LEWISTON — April marks Alcohol Awareness Month, a nationwide campaign created to raise awareness about alcohol abuse and take action toward a solution. Excessive drinking is a dangerous behavior for both men and women and can lead to health-related problems like injuries, liver disease and cancer. This April, the public is encouraged to take time […]
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Rumford group offers free retail beverage service training
RUMFORD — The River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition is inviting Oxford County area businesses to attend a free retail beverage service training session Tuesday, April 9. The Maine-approved program will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Mexico Police Department at 3 Recreation Drive. The program will begin promptly at 8 a.m. […]
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UMF students won’t be prosecuted in alcohol case
FARMINGTON — State prosecutors will not prosecute two 19-year-old college students who were arrested on charges of furnishing a place for minors to consume alcohol on March 9, Assistant District Attorney Josh Robbins said Friday. The facts and circumstances surrounding the case against Emily A. Marron, 19, of Auburn and Molly J. Reed, 19, of […]
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LePage has better idea for liquor contract
It is reassuring to know the Maine Legislature can act swiftly in the face of an imminent crisis. Like when we can’t get a drink before 9 on St. Patrick’s Day morning. In order to preserve the “public peace, health and safety,” Rep. Barry Hobbins would move happy hour back to 6 a.m. when St. […]
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Sticker Shock program raises alcohol awareness
MEXICO — Shoppers in the River Valley may have noticed something different about the packaging of their favorite spirits as they were preparing for the New Year’s celebration a few weeks ago. Collaboration between the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition, Mexico Police Department and the Mexico Explorers meant the return of Project Sticker Shock to […]
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Alcohol-sensing devices may be next safety step
It is amazing to think how much safer our roads and highways have become over the past 50 years. Most of the thanks for that goes to better-designed cars and highway systems that have made accidents much more survivable than decades ago. With each new model, automakers seem to add standard equipment and options designed […]
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Free retail beverage service training course offered at Mexico PD
MEXICO — Oxford County area businesses are invited to attend a free retail beverage service training from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, at the Mexico Police Department at 3 Recreation Drive. It is being held by the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition. The “Seller Server Training for Off-premise Licensees” is designed to […]
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White House seeks to cut funding in peculiar places
BELTSVILLE, Md. — Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government’s heaviest smoker. It is a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed aluminum and gasping smoke holes, like a retrofit of equipment used on an Industrial Revolution production line. It can smoke 20 cigarettes at once and conclude which are […]
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Man pleads guilty to sex, alcohol crimes
FARMINGTON — A Weld man pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of unlawful sexual contact and four counts of allowing minors to possess or drink alcohol. James Lundy, 46, was initially indicted on three felony charges of unlawful sexual contact and three misdemeanor charges of unlawful sexual contact. He was also indicted on four counts […]
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Details emerge on state’s plan to capture more revenue from liquor contract
AUGUSTA — Lawmakers got details Friday on a plan to bring cheaper booze to residents and agency liquor stores and a chance for the state to recapture as much as $10 million. State Finance Commissioner Sawin Millett and Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations Director Gerry Reid briefed the Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs […]