Almost 30,000 CMP customers lost power, and Brunswick schools canceled Friday classes.
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Posted inMaine, News
Nearly 30,000 CMP customers lose power as intense thunderstorm brings down trees
The company was working to restore electricity to nearly 14,000 homes and businesses still without power late Thursday night in the wake of the storm that rolled through southern Maine.
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Maine heat flirts with the record books, forcing school schedule changes
For some students, the first day of school Wednesday will be a short one – and forget the athletics.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: What do you find at the end of a rainbow?
It turns out that sometimes at the end of a rainbow you will find a lilac bush entwined with a rogue grapevine.
Posted inMaine, News
Fast-moving storm wreaks havoc on Penobscot County
Severe thunderstorms knock out power to more than 2,000 homes and businesses.
Posted inHealth, Letters
Letter to the editor: Climate change helps Lyme disease persist
Ticks are now able to thrive in environments where they previously would have frozen to death.
Posted inNation & World, News
Four cyclones churn in Pacific, with one threating to make landfall
Weather observers are eyeing Hurricane Hector east of Hawaii.
Posted inHealth, Maine
Scarborough, Portland open cooling centers to help cope with dangerous temps and humidity Tuesday
Communities including Portland and Scarborough open cooling centers as surging ground-level ozone pollution is made worse by smoke from 100 wildfires raging across the western United States.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News, Schools and Education
For pizza money, college-bound Yarmouth teen will continue predicting the weather from away
Phenom forecaster Jack Sillin is asking for $35 a month – in total – in exchange for the daily blog posts that many Mainers rely on.
Posted inMaine, The Maine Forecast
Why Lewiston’s flooding happened in a flash
In this tropical air, when it rains, it pours – and it poured for about two hours in the wrong location at the wrong time Thursday afternoon.