AUGUSTA — State lawmakers from Western Maine landed some key committee appointments as an early Christmas present from their respective leaders in the state’s Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday. Rep. Peggy Rotundo, D- Lewiston, will again serve as the House chairwoman of the state budget-writing Appropriations Committee, a post she has held for […]
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Democrats launch talking mailer to criticize Brakey on rape comment
AUBURN — In what appears to be a first in Maine campaigns, the state’s Democratic Party is mailing a “talking” card attacking a Republican state Senate candidate for a comment he made following the National Republican Convention in 2012. The mailed card, which features a small audio device, goes after state Senate District 20 candidate […]
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Poland gets lower bill for TIF accounting
POLAND — Selectmen on Tuesday received a revised bill from John Cleveland of Community Dynamics for services on two Poland Spring Water Co. TIF accounts. The amount was $6,900, the original estimate for sorting out the financial history of the two Tax Increment Financing agreements between the town and the company between 2008 and 2014. In […]
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Cleveland says work on Poland TIFs extensive
POLAND — A state senator who runs an economic development consulting firm said Tuesday that his work separating the accounting records for a pair of tax-increment financing districts the town maintains was more involved than he expected. State Sen. John Cleveland, D-Auburn, said to alleviate any misunderstanding he would stick to the rough initial estimate […]
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Town manager, consultant to discuss Livermore Falls TIF
LIVERMORE FALLS — Nate Libby of Community Dynamics Corp. will meet with Town Manager Kristal Flagg and possibly selectmen Tuesday, July 22, to discuss a budget for the tax-increment financing district. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. at the Town Office. It is open to the public. Voters approved submitting a TIF district […]
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Hundreds honor the fallen at New Gloucester service
NEW GLOUCESTER — Honoring America’s military on Memorial Day, hundreds of people gathered along a milelong-plus parade route from Memorial School to the Lunn Hunnewell AMVETS Post 6 hall on Route 100. Gold Star mothers, Gray-New Gloucester middle and high schools bands and AMVETS gathered at the site of the future veterans memorial in Upper […]
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Maine Legislature’s energy docket set for full slate in 2014
AUGUSTA — The cost of energy in Maine, its production and transmission, as well as whether the mix of renewable sources is balanced, will continue to be debated at the State House in 2014. Lawmakers on the Legislature’s Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee have spent their past few meetings honing up as they prepare to […]
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Victim tells kidnapper, ‘I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning.’
CLEVELAND — One of three women kidnapped and repeatedly rape for a decade before their escape told her abductor Thursday that her life is just beginning while his is over now that he’s about to be sentenced to life in prison. Michelle Knight stood just feet away from Ariel Castro in a Cleveland courtroom, the […]
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Foul odor leads Ohio authorities to grisly find
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Authorities responding to a report of a foul odor from a home ultimately discovered three bodies and arrested a registered sex offender who sent police and volunteers through a poor Ohio neighborhood in a search for more victims Sunday, officials said. East Cleveland Police Chief Ralph Spotts had cautioned searchers […]