Ecomaine has a message for recycling customers — if you keep sending us trash mixed in with materials for recycling, it is going to cost you. The nonprofit corporation is losing thousands of dollars a month as it struggles to pick out as much non-recyclable material — called contamination — as it can from the […]
May 2018
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Boy, father attacked by bobcat
STOW (AP) — Wardens in Maine say they are searching for a bobcat that attacked a 17-year-old boy and his father. The Plowden family first encountered the animal Wednesday night in their backyard in Stow. Carolynn Plowden tells the Sun-Journal that the large cat showed no fear and was acting strangely by walking all around […]
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Waterville mayor faces recall vote
WATERVILLE (AP) — A Republican mayor of a Maine city now faces a vote that could remove him from office over his tweets mocking a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. Nick Isgro now must face a recall vote in Waterville, where he was elected to a second term last November. Isgro’s tweet in […]
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CMP knew about problems with its new billing system right from the start, memos show
Central Maine Power Co. has known for months that its new billing software was rife with problems, raising questions about its assertion in April that its software has nothing to do with why hundreds of customers had unusually high bills over the winter. More than 250 pages of confidential documents obtained by the Portland Press […]
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Home is Where Your Budget Is
Nearly 150 rental units at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station will be sold as condominiums and single-family homes. Brunswick Landing Venture, which had been renting former Navy housing at Brunswick Landing, is making units available for purchase, and, for a month, gave first dibs to those already renting those units. The impact of Brunswick […]
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Quote of the Day
The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. — Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher (c.604-531 B.C.)
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Answer to Russian Meddling Is at Hand
You leave your home, get in your car and drive off to shop, go to the bank and say hello to a friend. As usual, in the rear view mirror, you see a car following you. It’s not the same car every day, but one’s always there. The vehicle never comes close, and the driver […]
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A Gift from Brazil
During the dark days of the unethical and unhinged Trump administration, we need stories of good people doing great things to make the world a better place. So let me share a story about Juan Magahaes, an extraordinary Bowdoin first-year student from Brazil. Juan spent his youth in a favela (a slum) in Curitiba, one […]
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Plenty to Clean Up After Dinner
What a shame that the people who will profit most from the tempest that was the White House Correspondents’ Dinner are the two who deserve it least: Michelle Wolf and Donald Trump. Pundits, myself included, dissected the event with such gusto that folks outside the Beltway are likely fed up. But stick with me here, […]