PORTLAND — The University of Maine baseball team scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and added three more in the bottom of the eighth to defeat Boston College 9-4 on Tuesday night at Hadlock Field. Michael Fransoso led the Black Bears (26-22) with three hits in the game. Maine grabbed a […]
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Plum Creek, groups OK deal creating largest conservation easement in U.S.
PORTLAND — Plum Creek Timber Co. has completed a deal with The Nature Conservancy and the Forest Society of Maine that puts 363,000 acres in Maine’s North Woods into a conservation easement that bans development and limits logging while allowing public access for hunting, snowmobiling and other recreation. The swath of land near Moosehead Lake […]
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Bangor nurses take contract issues to the street
BANGOR — Union nurses at Eastern Maine Medical Center and their supporters took to the streets Tuesday in an informational picket aimed at raising awareness about issues they say are barriers to a contract agreement. Roughly 60 people were on hand carrying signs as the four-hour picket got under way about 4 p.m. on the […]
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Group tries to keep island community viable through affordable housing project
ISLESBORO — Rick Rogers is a recent transplant to this Penobscot Bay island community, but he understands its challenges. “We’re trying to keep these places from turning into retirement communities,” he said Tuesday. When young people leave, when a school closes, when middle- and working-class families no longer can afford housing, “it’s over,” said Rogers, […]
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Norwegians: Maine offshore wind project delayed over lack of state support, tax credit uncertainty
A demonstration project of a floating wind power turbine that was to be built in the Gulf of Maine is facing construction delays due to uncertainty over state and federal support. Norwegian energy giant Statoil is the developer. According to a report in the Norwegian newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad, “Statoil currently lacks the necessary state support […]
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Let voters speak on 2012 bond proposal
Maine has gone one year without passing a bond package and we should not go another. That’s why it is critical for legislators to act to pass the $95.6 million package put together last month by legislative committee. Gov. Paul LePage, who adamantly opposed last year’s package, should then stand clear and allow voters to […]
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Budget, bonds on Maine lawmakers’ agenda
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The state budget, bonds and property rights are on the agenda as Maine lawmakers return to the State House to conclude their 2012 session. Legislation to fill a roughly $80 million hole in the state Department of Health and Human Services budget, largely through MaineCare cuts, must be acted on after […]
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State budget skips the cost of tax breaks
“This Legislature will not repeat the mistakes of the past by using a one-time windfall to put a Band-Aid over our broken system in the hopes that the problem will go away,” House Speaker Robert Nutting, R-Oakland, told reporters last week. Whew. That’s a relief. Until you consider what the Republicans will do instead: Grant […]
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Three die 4-wheeling when Jeep gets stuck
WINDSOR (AP) — Police in Maine say one woman and two men have been found dead after their Jeep became stuck in a bog in Windsor. The Kennebec County Sheriff’s Department tells the Kennebec Journal that the three went four-wheeling and were last seen alive around 7 p.m. Friday. Their bodies were discovered Saturday evening. […]
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Lobster hostilities lead to boat sinkings in Maine
Someone this week sabotaged two lobster boats, allowing them to drift free and flood with water before washing ashore in this postcard-pretty harbor. The dispute has shone a light on the unwritten rules of the sea, where fishermen often take matters into their own hands to settle grudges. Lobstermen for generations have cut trap lines […]