FREEPORT — The Town Council on Tuesday decided to take more time and allow more discussion about loosening restrictions on marijuana cultivation. The only growing now allowed in town is for medical use. But growers would like to see the town allow the growth of recreational or “adult-use” marijuana for sale outside of Freeport. Councilors […]
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John L. Micek: America, it shouldn’t have to be this hard
We’re at a turning point. Again. We’re again at a moment in our nation’s history where we can decide who we are as a people, what matters most and what kind of country we want to hand to our children. Are we again going to be a state and nation that passively bears witness to […]
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Phippsburg annual Boat Parade and Blessing of the Fleet returns Aug. 18
The Phippsburg Recreation Commission will sponsor the 6th Annual Boat Parade and Blessing of the Fleet 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, rain or shine. Spectators can gather at the Ridleys Landing Dock in Sebasco Harbor. Off site parking will be available at 54 Ridleys Landing Road. A shuttle will run to the Dock every 15 minutes from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. […]
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Rich Manieri: Self-examination would be a good start in response to mass shootings
If the circumstances weren’t so awful, the predictability of the response would almost be laughable. Every mass shooting inspires new calls for gun control, as politicians and pundits retreat to their partisan bunkers and lob blame where they believe it will do the most damage. I believe in the Constitution, though I don’t view every […]
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He got 2 million people to say they’d storm Area 51. Now, he’s planning an alien festival
Not everyone is thrilled with the prospect of hordes of strangers gathering in the Nevada desert next month near the secretive government facility.
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Trump officials move to deny green cards, path to citizenship for poor immigrants
The rule change amounts to an expansion of the government’s definition of ‘public charge’ – and who is deemed likely to become one.
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Former Sen. George Mitchell denies contact with alleged Epstein victim
Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell of Maine flatly denied allegations contained in court documents unsealed Friday that he had contact with a woman who said she was kept as a sex slave by financier Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Roberts Giuffre, in a 2016 deposition, named Mitchell among a group of powerful men to whom she said […]
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Trump administration weakens application of Endangered Species Act
Critics say the changes will speed the loss of animals and plants at a time of record global extinctions.
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From Sidney to Augusta, paddlers get glimpse of how the Kennebec may have appeared centuries ago
SIDNEY — At the leap of a sturgeon, paddlers gasped and turned to companions to ask, “Did you see it, too?” Until 20 years ago, sturgeon had been unable to make these impressive leaps around 7 Mile Island on the Kennebec River. The breach of the Edwards Dam in Augusta gave them more of the […]