NEW SHARON ( AP) — The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office says a fire that caused fatal burns to a man inside his car was likely sparked by a cigarette and fumes from an aerosol can. Thirty-four-year-old Casey Turner of New Sharon suffered severe burns to his face and hands from the fire Tuesday night. […]
2016
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Man accused of La. murder in Maine
NAPLES (AP) — Authorities say a man who is free on bail and accused of killing a U. S. Air Force sergeant in Louisiana is currently living in Maine. Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce says 21- year- old Benjamin Shaw was arrested in Bossier City, Louisiana in January on a second-degree murder charge in the […]
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Efficiency spending increase scrutiny
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine regulators are considering whether to cut back on a proposed spending increase for energy efficiency programs. Efficiency Maine Trust has proposed a plan to spend $217 million over the next three years. Staff at the Public Utilities Commission recommends the spending plan be scaled back by $45 million. The commission on […]
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How About Some Facts?
Opinions are great, everybody has one. Adult decisions, however — like voting — require facts. With regard to the 2016 presidential elections, some of the most pressing concerns for the American people are health, wealth, food, education and jobs. In that context, we need to decide, as citizens, what is a right and what is […]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. — Daniel J. Boorstin, educator and Librarian of Congress (1914-2004)
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Suppressing Democracy
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” That was Mahatma Gandi’s famous advice on overturning an oppressive established order. In the Democratic race for the White House, Hillary Clinton represents the established order that Bernie Sanders wants to make more equitable, not in fits and starts, […]
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Thursday, March 3, the 63rd day of 2016. There are 303 days left in the year. On this date: In 1845, Florida became the 27th state. In 1913, more than 5,000 suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., a day before the presidential inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. In 1923, Time magazine, founded […]
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The Deciding Vote Was Mine, Or Was it?
On Feb. 24, the Woolwich Solid Waste and Recycling Committee (SW&RC) met as it does each month to monitor and consider how this inland pennisular town disposes of and recycles the waste that we, roughly 3,000 Mainers, not counting dogs and cats, or Llamas for that matter, regularly produce. This committee recommended last spring that […]
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CALENDAR
THU/3 MISCELLANEOUS WEATHER 101 WITH LEXIE O’CONNOR, 7p.m., Orr’s Island Library, 1699 Harpswell Islands Road. An overview of Maine’s weather and diverse climate, and how to understand a forecast. FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE: “THINGS OF THE AIMLESS WANDERER,” 7p.m., Kresge Auditorium. Film will be in French with English subtitles, and followed by a […]