BANGOR—The Black Raiders rode roughshod over Lake Region in Friday night, March 2’s Class B State Championship: While a healthy list of Lakers contributed to the South reps’ total take – including standout senior Chandler True, who hashed 12 – Winslow’s defense simply proved overwhelming in the long run. 43-29 the final. For True, Lake […]
March 2018
Heavy snow and gusty winds move across Maine, causing flood of Thursday cancellations
The foot or more of wet, sticky snow coating many parts of the state is expected to cause power outages before the storm winds down.
Leonard Pitts: On 50th anniversary of MLK assassination, Trump should just stay quiet
Anything he says on April 4th will be totally meaningless.
Wake Up Weather – March 7, 2018
Light snow will develop today ahead of a nor’easter that will bring heavy snow tonight and into Thursday.
Proposed tariffs on Canadian steel could backfire on Maine
Steel and aluminum tariffs pinch manufacturers, but the biggest potential threat is in the way Canadians retaliate
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First wife of suspect in stepdaughter’s beating death calls him abusive
The woman says Julio Carrillo, now held in the fatal beating in Maine, was ‘dangerous,’ controlling and hurting her regularly.
Letter to the editor: Reducing regulations isn’t the solution to high cost of child care
There is no question that we must make child care availability and quality a high priority in Maine. I am a child care provider in Maine and I write in response to the Feb. 15 letter on deregulating child care (“Regulations needlessly add to expense of child care”). There is always room to improve regulations […]
Letter to the editor: When public ‘says something’ about a threat, law enforcement ought to ‘do something’
So, we have learned that the FBI had received information regarding the volatility of Nikolas Cruz. The FBI and local law enforcement did not act on this information. As a result of that inaction, 17 children and adults died. Then we learned that concerned neighbors had alerted police and the Maine Department of Health and […]