Sugarhouses open their doors for Maine Maple Sunday Weekend events March 25-26 with demonstrations, samplings and sales, pancake breakfasts and other family activities.
March 2023
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Greely team state champs with PFAS project
Five high school students are developing a filtration system for the forever chemicals and hope to advance to the national finals in a Samsung science competition.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Japan’s PM offers Ukraine support as China’s Xi backs Russia
The two visits, about 500 miles apart, highlighted the nearly 13-month-old war’s repercussions for international diplomacy as countries line up behind Moscow or Kyiv.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News, Politics
Fox News producer sues company, claims lawyers coached her Dominion testimony
Abby Grossberg alleges that she faced discrimination at Fox News and that she was coached to mislead in her Dominion defamation case deposition.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
MacKenzie Scott sets new ‘open call’ to donate $250 million
Through her organization Yield Giving, Scott plans to make unrestricted $1 million donations to 250 nonprofits selected in the process.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
McCarthy downplays possible N.Y. case against Trump, dismisses it as ‘personal money’
McCarthy’s comments come as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears close to deciding whether to charge Trump in the payment of $130,000 to silence adult-film actress Stormy Daniels over an alleged affair.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Yellen says bank situation stabilizing, different from 2008
She says the meltdown 15 years ago was a ‘solvency crisis’ as opposed to ‘contagious bank runs.’
Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
Kennebunk to examine future road acceptance
The select board agreed to send one road to public hearing but said a discussion on how to proceed with new road requests will take place this year.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
The Conversation: Worst bank turmoil since 2008 means Federal Reserve is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t in decision over interest rates
THE CONVERSATION — The Federal Reserve faces a pivotal decision on March 22, 2023: whether to continue its aggressive fight against inflation or put it on hold. Making another big interest rate hike would risk exacerbating the global banking turmoil sparked by Silicon Valley Bank’s failure on March 10. Raising rates too little, or not at all as some are […]