manage to pass one amendment to increase protections for investors.
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Businesses key to gay marriage vote
More than 100 businesses supported gay marriage in Washington state before the bill’s passage.
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Clear conscience may lead to higher pork prices
MINNEAPOLIS – As pork producers build new barns and retrofit old ones to give hogs more space, they say consumers opposed to keeping pregnant sows in tight cages can expect to pay for their clearer consciences with higher food prices. Under pressure from animal rights activists and sensing a shift in consumer sentiment, several major […]
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Steve Solloway: Man in the back who helped Maine to the front
At first glance, the 1-year-old group photo looks like countless others. Eleven men on ice surrounding a large championship trophy. But then you see him: The hockey man with the familiar wry look.