All bull shit and a damn thing is going to be done . All talk and we have been down that road before . I will not be surprise to see gas hit $ 4.75 a gal before May 2012 ( end ) SUC?S Here in Alaska it is BETHEL $6.34 and here in ANCHORAGE $ 4.00 PLUS.

Let go back to the old FOOD STAMP . CASH ??????

Hopeful not over work and under payed ?? Think about that >>>>.

Where are some pictures of first living green thing ??????

It is time for it to go.....

Look like to hell with the Senior Citizen ? The growing senior population is not going away or is it ? It is time to be thinking about who has payed taxes and who has not here ...... Yes the young pre-K classes need a day care all day PRE-K Day Care ... The Senior Citizen need life to PAYING SENIOR CITIZEN DID I SAY THAT BEFORE TO ........

Maine a welfare state ????? Just look do you see it or hear it does it run down Lisbon st.

Riverside Cemetery again . now what 00000000000 ???????

No unemploymend to get no more funds to get . With that no longer counted as unemployed..... AND YES I GO ALONG WITH THE BRAIN WASH GOING ON ..... THAT IS WHY IT IS BULL ....//

GOOD LUCK ON THAT ONE. MAINE WILL HAVE 00 IF THE LETTER DON'T DO ANY GOOD ........

Just love this weather but 110 will be to hot.......Just think SNOW.....

Let's see where the job's go to ? Nice for the taxes payers .... Lewiston is not what it was 20 or 30 years ago . I would love to see a happy thing come from this BUT Let's see .. Let's look at this 1 year down the road .. or more ....

Nice to see taxes going up $ 58.50 on a $ 150.00 home. And what other taxes are up ? You all tell me ?? Wages are not . CUT'S CUT'S CUT'S School Department ?? ALL THE MONEY COMES FROM ONE POT ??? Taxes ??

What is going on is this a school or ?????

How fun more SNOW ..........

Don't forget the Coffee and Donuts ????

Try it ? If you do try it for 2 years ? See if you get more money from the STATE OF MAINE ?? Good luck

Winter in Maine how fun ????? Sleet and freezing rain = slippery road conditions ? Enjoy ????

Keep up the good job ? That's go for all the city Vehicle's ????? ALSO RIGHT ????/

Maine at it's best ......... Good luck to all enjoy your snow ........... Summer is just around the snow hills ..................

Funny that the old way is gone TV OR RADIO ? And is the new automatic dialing system multiple language ???? Why not Text everyone ?

That is how thing go in Maine ???????

OH put him in jail and ?????? lol

Maine need's all the snow it can get ?????

NO SURPRISE LEWISTON IS THE NUMBER ONE REASON WHY ??????? The money come in to Maine and almost all of it goes to Lewiston for something or someone ?????? There no job's and no one looking for a job so that add up real good >>>>>>>>. AND more is to come ?????

CAN I LAYAWAY GAS PRICES HERE AT THIS WEBSITE ????? GAS PRICE ARE GOING TO BE OVER $ 5.50 A GAL BY THE 4TH OF JULY 2011 AT THIS RATE ???? SUC?S HI BP

Why is gas going up now it is only winter ? If winter gas prices are going now what are the summer prices going to look like ? $5.50 a gal .. Prices like this is not going to help anyone but the BIG OIL ..... HOPE NOT ???????

Dam light pole , maybe it is time to move them off the side of the road ???????????

I see that PILOT are no longer have to go thought security procedures . This is bull shit why maybe we need to think back to 9/11/2001 . Was that not a PILOT THAT WAS IN THAT JET ??

YES stay off the roads let's be around for Thanksgiving Day.

Winter in Maine . The fun of making SNOW . Enjoy .......

Are you telling me there are no back up power ? For light's for the hallways and the dark stairs, if anything ? 'Are we there yet?' I like this saying >

"The goal of the training is to instill in his officers a comfort level while driving their cruisers under most possible scenarios."

"“What we do is we train them to win,” Moen said. “When they leave here they've got confidence in their skills and their abilities to be able to operate a vehicle safely.”"

Let's add weather to this and the officers are just that . SNOW, BLACK ICE, AND SO ON
The roads in Maine are not the speed way . ( summer ya ) Yes I get what it does say BUT "under most possible scenarios." Now if it was snow on the race way and add in black ice now you are talking .

There goes LEWISTON .. You all think you have problems now ??? If you think that Bates Mill casino plan is going to work ?? If Bates College has a free for all ( party ) and all the police are at the Casino's . Who are you going to call ?? Maine National Guard ?? The state Police ??
Just because " Oxford County casino almost guarantees a win next year in Lewiston, "
GOOD LUCK . Hope you all think 1st... OR $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ YA RIGHT .

It is to bad that if everyone that could vote would only get out and DO IT . I am not saying that non citizens should be able to . SO EVERYONE GET OUT AND VOTE that can............. and get off your asses .......... You read after a elections that only 20% - 30% got out and did it a crying shame ...

THANK YOU “In memory of the American soldiers known but to God.” Sad but true .

We have them in ALASKA to . The only thing ours have jackets on ( ha ha ) Not funny

A new name for drive thur ha . ????? Have you way or not

Bank of America Corp., the nation's largest bank, been ripping America off . for years .

To hell with MR. Obama rejecting the solar panel idea for the White House? But MRS. Obama has a garden at the White House. /!!

Come to Alaska ????

Maine you can keep the tea there ?????? ha ha

Hay this is not free money so spend it wisely????? ya right ????? ( " $900,000 '' )

Is this like the speed zone sign at schools . 20MPH . ????? Do not do But ??

Like to see how all this $$$$$ is going to work ??
("The entire project is costing $360,000. That includes $288,000 in federal stimulus money, $36,000 from the state and $18,000 each from Lewiston and Auburn." )

I hope there was a sale taxes on that money ??? Let see 5% or is it 7% ?

(" Jones said that McDaniel does not appear to have participated in the cemetery vandalism.")
Sorry about that if he was not there does not get him off ? If he supply cans of beer to the three others he to is mixed up with it to . I hope Maine has laws that will put him in jail for furnishing alcohol to minors.

Thank you

I think I said if you put a recreational place close to the Cemetery? This was going to happen . I work for Riverside Cemetery and putting gravestones back on their bases is not fun. (Broken alcohol bottles were found at the scene. ) ??????????????? RIVERSIDE CEMETERY IS NOT A RECREATIONAL PLACE . A sad day. That is all ......

You are not going to stop the drinking of Hard Stuff . It is only going to make it a Game >

The Androscoggin River was full of shit in 1900- 1960 and on . It does not take a high payed person to put 1+1 together ... or does it ????

Hay why not turn it back to a passenger depot again? I lived on Lowell CT. and always was there doing odd job's ( 5 years old ) 1956 . That was the good old day's . THANK YOU Bob Roy Jr.'s . Yes would like to see more pictures >

I know in two months you will be 101 . So Happy Birthday Clara Thibault. Thank you all for the best birthday this lady had for a long time . THANK YOU ( A 1929 Packard far out. )

Victims in crash that killed Stevens identified

By RICHARD MAUER, LISA DEMER and KYLE HOPKINS
Anchorage Daily News

Published: August 10th, 2010 07:07 PM
Last Modified: August 10th, 2010 08:17 PM

Former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, a political icon who helped steer Alaska from its frontier territorial days to its modern present, was among five people killed in the crash of a lodge floatplane near Dillingham on Monday

Four people survived the crash into a steep, remote hillside 17 miles north of Dillingham, and at least three were flown to an Anchorage hospital in a Coast Guard C-130 aircraft. The bodies of Stevens, 86, and the other victims were returned to Anchorage on Tuesday afternoon.

Among the survivors was former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe and his son, Kevin.

Besides Stevens, Alaska State Troopers identified the victims as Dana Tindall, 48, of Anchorage, a senior vice president for the Alaska telecommunications company GCI; Tindall's daughter Corey, 16; Washington, D.C., lobbyist Bill Phillips, a former Stevens chief of staff; and the pilot, Terry Smith, 62, of Eagle River.

The other survivors were Phillips' son Willy, 13, and lobbyist Jim Morhard, 53, of Alexandria, Va.

The plane, a vintage, single-engine de Havilland Otter, was reported missing about 7 p.m. Monday, some four hours after it took off for a fishing site. The plane was owned by GCI, which also owns a guest lodge near Lake Aleknagik on the Agulowak River in prime fishing country. Stevens and the other passengers were the guests of GCI.

Deborah Hersman, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said in Anchorage on Tuesday afternoon that the plane came to rest in a ravine with a 30-degree slope, about a 15-minute flight from the GCI lodge. The area was steep, slippery and wet, she said.

Hersman is leading an unusually high-level team of investigators for a remote Alaska plane crash. At a news conference at Ted Stevens International Airport, she said NTSB officials have not yet reached the site but have been able to interview witnesses and people involved in the search and rescue effort.

Among them was a physician who was flown to within 1,000 feet of the crash site and traveled on foot to reach the wreckage. The doctor helped the survivors overnight, Hersman said.

There was no post-crash fire, though the doctor could smell fuel, and no one was ejected from the aircraft. The fuselage was largely intact, but the wings were swept back and debris littered the hillside for about 100 yards, she said.

By the time the doctor arrived, one passenger had been able to leave the plane, Hersman said.

She did not identify the doctor or name the passenger who freed himself.

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Poor weather had hampered rescue efforts. The wreckage was discovered at about 7:30 p.m. by a local pilot searching for the Otter, but fog soon covered the area.

The first assistance came from area residents, including the physician, who were flown to the nearby ledge by a commercial helicopter pilot. They were able to provide aid and comfort to the victims and communicate the situation to state officials, but National Guard and Coast Guard air rescue crews sent to the area were unable to approach the crash site in helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft until about 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Alaska National Guard spokeswoman Kalei Brooks said the 11th Air Force Rescue Coordination Center reported that conditions were marginal when rescuers arrived by helicopter. "There's less than a quarter-mile visibility and less than 100 feet of ceiling ... between the clouds and the ground."

At a late-morning news conference in Anchorage, Maj. Gen. Tom Katkus, the Alaska National Guard commander, said the plane didn't send an automatic locator signal when it crashed, but he could not explain why. Katkus and other officials at the news conference said it was too early in the event to suggest a cause for the crash.

Most of the information about the crash came from witnesses and others in the Dillingham region. Robin Samuelsen, chief executive of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp., said Stevens and the others were headed to the Nushagak River for an afternoon of fishing for silver salmon. Hersman said the left the lodge after lunch, about 3:15 p.m.

The wreckage of the GCI-owned Otter was discovered by John Bouker, owner of Bristol Bay Air Service in Dillingham.

"I was in the air last night about 7:30 p.m., flying an air-taxi trip," Bouker said in a telephone interview. "Dillingham flight service station told me that GCI was concerned about the location of their Otter. They hadn't seen or heard from their Otter since 2 o'clock in the afternoon. So I got the information where they were going from and where they were going to and I backtracked their flight path."

Bouker he saw the wreckage just below the cloud line.

"The fog kind of cleared and I found the airplane in the side of the mountain," he said. He didn't know the mountain name, or even if it had one, but it was in the Muklung Hills, about a third of way to way to their destination.

The Otter had plowed into the hill, Bouker said. "He bounced up the mountain. He looked like he was in a full power climb. ... He looked like he was climbing when he hit."

Bouker couldn't see anyone on the ground but thought the back door was open.

Within 15 minutes, helicopter pilot Tom Tucker of Tucker Aviation in Dillingham had landed on a ledge above the crash site. A GCI employee was in Tucker's aircraft, Bouker said. Another commercial helicopter pilot, Sam Egli of Egli Air Haul in King Salmon, also got to the scene, Bouker said.

The helicopter pilots landed in the fog, Bouker said. "They came down in the pitch-ass dark in a raging-ass storm. I don't know how they did it. Those are the heroes."

The pilots carried emergency medical technicians from Dillingham to the scene but they couldn't free the injured passengers.

"They were trapped in the airplane. They could get not get them out," Bouker said. They needed tools to extract the trapped people.

Kevin O'Keefe, the son of the former NASA head, was in the front right seat with serious injuries, Bouker said; he didn't know where the other survivors were.

The GCI lodge is on the headwaters of the Agulowak River. Before it became a corporate lodge for entertaining company officials, clients, friends and others, it was known as the Wood River Lodge and was open to the public, Samuelsen said.

The region, much of it inside Wood-Tikchik State Park, is upriver from Bristol Bay. It is studded with magnificent lodges.

"It must be what heaven looks like," Samuelsen said.

The views and fishing come with pricey rates. Clients who aren't wealthy often talk about a "once-in-a-lifetime experience" as the reason they go.

Companies also maintain lodges for business reasons. A lawsuit in Anchorage some year back revealed that the Anchorage Native corporation Cook Inlet Region Inc. had access to a place called the Golden Horn Lodge, where it entertained board members, staff, clients and politicians. Stevens was forced to reimburse the owners in 2007 when the Daily News reported he stayed there in 2001 and 2003 but didn't disclose the visits as gifts.

The region is also notorious for white-knuckle flying, with frequent low clouds, rain and winds.

In a statement, Alaska Airlines said Smith, the pilot of the Otter, retired from the airline after a 28-year career. He served as chief pilot in the airline's Anchorage base and pioneered its service to the Russian Far East in the late 1980s. In 2001, he received the company's highest honor, its Customer Service Legend Award.

Phillips worked for Stevens from 1981 to 1986, according to his law firm biography. He was a frequent attendee during Stevens' trial on corruption charges in 2008, sitting among the senators' friends and relatives. As a lobbyist and lawyer, Phillips specialized in regulation, transportation, telecommunications, technology, energy and national defense issues -- all subjects under Stevens' purview in the Senate.

Jim Morhard was a former staff director of the Senate Appropriations Committee under Stevens. He left that job to found Morhard and Associates, a lobbying firm, according the The Hill. A 2003 profile of him in National Journal described him as "serious and soft-spoken." The profile said he was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Arlington, Va.
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THE STATE OF ALASKA HAS LOST SENATE STEVENS .

He is on Vacation no Ocean no lake just kicking back . Ya that is what he is doing . Only in AUBURN . HA HA

We can say that Maine is full of hot air > HA HA ( WIND )

Now is this going to help Maine ? Is this a good idea ? A CASINO IN MAINE ? Was this not past before ? Well good luck with this one ?

If this was 40 - 50 years ago this would worked . YA the Androscoggin River was polluted and yes polluted ( one more time ) I would of walked it on my hand's ( ha ha ) ( or flight over it but walk no way ) Put the money in to bike paths on the HWY ... HWY........

not a .

Thank GOD ?

Hope this program will go by the rules > Only in America, UNITED STATES Residence .
" First-come , First-served basis " ONLY CAN HOPE ???

It would be nice to see the Federal Government come up with a grant . To help the School's to train Teacher or Principal. The Federal Government has money for poverty Children in School's why not to help the School's for possible use of restraint . AND not in the classroom .
It is to bad that this is happening years ago how was this handle ????? THE IEP'S WOULD WORK IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD ADDRESS THE BEHAVIOR PROBLEM IN THE IEP . Something set's the child off ??? lack of sleep or food, or the food the child is eating ?? It can be anything to set him or her off >> GOOD LUCK PARENT'S / TEACHER / PRINCIPAL
Hope you come up with something it could come down to one Very importance thing the life of someone ......????? SORRY BUT .....

The good old day's how fun >>

My money going to help with 10 school in LEWISTON / MAINE . Literacy specialist and social workers on top all the teachers . I SEE $$$. With Longley Elementary School with 96 percent of Longley student live in poverty . Now let me get this right Lewiston has 62 percent of Poverty over all and Longley has 96 percent of student . Something tell me that by moving some of the student to other schools to help ??? That all the SCHOOL'S can benefit from 2 MILLION from the tax payer . OH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT how bad .. Have fun with this one you all ........ Only in AMERICA .........

GOOD LUCK LEWISTON MAINE

I one thing to ask . With the state so poor where in the hell is it coming from (the $$$$)

Hay did you hear that someone from the council is looking for a old tank to ? And on top of all it is going on the Auburn side . how fun

Lewiston need more shower it will keep more people clean .... HA HA

Send me some of that heatwave. thank you

You can't take drunks off the roads why pick on a 73 year old ? Yes if he has a history of accident's his insurance will take care of him.....

The OIL will be in Maine by end of SUMMER 2010 ?? (hope not )

I like that idea subsidized housing for dog . ( BOTH TYPES )

Why not do what everyone would like TAX it and the state of MAINE would be a lot cooler ??
( RICHER ) not only the state of MAINE but all the U.S.A. ( ALL 50 STATES )

If you don't get it one way you get it one other way. $ 1.00 here and $ 2.00 there HOW fun ..
Taxes are so fun ...???

LEWISTON is no longer Lewiston .. MONEY IF LEWISTON CAN GET MONEY LOOK TO THE REFUGEES TO HELP. LEWISTON HAS BEEN GOING DOWN HILL FOR A VERY LONG TIME . I AM SORRY TO SAY THAT BUT ???? I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS TOO LATE TO TAKE BACK LEWISTON . GOOD LUCK

THANK GOD THAT LEWISTON DOES NOT GET THE SNOW IT DID BACK IN 60'S AND 70'S . EVERYONE WOULD BE OUT OF WORK BECAUSE OF NO SNOW PLOWING .. AND THEN EVERYONE WOULD WALKING .. WELL ALMOST EVERYONE ??

Maine has all the money to back that law up ???????

40 years ago this same thing happen . So what goes around comes around . That is how come I said GOOD LUCK ... I think it is good ..... for the neighborhood . Good for the children . Like I said years ago that same locale was a ice rink (ice hockey )

The Journey is just beginning boy's and girl's . So put your 12 years plus to work no more free ride . GOOD LUCK .......... CLASS OF 2010

GET OFF YOUR ASS

IF your need a cop and all the cops were at Bates . AND . So the Lewiston cop's and all the other cop's that came to this party got paid . So happy to here that. And for my spelling I did pass on spelling my word all out . So sorry that you can not fill in the word. It is so nice in MAINE your all happy and I am happy for you all . O LEWISTON THAT IS ........

MONEY TALKS WHO PICKED UP THE BILL FROM THE PARTY ?? O LEWISTON TAXES PAYS ??????? O MAINE TAXES PAYS ?????? Suc??

Here Lewiston is so POOR ........ To ask for more . NUT 'S

English do not give that ? Money talk's like I said before .

So I see that Bates College does not have a Police Department ? Why in the hell did this get out of hand in the 1st place ??????????? Bates College of all places ........ Party on ?????? $$$$$$