As an allergist-immunologist, I see firsthand the impacts that air pollution has on my patients. Studies have long warned health professionals about the harm caused by dangerous levels of air pollution. However, we’ve never had nationwide information about how that air pollution affects the well-being of the people living in each community – until now. […]
August 2016
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Route 1 merge lane creates ‘Falmouth Raceway’
I live near the intersection of Routes 1 and 88 in Falmouth, referenced in John Parker’s letter of Aug. 22. I, too, find the new design flawed, but not because it slows traffic. Slowing is needed because the speed of traffic there is nothing like the posted speed of 40 mph. It’s more like 50 […]
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Posted inLife & Culture, Religion and Values
Reflections: All faiths are called together to stop the politics of division and intolerance
We each should play the role of Joseph to save this great country from a possible political calamity.
Posted inJournal Tribune
Maine lawmakers demand LePage resign over obscene voicemail
PORTLAND — Republican Gov. Paul LePage unleashed an obscene tirade on a Democratic legislator, leaving him a voicemail message that said “I am after you” and telling reporters he wished it were 1825 so he could challenge the lawmaker to a duel and point a gun between his eyes. The governor later apologized to “the […]
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Police bust Sanford drug trafficking ring
SANFORD — When Sanford police and state drug agents arrested Brian Vance on felony heroin trafficking charges Thursday, they say he was carrying a loaded handgun and a knife – along with about $1,500 worth of heroin and fentanyl. They had been eyeing Vance for about three months, and allegedly made earlier undercover drug purchases […]
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Revving things up for OOB triathlon
Revolution3 staff put up signs on First Street in Old Orchard Beach Friday afternoon. The Revolution3 triathlon will be held Sunday, bringing in more than 1,000 athletes from around the world. REV3 is also holding an expo at Veterans Memorial Park this weekend. For more information, visit rev3tri.com.
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York County jail committee mulls funding options
ALFRED — Not long ago, a defendant was sentenced to four, one-year consecutive sentences. Had the person been sentenced to one four-year sentence, he would have been sent to state prison, said York County Manager Greg Zinser. But because there were four individual sentences, he is doing his time at York County Jail. Judicial decisions, […]
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Heroin deaths spike in several states as potency of opioids increase
CINCINNATI (AP) — Officials in several states are scrambling to deal with a series of heroin overdose outbreaks affecting dozens of people and involving at least six deaths. The spikes in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia over the past few days have seen rescue workers rushing from scene to scene to provide overdose antidote […]
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Bonny Eagle High VP expected to fill interim principal post
BUXTON — The MSAD 6 school board is scheduled to vote Monday night whether to approve an interim principal and an interim vice-principal for Bonny Eagle High School. The board will vote whether to appoint current Bonny Eagle High School Vice Principal Lori Napolitano to the position of interim principal. Napolitano has been employed as […]
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Amtrak to receive $2.45B loan for Northeast Corridor upgrades
WILMINGTON, Del. — Amtrak is receiving a $2.45 billion loan from the federal government to buy new trains, upgrade tracks and make platform improvements along the busy Northeast corridor, the largest such loan ever by the Department of Transportation, officials announced Friday. Vice President Joe Biden, a champion of Amtrak who rode the corridor’s trains […]