SOUTH BERWICK (AP) — Residents in South Berwick, Maine, have been told that arsenic levels in their drinking water exceeded federal standards in recent months. The Portsmouth Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2eUb- Har) the notice says water tests covering April through September show the average level of arsenic, over four quarterly samples, is at 11.95 parts per […]
November 2016
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Question 5: Changing the Game
In November of 2014, Gov. Paul LePage won re-election to his post as the Governor of the state of Maine by a mere 29,408 votes in a three-way race. After suffering a loss to “America’s most vulnerable gubernatorial seat,” the Democratic Party of Maine licked their wounds and vowed never to be beaten by such […]
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This Election Is Everyone’s Loss
A real leader isn’t someone who tells you what you want to hear but what you need to hear. They’re not leading if they ask you to accept the status quo or a slight modification of it, or to return to a glorified past that only some did well by. A leader is someone who […]
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LETTERS
Thank You from Help Yourself Shelf Food Pantry The St. Philip’s Help Yourself Shelf Food Pantry in Wiscasset would like to extend heartfelt gratitude for the support of the local community, the First Bank employees, the First Congregational Church and its Organ Society, the Midcoast Federal Credit Union, Morris Farm master gardeners, the patrons of […]
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Armand A. SanSoussi
HARPSWELL — Armand A. SanSoussi “Red” of Harpswell passed away peacefully surrounded by family and loved ones on October 31, 2016. He was born in Concord, New Hampshire on April 26, 1941 to Aaron and Arlene SanSoussi. Red joined the United States Army in 1958 when he was 17 years old. He graduated boot camp […]
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Donna Lee Kroken
Donna Lee Kroken, 76, of Lisbon Falls died Monday, October 31, 2016 due to complications of COPD and lung cancer. Born on November 10, 1939 at her grandparents’ farm on Main Street, Donna was a life long resident of Lisbon Falls. She attended school in Lisbon Falls, graduating from Lisbon High School in the class […]
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Teen buys boxcar for $1
WATERBURY, Conn. A country teen who paid $1 to buy a 1930 boxcar and save it from the scrapyard came to Waterbury on Oct. 26 to pick up his 44,000-pound purchase. Orion Newall Vuillemot, a lanky 15-year-old from Woodstock who collects old tractors and makes maple syrup for sale, showed up at 7 a.m. at […]
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Jurors hear details of carjack killings
BOSTON A lawyer for a man who could face the death penalty for carjacking and killing two Massachusetts men told jurors Wednesday that his brain “has been broken for a very long time,” but a prosecutor insisted his brain was his “most powerful tool” in the killings. The contrast was drawn during opening statements in […]
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Firm agrees to buy dams
WILDER, Vt. A Boston-based private equity firm has agreed to buy 13 TransCanada hydroelectric dams along the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The Valley News reports an ArcLight Capital Partners’ affiliate, Great River Hydro, has agreed to acquire the New England dams. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]
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Early voting: Tighter race, but still good signs for Clinton
WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton may not be accumulating the type of early-vote advantage her campaign wanted, but she continues to maintain an apparent edge over Donald Trump, with roughly one-fourth of all expected ballots cast in the 2016 election. The Democrat’s campaign once hoped to bank substantial votes from Democrats in North Carolina and Florida before […]