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2015
Posted inBusiness
Cell company gets loan to extend service Down East
Wireless Partners has already invested $1 million in Washington County and eastern Hancock County as a partner with Verizon Wireless.
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Posted inBusiness
Rising rents put Portland second in national survey
Prices went up 17.4 percent in Portland from May 2014 to May 2015, according to Zillow, more than in any city but Jackson, Mississippi.
Posted inTimes Record
SWEET SEASON ARRIVES
BOWDOINHAM There’s nothing like that first, fresh strawberry of the summer — better yet the one you picked yourself. The strawberry fields at Fairwinds Farm opened Monday, good news to lovers of the sweet fruit who like to pick the berries themselves. The phone at Fairwinds started ringing in June with calls from people wanting […]
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2 ‘pot’ bills nixed
AUGUSTA If Maine is going to “free the weed,” the Legislature wants no part of the process. Lawmakers in the House and Senate overwhelmingly affirmed on Monday that they would not pass a law to legalize, tax and regulate recreational use of marijuana. The House rejected LD 1380, a bill by longtime legalization advocate Rep. […]
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Sen. King faces surgery for prostate cancer
BRUNSWICK U.S. Sen. Angus King, IMaine, announced Monday morning plans to undergo surgery for prostate cancer. “It’s a story we hear again and again — early detection saves lives. In this case, the story is mine. Not once, but twice,” said Sen. King in a statement posted online. King said he will have surgery at […]
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5 questions with … Sukie Rice
FREEPORT Freeport resident Sukie Rice is the founder of Friends of Kakamega, a nonprofit organization that supports a Kenyan orphanage for children whose parents have died of AIDS and other diseases. Rice will soon be making her 12th trip to Kenya in support of the orphanage, and will be making a presentation in Durham on […]
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School Committee tables budget decision, sounds off on Council
LISBON The School Committee tabled a vote on a 2015-16 budget Monday night, waiting to get additional information but taking the opportunity to sound off on the Town Council for “overstepping,” its authority. The Town Council reduced the School Committee’s initial proposed school budget and sent its version of the school budget to referendum on […]