SACO (AP) — Police say they’ve charged a 23-year-old man for allegedly evading tolls on the Maine Turnpike by driving across a motel property to avoid a toll plaza. Maine State Police say 23-year-old Mathieu Bosse of Saco is charged with theft and driving to endanger. Trooper Steven Stubbs said Bosse has been seen exiting […]
2011
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Twin Cities ring in new year
LEWISTON — I don’t care how much ice you had on hand for your New Year’s Eve party. There is just no way you had as much as the guys out on Randall Road. Just after sundown, a group of men and a team of boys were out for what may become a New Year’s […]
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Passing motorist spots fire; barn saved
A passing motorist likely saved a barn from catching fire on Ridge Road in Wales on Thursday night, a fire official said. A man from Monmouth driving past the farm at 222 Ridge Road noticed smoke coming from a barn, Wales Fire Chief Anthony Siderio said. After stopping to investigate, the motorist went around to […]
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Source of Saunders fire still under investigation
FRYEBURG — The owner of the former Saunders Brothers wood mill said Friday that she will open a furniture factory here this year, despite losing the main manufacturing plant to fire Thursday. “I’m not going to give up. It’s a new year. People need work,” Louise Jonaitis of Portland said Friday. “I’m going to go […]
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Our picks for the top ten news stories of the year
1. The race for governor in Maine was so close, candidate Paul LePage had to wait until the morning after Election Day to find out he had won. The Waterville native defeated independent Eliot Cutler and three other candidates to become the first Republican to be elected Maine governor since John McKernan in 1990. LePage, […]
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Roger Blais: Selling the business, keeping his scissors
AUBURN — By night, in the summer of 1967, The Innkeepers rocked stages up and down the East Coast and Canada. By day, guitarist Roger Blais poked inside his host city’s barbershops asking for pointers. How better to be a better barber? “I would go into salons and pick their brains,” Blais, 62, said. “I just […]
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New Year’s resolutions, elementary school style
LEWISTON — Tanner Burgess, 9, has a New Year’s resolution that could make a difference in his life. “To keep my name off the board,” he said. “If you get your name on the board you miss recess,” the third-grader said last week from a Montello Elementary School classroom. His resolution at home is to […]