Many are relocating to apartments or host homes in communities from Saco to Brunswick.
2019
Posted inNation & World, News
Indiana cemetery objects to plans to exhume gangster John Dillinger
That exhumation would be part of a Dillinger documentary for The History Channel.
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Woman, 75, drowns when canoe overturns on Androscoggin River
The accident that killed Xiaolian Ding of Silver Spring, Md., happened Wednesday evening near Bethel, officials say.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business, Nation & World, News, Sports
Jay-Z defends NFL partnership as Kaepernick marks 3rd anniversary of protest
Roc Nation is set to help oversee NFL-related musical events and play a role in the league’s recent social initiative, Inspire Change.
Posted inMaine, News
The strange tale of a Maine balloonist who vanished in 1885
Wealthy Frederick Gower disappeared after his balloon wound up in the English Channel and put an end to his plan to develop a way to drop dynamite on London or Paris in future wars with the help of wind-borne bombing.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
GE shares plunge after Madoff whistleblower’s report alleges ‘bigger fraud than Enron’
Harry Markopolos says accounting irregularities added up to $38 billion.
Posted inAmerican Journal
60 years ago: Aug. 15
The Westbrook American reported on Aug. 12, 1959, that Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lepenven of North Street in Westbrook were vacationing at White’s Bridge. Grace Gordon of Gorham was to entertain the Women’s Christian Temperance Union at her State Street home.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Publisher who took over Maine Magazine amid controversy steps down
Andrea King succeeded Kevin Thomas, who had led the glossy Portland-based magazine and other publications until he was accused of sexually harassing a former co-worker.
Posted inMaine, News
Arundel farmers say their blood samples show high levels of ‘forever chemicals’
Fred and Laura Stone’s dairy farm has been shut down because of contamination from PFAS they say got into their water, soil and cows’ milk from municipal sludge used as fertilizer.
Posted inCops & Courts, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
High court upholds Seth Carey’s suspension from practice of law
A judge ruled in December that he had committed sexual assault, tampered with a witness and failed to comply with a previous interim suspension order.