WATERVILLE (AP) — A pair of Waterville residents are donating $4 million to a Portland retirement community. Elizabeth and Sidney Geller are giving the money to The Cedars. The donation will result in the campus being renamed The Elizabeth and Sidney Geller Senior Living Community at The Cedars. The Cedars is in the midst of […]
2016
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Electricity consumers say company shorted them $35 million
AUGUSTA (AP) — A new class-action lawsuit claims that an electric company deceived Maine consumers and shorted them of $35 million. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on Nov. 18 claims that Electricity Maine used fraud and deception to enroll 200,000 Maine households and small businesses with the promise of substantial cost […]
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Parents sue teacher for putting bag on student’s head
PORTLAND (AP) — Two Maine parents are suing a public school district and teacher for humiliating their daughter by placing a bag on her head four different times. The Portland Press Herald reports that Michelle and Adam Woodford claim Regional School Unit 38 violated a state anti-bullying statute and public records law. The alleged head-bagging […]
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Forest land to be protected in Apple pact
REED PLANTATION (AP) — Computer giant Apple and The Conservation Fund are donating a 32,400-acre conservation easement to Forest Society of Maine. The Reed Forest land is located in Aroostook County in northern Maine. Apple is also supporting The Conservation Fund’s donation of an endowment to the Forest Society that the society says will ensure […]
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Maine school to counsel students after child’s death
PORTLAND (AP) — An elementary school is providing grief counseling after the death of a third-grade student the day before Thanksgiving. The superintendent of Regional School Unit 63 wrote on the school’s website that Holden School student Isaiah Perry was a “wonderful, friendly child” and said his death was “very untimely and tragic.” The school […]
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Backers of monument don’t think Trump will undo Obama’s move
PORTLAND The backers of a new national monument in Maine don’t believe Donald Trump will undo President Barack Obama’s move. Obama this year created the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument on 87,000 acres donated by Roxanne Quimby, the co- founder of Burt’s Bees. Trump criticized Obama at the time. The leader of a group […]
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Democrats Searching for a Road Back
The shock of the election has started to wear off, and while both parties have remedial work to do, Democrats have the more urgent problem. The party’s weakness is demonstrated most graphically not by the presidential race — for the second time in 16 years, its nominee won the most votes but not the Electoral […]
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Make Our (Costly) Infrastructure Great Again
By his own admission, President elect Donald Trump is a guy who likes to build stuff: A golf course in Scotland. A hotel in Washington D.C. A great, big beautiful wall on the American border with Mexico. But when it comes to his most ambitious building project yet – a badly needed, $1 trillion upgrade […]
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LETTER
Alone, tired, hungry and scared I’m writing to ask the editor to correct a misstatement in Tuesday’s paper. On page A8 column one you printed that our incoming Attorney General, Jeff Sessions “favors limiting the number of refugees coming into the US and turning away children who arrive at the border alone who are attempting […]