Gov. Paul LePage should order an immediate investigation into how state property was sold for less than 40 percent of its assessed value to a state official. Fortunately for taxpayers, Attorney General William Schneider last week voided the sale, pointing out that state law forbids such obvious conflicts of interest. LePage has since suspended all […]
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Maine football player dies in accident
ORONO — A red-shirt freshman football player on the University of Maine football squad died Sunday as a result of a motorcycle accident in Pennsylvania. Charles Kyeremeh, 20, died in an accident on Route 125, just outside of Donaldson, Pa. At least one other person was hurt in the crash that involved five motorcycles in […]
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Gas prices up 10 cents per gallon in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Weeks of dropping gasoline prices in Maine have come to an end and the average price has risen by a dime per gallon in the past week. The price monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com says average retail gasoline prices in Maine were $3.73 per gallon on Sunday, 10 cents per gallon more than […]
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Finally, Maine has a chance to breathe freely
We all despise government regulation. Until, that is, we have to listen to the neighbor’s barking dog. Or live in the shadow of his too-tall wall. Or downwind of his smoky wood stove. Which has long been Maine’s position beneath prevailing winds that sweep across America’s industrial heartland and then dump toxins in our waterways […]
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Report shows Maine still fattest state in New England
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A new report on obesity by the Trust for America’s Health shows Maine remains the most obese state in New England. But other New England states including New Hampshire and Vermont are catching up. In its annual ranking of states for obesity, Maine ranks 27th out of the 50 states and […]
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Voter groups want to restore same-day registration
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Secretary of State Charles Summers has approved the wording for a People’s Veto referendum question aimed at restoring the status quo when it comes to voter registration. A new law ends Maine’s practice of allowing people to register to vote on Election Day. The bill signed into law by Gov. […]
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Teen dies after swim in pool
PORTLAND — Officials say a 15-year-old boy died after being pulled from a swimming pool at an apartment complex in Portland. Police told WMTW-TV they got a call just after 7 p.m. Tuesday about a suspected drowning at the Princeton Pines apartment complex on Forest Avenue. The boy was pulled from the pool by firefighters […]
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Injury doesn’t bode well for fireworks law
Talk about blowing up in your face. Three days after Gov. Paul LePage signed a bill making fireworks legal in Maine beginning in 2012, a boy was seriously injured by fireworks in coastal Georgetown. “The father was lighting off the fireworks on a back porch when one seemingly misfired and exploded,” according to a sheriff’s […]
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‘Maine’ depicts lives of four flawed, but strong women
“Maine,” by J. Courtney Sullivan, Knopf, 400 pages, $25.95 Back in the 1940s, Alice’s husband, Daniel, won, in a crazy bet, three acres of land along the coast of Maine. Daniel’s brothers helped the young couple build a summer cottage on the grounds, and so began a long family love affair with this particular patch […]
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Women’s Soccer: A New Beginning For Hammond
New school, new team, new friends and a new beginning. That’s this week in a nutshell for Bri Hammond. The former Leavitt standout soccer player has embarked on the next phase of her life and soccer career. She arrived at the University of Maine on Tuesday to begin summer classwork and soccer workouts. “It hasn’t […]