WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans must now shift their focus to enacting President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax plan, a far heavier lift than the $4 trillion budget plan they’ve muscled through the Senate to lay the groundwork for the first tax overhaul in three decades. The GOP on Thursday narrowly backed the budget plan, a prerequisite […]
2017
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Ex-teacher draws sentence for posing as teen to get photos
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A former Manchester elementary school gym teacher accused of enticing young girls to send him sexually explicit photos has been sentenced to four to eight years in prison. WMUR-TV reports that Paul Johnson-Yarosevich of Acton, Maine, pleaded guilty Friday to 12 charges of soliciting and distributing the photos. Prosecutors say the former Parker-Varney […]
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Wardens offer reward to find person who shot bald eagle
PENOBSCOT (AP) — Maine game wardens are searching for the person who shot and mortally wounded a young American bald eagle near a state park in Penobscot County earlier this month. The Maine Warden Service says the eagle was found by officials in a remote corner of Penobscot County northeast of Baxter State Park on Oct. […]
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Astros beat Yankees to advance to World Series
Houston takes a 4-0 win in Game 7 of the ALCS and will play the Los Angeles Dodgers starting Tuesday.
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NHL roundup: Bruins lose lead, fall in overtime
Buffalo recovers from a 4-1 deficit to score a 5-4 victory.
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Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram win general excellence awards
The honors are announced at the Maine Press Association’s annual fall conference in Bar Harbor.
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Flip through pages of photographs published immediately after the 1947 fires
In late 1947, Guy Gannett published a broadsheet that brought together photographs of the October fires of that year ‘taken by staff camera men of the Portland Press Herald, Evening Express and Sunday Telegram and of the Daily Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel.’
Posted inMaine
Schoolgirl awed by wildfire grows up to pen definitive account
In the process of researching ‘Wildfire Loose: The Week Maine Burned,’ Joyce Butler also preserves a trove of eyewitness recordings.
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When Maine burned: How the monster Fire of ’47 tested the state’s resilience and altered its landscape
The fires that swept across Maine 70 years ago this month were like nothing its residents had seen before, or thankfully since.
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Fire had profound impact on Bar Harbor and Acadia
The fire brought dramatic changes – some almost overnight – to the island’s economy, and altered the character of its many vistas.