PARIS — A business partnership has donated 150 acres abutting the Oxford County Regional Airport in Oxford to the county. Fiddle Head Partners, an Oxford-based partnership of John Schiavi and Win Carrick, has transferred a deed for the parcel to the county for free. County Administrator Scott Cole said the non-cash, charitable contribution was a culmination […]
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Maine airports get $450,000 in federal money
PORTLAND — The Federal Aviation Administration is giving $450,000 to two Maine airports for operations and environmental assessment expenses. Houlton International Airport will receive $300,000 and Sugarloaf Regional Airport in Carrabassett will receive $150,000. Houlton’s money will pay for construction of a 3,400-square-foot snow removal equipment building. Sugar Loaf’s grant will fund an environmental study […]
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Men stopped for guns at Bangor airport
BANGOR — Transportation Security Administration officers say they have stopped two people who attempted to bring guns past a security checkpoint at Bangor International Airport in the last several days. The agency said Thursday that officers stopped a man on May 21 after finding a firearm among his clothing in a suitcase. They also said […]
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Airports get $2.2 million for upgrades to runways, roads
WASHINGTON — Maine communities have been awarded nearly $2.2 million for local airport improvements. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King announced Friday the Federal Aviation Administration is funding infrastructure upgrades at nine airports. Recipients of the funds include Bangor International Airport, Knox County Regional Airport, Princeton Municipal Airport and Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport as well […]
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Augusta man gets 2 years for pot plot at airport
AUGUSTA (AP) — An Augusta man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for growing marijuana inside the security fence at Augusta State Airport. Marlon Cloutier was also sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to four years of probation. The Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/1fJxmsr ) reported that the 48-year-old Cloutier pleaded guilty […]
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Auburn airport looks for someone to tend its cafe
AUBURN — Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport officials are looking for new operators to take over the operation’s small cafe. “It’s busy place, especially on the weekends,” airport assistant Debbie Berube said. “Some people fly in just to go eat. And of course, with the local people coming out to see the planes fly in, it got […]
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Ice slickens roads, tarmac in Northern New England
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Icy conditions made travel treacherous by road and air across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine on Saturday, closing roads, causing accidents and even sending a flight at Bangor International Airport skidding off a taxiway. But as the weather warmed and road crews across the region cleared ice from highways, up to […]
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Passenger jet slips off taxiway in Bangor as freezing rain pelts Maine; hundreds of accidents reported
A passenger jet slid off a taxiway at Bangor International Airport and sections of Interstate 95 were closed by extremely icy conditions Saturday that had emergency responders scrambling statewide. Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash on Cape Road in Hollis, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said. The accident happened shortly […]
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Bangor Airport lays off 15 workers; more coming
BANGOR (AP) — Bangor International Airport has let go 15 part-time employees and more job cuts are on the way. Airport Director Tony Caruso said he met with the affected employees Thursday and about half were given the chance to stay with the airport on an on-call basis. Caruso told WABI-TV (http://bit.ly/1kfaOH5 ) that the […]
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Friends, veterans reflect on legacy of troop greeter Bill Knight
BANGOR — Bill Knight was at Bangor International Airport at 2 a.m. one day in 2004 when filmmakers Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly first met him. He was standing in the hallway, shaking hands with troops. Just hours earlier, doctors told Knight he had prostate cancer, Gaudet and Pullapilly said. That didn’t matter much. He […]