AUGUSTA — There is widespread agreement that the Republican State Convention over the weekend suffered from a lack of organization after being taken over by a strong contingent of supporters of Ron Paul. What is unclear is whether the two-day event will end up being all for naught if the results of the convention are […]
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New rules update Maine mining regulations
Gov. Paul LePage has signed a new mining regulatory bill, but that doesn’t mean mining is new in Maine. In fact, it has a long history in the state going back to the early 1800s, when iron and lead extractions added to the state’s better-known granite and limestone quarrying industries. While renewed interest in metallic […]
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Maine men behaving badly, believe it or not
Reading police stories is sometimes reading the chronicles of stupidity. You just have to shake your head. To wit: A 19-year-old Mount Desert Island man was charged with reckless conduct after someone threw a can of gasoline on a bonfire at 3 a.m. Sunday, according to a story from the Bangor Daily News. First, when […]
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Campaign cash for some of Maine’s U.S. Senate candidates coming largely from away
LEWISTON — In the race to replace U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, Lisbon’s Scott D’Amboise stands out. D’Amboise, in the race the longest of the 11 hopefuls, has raised more than $609,000 — and spent $487,000 of it, all apparently without running a single campaign ad. Yet the tea party-leaning Republican, who first entered the […]
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Outdoors in Maine: Gatherers have more spring in their step
For those of us in more northerly Maine, there is at long last a hint of spring in the air. Soon it will be time to go fiddleheadin’. For the True Gatherer, the first fiddlehead green that pokes through the sandy silt in the lowlands near brooks and streams stirs an inner joy. I count […]
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Snowe addresses Maine Republican convention
AUGUSTA — U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe addressed the Maine Republican Party Convention on Sunday for the final time as a member of Congress and urged the audience to continue pushing the GOP as the “party of potential.” Snowe shocked Maine Republicans — and Mainers in general — when she announced in late February that her […]
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40 percent of Maine births are to single mothers: Experts look at what it means
Game over. She was better off single. Catherine Audet got pregnant by someone she’d dated casually. He wanted an abortion. She said forget it. “There was definitely no marriage talk,” she said. Stephanie Mills found out she was expecting after she and her boyfriend of a year-and-a-half had broken up. Tying the knot came up, […]
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University hiring reflects human nature
Any time an important public position opens a familiar process follows. There’s the national search, followed by a winnowing of resumes, followed by a first interview, a second and sometimes a third. Two or three top candidates emerge and the best person is chosen. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to work. That the […]
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Maine and NH troopers rescue man from bridge
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — State troopers from New Hampshire and Maine and a local police department are being credited with saving a man who was threatening to jump from the Piscataqua Bridge on Interstate 95 between the two states. New Hampshire State Police say they were called to the bridge at about 8 p.m. Wednesday […]
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Drug crisis may require tough choices
Maine is in the midst of an opioid explosion and our region is being rocked the hardest. As the Sun Journal reported Sunday, oxycodone sales in Oxford and Androscoggin counties were up four-fold between 2000 and 2010, the highest rate of increase among 11 zones in Maine, with retail sales going from 11,085 grams in […]