WESTBROOK — The Thornton Academy boys swimming team beat Westbrook 105-66 while the girls fell 117-55. The boys took home first in the 200 medley relay with the team of Daniel Roch, Joshua Roberts, Eli Steward and Joe Vail. Roch would later win the 200 free, while Roberts won the 200 IM. Steward later placed […]
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2017 Maine hunting licenses now available
AUGUSTA (AP) – Maine hunting licenses are now available for sportsmen who want to head to the woods to try to harvest everything from moose to bobcats. The State Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says 2017 hunting and fishing licenses are now available online and at more than 800 licensing agents around the state. […]
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LePage to attend Trump Inauguration
AUGUSTA (AP) – Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he’s going to attend the inauguration of Republican President-elect Donald Trump. But it’s unclear whether he’s going to pack his dancing shoes. LePage, who appeared with Trump several times in Maine, said it’s doubtful he’ll be attending any of the gala balls after the president-elect is sworn […]
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Energy company eyes two Maine towns for solar project
YARMOUTH (AP) – A Maine energy company is proposing two new solar projects in the state that would send power to Connecticut. Yarmouth-based Ranger Solar wants to build the projects in the towns of Fairfield and Clinton. The company hasn’t disclosed an exact location in each town but each could take up to 100 acres. […]
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Fishermen to assist in shrimp study
PORTLAND (AP) — Three New England states say they have tapped fishermen to collect samples of a species of shrimp that was the source of a lucrative fishery before it started disappearing. Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire have all picked fishermen to harvest Northern shrimp to help gather information about the stock. The fishermen will […]
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Bath Viaduct project ahead of schedule
BATH (AP) – Maine officials say the construction of a new Bath Viaduct is ahead of schedule. The viaduct resembles a bridge and it carries traffic through Bath’s downtown and by Bath Iron Works shipyard. State engineers said last year that the viaduct’s roadway and supporting piers were worn out. The project to replace the […]
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Maine sues VW for breaking environmental rules
PORTLAND (AP) — Invoking the names of two of Maine’s environmental leaders, Attorney General Janet Mills said the state has sued Volkswagen for selling cars that purposefully skirted emission standards. The lawsuit, announced Friday, is one of about 20 actions taken by individual states targeting Volkswagen and its subsidiaries for selling diesel cars fitted with […]
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Will Obama pardon the Rosenbergs?
You may have noticed an unusual amount of renewed attention being given to the Rosenbergs—that is, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. That’s because there’s an aggressive push by liberals to try to exonerate the Rosenbergs, especially Ethel. This campaign has been going on for a while, but the hopeful are counting on one Barack Obama to […]
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Special ceremony honors citizens, corrections officers, deputies
ALFRED — It was around 9:30 a.m. on an October morning when it happened; a woman came running into J.D.’s Package Store and Redemption Center, screaming. “She was screaming ‘help me, save me, he’s coming with a knife,’” recalled manager Matthew Estabrooks. Estabrooks said the woman had a blackened eye and was bruised around the […]
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Cornish suspect allegedly threatens grandparents in altercation
CORNISH — A 21-year-old Cornish man who allegedly threatened his grandparents with a knife and who police said threatened to hit his grandmother in the face with a vase Sunday night is in jail this morning. Brandon Gignac was taken into custody without incident and is held without bail at York County Jail, Sheriff Bill […]