Road paving in Limerick begins Monday
LIMERICK — Crews will be paving on Route 5 in Limerick and Cornish beginning Monday.
The project begins about half a mile south of the Limerick/Cornish town line and extends north 6.47 miles to the Route 25 intersection, according to a Maine Department of Transportation news release.
In addition to paving, there will be ditching and in-slope excavation.
Motorists should expect alternating one-way traffic controlled by flaggers within the work zone.
It is anticipated all work will be completed by Oct. 8. Pike Industries of Lewiston will perform this $1.2 million project.
Office for new national monument opens
MILLINOCKET (AP) — The first office for Maine’s new national monument has opened its doors just 24 hours after the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was dedicated by President Obama.
The Portland Press Herald reports two National Park Service staff members reported to the new Penobscot Avenue office in Millinocket Thursday to begin building community relations.
Tim Hudson, the monument’s superintendent, says curious locals have already visited the office and have been very welcoming in town.
Obama used his executive authority to designate 87,500 acres east of Baxter State Park as a national monument on Wednesday. The land was donated by conservationist and Burt’s Bees co-founder Roxanne Quimby earlier this month.
The monument is already open for recreational activities such as hiking and fishing.
A second office will open in Patten shortly.
LePage’s daughter hired by Trump campaign
AUGUSTA (AP) — The daughter of Maine Gov. Paul LePage has been hired by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate Mike Pence.
Lauren LePage was named the state’s coalitions director for Trump and Pence on Wednesday.
Trump’s campaign director for Maine says the younger LePage will work with various groups to get his supporters to the polls in November.
Lauren LePage is a thirdyear law student at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland.
She previously served as executive director of a political group that aimed to advance Paul LePage’s agenda and has served as the governor’s assistant chief of staff.
Plan to restore river herring funded
MACHIAS (AP) — Maine’s agriculture department is assisting with a project designed to restore commercial river herring fisheries in the Cobscook Bay area of the state.
The state Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is giving the Washington County Council of Governments more than $40,000 for the project.
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