Members of the majority party in Augusta continue to pretend that onerous regulations don’t come at a cost to us all.
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Fewer Canadians traveling Maine Turnpike this summer
The average daily volume of Canadian motorists paying cash at tollbooths from May through August fell 43%, from 2,377 in 2024 to 1,339 this year.
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Meet the drivers of the antique cars parked at Bug Light Park
The annual Bug Light Car Show featured more than 250 antique cars from all over the state.
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At Bath’s Solo Pane, a new generation builds on decades of culinary tradition
For three years, owner Simone Laboa and his crew at Solo Pane e Pasticceria in downtown Bath have been making a delicious mess. With this summer’s expansion of Solo Pane’s dining space and menu, that mess will get even bigger — and better. Laboa, a 27-year-old native of Genova, Italy, explains that the root of […]
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Lewiston man shot 7 times, hospital put in brief lockdown, police say
Abdiraham Duale, 24, was taken to St. Mary’s hospital in Lewiston Wednesday night by a personal vehicle.
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Brunswick mobile home rent policies to be studied
The Brunswick Town Council has been taking steps in recent months to explore rent stabilization policies for residents priced out of mobile home parks.
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How a Woolwich man changed travel in Midcoast Maine
One of the greatest legends in Maine history was a man whose tireless efforts changed the landscape of Midcoast Maine. And this great public servant was a man from Woolwich. Frank William Carlton was born on April 5, 1859, to Ira and Harriet (Savage) Carlton in Dresden. Soon, the growing Carlton family moved to Woolwich […]
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Westbrook’s Vertical Harvest is an architectural response to food insecurity | Column
Vertical Harvest’s growing facility has an urban footprint of just one-half of an acre, but can produce a yield equivalent to 250 rural acres of the same crop.
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Brunswick’s Maine State Music Theatre brings Broadway to Portland’s waterfront
The event raised $155,000 to support MSMT’s ongoing mission to enrich lives through musical theater.
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Brunswick’s Maine State Music Theatre brings Broadway to Portland’s waterfront
Portland’s Ocean Gateway may be far off-Broadway, but you’d never guess it during Maine State Music Theatre’s “A Night on the Great White Way” gala. The cast of MSMT’s mainstage musical “West Side Story” brought the gala audience to their feet Aug. 18 with hit after hit, from “One Short Day” (“Wicked”) to “Don’t Rain […]