AUGUSTA — State biologists on Tuesday recommended issuing 84,745 any-deer permits for this fall’s hunt — an increase of 28 percent from last year and the highest total since Maine launched its permit system in 1986. State Wildlife Division Director Judy Camuso told the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s Advisory Council that in all […]
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Deadline looms for switching parties ahead of primaries
AUGUSTA (AP) — The deadline for Mainers to switch parties to vote in the June 12 primary elections is drawing near. Election officials say the deadline is Friday in most municipalities to switch parties to vote in Republican or Democratic primaries. Unenrolled voters don’t face the same requirement; they can register with a party on […]
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Lewiston schools are hiring
LEWISTON — Want a job? Do you like children? The Lewiston School Department is hiring. It needs 22 teachers and 25 educational technicians, plus speech therapists and support staff, including cafeteria and maintenance workers. To drum up job candidates, the department is holding its first job fair May 31 at The Green Ladle restaurant that’s […]
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Let there be dark: Can Maine attract visitors to its night sky?
The state’s many precious resources include the largest light-pollution-free swath in the eastern half of the U.S. ?A new effort is underway to protect it with ‘dark sky’ designations and promote it as an out-of-this-world attraction. Maine has many natural resources, but a new movement is focused on one that hardly ever gets talked about. […]
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Turner trucker charged with using phony plates to avoid tolls
AUBURN — A long-haul truck driver from Turner was arrested Thursday on the Maine Turnpike in Auburn and charged with using phony license plates on his rig for up to six years to avoid paying more than $1,300 in tolls, state police said. Danny Olson, 61, owner of Olson Transportation, had license plates in the […]
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LePage says bike helmet saved his life, will need shoulder surgery
Gov. Paul LePage disclosed Friday that he was hit by a car while bicycling in Florida in November and will require surgery. LePage said the accident happened Nov. 22 in Daytona Beach when he was riding his bike with his wife, Ann, who was riding behind him. A young woman who driving a car was […]
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Maine couple stuck with a lemon of a vehicle – and now they know why
When Kristi Smith and her husband, Patrick, bought their Subaru from a Standish man in January 2017, she knew something seemed off. The 2005 Outback had only 117,000 miles on it, and for the Smith family, the price was right – $3,500. “We went to go buy the car and the guy wouldn’t look me […]
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Some Maine taxpayers may have to amend their 2017 returns, LePage warns
Gov. Paul LePage warned Thursday that some taxpayers might need to file amendments to their 2017 tax returns because the Legislature failed to pass a bill to conform the state’s income tax code to the new federal tax code. But a liberal economic policy research group said the changes affect only a small group of […]
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Police say 17 guns, 45,000 ammo rounds stolen from Maine home
MILBRIDGE (AP) — Officials in a Maine town say a man who had 17 guns and 45,000 rounds of ammunition stolen in a burglary is offering a reward for their return. Milbridge Police Chief Lewis Pinkham says the burglary occurred sometime between when the man left for the winter in November and last month, when […]
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Solutions remain elusive as group home crisis looms
Advocates for adults with intellectual disabilities worried about group home closures peppered a top state official with questions Monday, but no definitive steps were taken to alleviate a potential crisis that could begin this summer. Ricker Hamilton, commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, met with the Maine Coalition for Housing and […]