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Last Updated: 11.20.09

  • Baldacci orders $63M in department cutbacks

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Gov. John Baldacci ordered Maine state departments Friday to curtail spending by $63 million to make sure the budget is balanced. Baldacci issued the order for the fiscal year ending in mid-2010 as preliminary estimates showed an approaching shortfall in the two-year $5.8 billion budget of $40...
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TOP NEWS OF THE DAY

  • Still a bounce in his step

    AUBURN — Nine months ago, Josh Titus held the Edward Little High School gymnasium in the palm of his hand.  Thursday night in the same gym, he held some sweaty towels. And he couldn't have been happie...
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  • Veteran judge reflects on life on the bench

    LEWISTON - Robert Clifford didn't go to law school to be a judge. He didn't become mayor and, later, a state senator to sit on the bench. "No one sets out to be a judge in our system," Clifford told a group...
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  • One dead in turnpike crash

    LEWISTON — One person was dead Thursday night after crashing a car in a construction zone on the Maine Turnpike and flipping the vehicle near Mile 81, police said. A witness said the driver was traveli...
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  • Firefighter admits setting leaves on fire

    PARIS — A volunteer firefighter admitted to investigators that he started a blaze that destroyed two vacant houses in the village of Locke Mills in Greenwood early Tuesday when he ignited a pile of dry leaves, acc...
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SPORTS

  • Comeback Cougar

    PERU — Not one Dirigo High School football player is likely to forget the crispness of the autumn air cascading through his facemask, the light squish of FieldTurf beneath his cleats, or the dull roar of a biparti...
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  • Hornets defense stings foes

    TURNER — In the season opener against Hampden Academy, the Leavitt defense went into the locker room at halftime feeling embarrassed about a modest 15-7 deficit at the half. The Hornets' chagrin wasn't...
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  • Red Claws dazzle Auburn crowd

    AUBURN — Kyle Brown approached Tony Bobbitt with a pen and paper and an unusual request. "Can I have your phone number? I want to invite you to my birthday," said Brown, of Bowdoin, who will ...
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EDITORIALS

  • Reform's appeal is stability

    Instead of tired partisan canards or paradoxical rhetoric about Maine's new tax-reform legislation, voters should remember these two things: 1. This reform stabilizes Maine's tax system, which is too vul...
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    Shriners FEZtival of Trees 2009

    Publication date: November 15, 2009

    The Sun Journal Shriners FEZtival of Trees publication highlights the events of this annual event featuring beautiful sponsored Christmas trees that will go to the lucky winners of raffles sold to raise money for the Kora Shrine.

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    Veterans Day Salute 2009

    Publication date: November 11, 2009

    A very special supplement containing stories from our veterans who have made sacrifices for our country.

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