BATH The Navy will take delivery in February of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), according to its manufacturer, Bath Iron Works. The vessel returned to the Bath shipyard Dec. 16 after successfully completing a nearly week-long series of demonstrations for Navy reviewers. Based on the performance during the sea trials, the Navy’s […]
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L.L. Bean to expand in Lewiston, bring more jobs
LEWISTON With L.L. Bean boots in high demand, the Freeport-based retailer is moving into a new 110,000-square-foot warehouse in Lewiston and bringing 100 more jobs with it. The Sun Journal reports the new space is double the size of L.L. Bean’s current production facilities in the Androscoggin County city. The company’s iconic boot is manufactured […]
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Maine legislative session faces opioid crisis, other issues
AUGUSTA Maine legislators began the new session Wednesday planning to tackle the state’s opioid crisis, the rollout of legalized marijuana and the minimum wage increase, and the fate of a psychiatric care hospital. They started delving through reams of bills as lobbyists from Uber Technologies to the Nature Conservancy to the National Rifle Association began […]
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Westbrook police end investigation into anti-Muslim threats
WESTBROOK ( AP) — The Westbrook Police Department has closed its investigation into anti- Muslim threats discovered at an apartment complex in the southern Maine city last summer. Police launched a hate crime investigation after typewritten messages with the phrase “All Muslims are Terrorists should be Killed” began appearing at the Westbrook Pointe Apartments in […]
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South Portland police to begin using body cameras
SOUTH PORTLAND ( AP) — Police in South Portland will soon be equipped with body cameras, becoming the first in Greater Portland to use the technology. The Portland Press Herald reports Wednesday that the department has two dozen chest-mounted cameras. They are expected to be used later this month or by early February. Police Chief […]
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Thursday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2017. There are 360 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History On Jan. 5, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine. On this date In 1781, a British […]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. — George Washington Carver, American educator and scientist (born 1864, died this date in […]
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Recommending A New Year Resolution
Almost seven years ago, I was part of a packed Merrill Auditorium hanging on every note as Yuja Wang accompanied the PSO in a performance of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. She’d just recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and was already a phenomenal rising star in the world of classical piano. Her provocative signature attire was […]
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In Support of the FHS Track and Field
On Jan., 10 the voters of RSU 5 will have a chance to give the students at Freeport High School an outdoor athletic facility comparable to that of other schools in Maine. At present, FHS is the only high school its size in western Maine, and only one of three in all of Maine, that […]