The nonprofit shark research group Ocearch has tweeted a photo of a great white shark that it says it spotted off the coast of Portland. The group says the male shark is one of four that it has tagged during its current project. The tweet says the shark is 9 feet 8 inches long. The […]
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UMaine kicker Kenny Doak bounces back
Maine kicker Kenny Doak attempts a field goal as Derek Deoul holds the ball during the Black Bears’ spring football scrimmage in Orono Friday in May. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald) ORONO — Kenny Doak is discovering he has a lot of new friends these days. “Yeah, I went to get a haircut the other […]
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Fears over chronic wasting disease give deer hunters pause
Maine’s deer biologist, Nathan Bieber, said his greatest fear about chronic wasting disease is the toll it could take on hunting — particularly given the state’s recent efforts to recruit more hunters. And some hunters agree they would be wary if the disease spreads to Maine, even though there have been no reported cases of […]
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Maine company fuels fight against spread of flu
SCARBOROUGH — As another flu season is about to begin, a company in Scarborough that makes rapid diagnostic tests to determine in minutes whether a patient has the flu is ready. Maine and the nation recently suffered through one of the worst seasons for influenza – perhaps since the H1N1 flu outbreak in 2009 – with […]
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Foliage in Maine is at its peak this weekend
Hit the road, leaf-peepers! That’s the message behind the state of Maine’s most recent foliage report, which says the majority of the state is at its peak color-wise. Northern Maine is a little past peak and southern-most York County is almost there. The National Weather Service is predicting sun all day, with temperatures in the […]
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College Football: Doak delivers again for Black Bears
KINGSTON, R.I. — Improbable? Nah, last week was improbable. This one was stunning, mind-boggling, jaw-dropping, even a little outrageous. For the second straight week, Kenny Doak kicked a field goal as time expired to lift the University of Maine to victory, this time with a 39-yarder Saturday as the Black Bears rallied past Rhode Island […]
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Dems, GOP in Maine both claim Kavanaugh battle energized party
Within an hour of Sen. Susan Collins declaring her support for Brett Kavanaugh last week, a progressive activist group made its own announcement. Rather than protest against Collins, the Maine Common Good Coalition said it would be “channeling our outrage” elsewhere by knocking on doors to support Democrats this November. Yet as a Republican State […]
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First phase of Scarborough Downs redevelopment approved
The Scarborough Planning Board on Tuesday unanimously approved subdivision and site plans for the first phase of the redevelopment of Scarborough Downs. The multiphase project calls for building four 12-unit apartment buildings, 16 single-level duplexes and four eight-unit garden-style condominium buildings between Route 1 and the racetrack. The nearly 500-acre property was purchased in January […]
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College hockey: Black Bears show strength in exhbition with PEI
ORONO — The University of Maine hockey team might not yet be back among the ranks of the league’s iron, but the Black Bears might be as close as they’ve been in years. Competition notwithstanding in a 6-1 drubbing of the University of Prince Edward Island in an exhibition tuneup for the regular season Monday […]
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Women's basketball: Big expectations for Black Bears this season
Maine interim head coach Amy Vachon calls to her players in the first half of their NCAA college basketball game against Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss., on Dec. 17, 2017. (AP File Photo) ORONO — Amy Vachon stood near midcourt and watched as her University of Maine women’s basketball players went through a defensive drill […]