AUGUSTA — The Maine Emergency Management Agency will soon survey fire departments around the state as the first step in a potential take-back and disposal program for firefighting foam containing toxic chemicals. For decades, military and civilian firefighters used special foam containing chemicals known as PFAS to smother the intense flames caused by fuel fires. […]
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Melissa Martin: Respect the oceans 365 days a year
My favorite vacation spot is any place with an ocean and a beach—God’s natural playground created for fun in the sun. And during summer beach vacation families can educate themselves about ocean clean-up and conservation. Oceans cover 71 percent of the planet and are home to important species and ecosystems that humans rely on for […]
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Village Idiot: Is this collecting or hoarding?
My house looks like the set of “Antiques Roadshow” — if the show was about useless, outdated junk instead of precious heirlooms. Duck lamps, VHS tapes, CDs, computers that use floppy discs, a box of dot-matrix printer paper, books that I will never read again, shoeboxes full of photographs. I have clothes that look like […]
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Leonardo DiCaprio helps create new environmental alliance
NEW YORK (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio is joining with billionaire investors and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth to create a new nonprofit environmental powerhouse charged with tackling climate change and the loss of biodiversity. The new organization, Earth Alliance, “will work globally to protect ecosystems and wildlife, ensure climate justice, support renewable energy […]
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Two injured in Saco motorcycle accident
SACO — Two were injured in a motorcycle accident on U.S. Route 1 in Saco on Saturday, July 6, according to Saco Police. The accident, which was reported at 9:59 a.m., blocked traffic on both sides of Route 1, also known as the Portland Road, for nearly four hours. Only the motorcycle was involved in […]
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TV is over the moon with specials recounting 1969 landing
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 1969 moon landing turned an achievement seen only in the imagination and sci-fi movies into a most improbable television event, a live broadcast starring Neil Armstrong and a desolate landscape. The astounding images from more than 200,000 miles away mesmerized viewers, a feat TV hopes to replicate leading up to […]
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The Book Corner
Beneath the Depths by Bruce Robert Coffin Published by Witness Impulse/Harper Collins 2017 Pages 413 Price Paperback $11.99 The old phrase ”The grass is greener on the other side of the fence” is a common misperception. We often do not realize what we do have is very beautiful. In that spirit, I would like to […]
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Southern California reels from magnitude 7.1 quake
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A quake with a magnitude of 7.1 jolted much of California, cracking buildings, setting fires, breaking roads and causing several injuries while seismologists warned that large aftershocks were expected to continue for days, if not weeks. The Friday night quake — preceded by Thursday’s 6.4-magnitude temblor in the Mojave Desert — […]
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Gordon Weil: Election 2020 issue: taxes and government’s role
Here are three statements made last week. In a Democratic debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he wants a national system in which the government provides health care and there is no insurance. Washington Post columnist Marc A. Thiessen commented on the Democratic debates and concluded, “[T]here was one clear loser – the American taxpayer.” Billionaire […]
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