Six years after the toddler disappeared from a Waterville home, the search for whoever’s responsible has intensified. WATERVILLE — Trista Reynolds is thinking a lot about her daughter, Ayla, on the sixth anniversary of the child’s mysterious disappearance. But she’s doing more than thinking. Now – for the first time since the early days […]
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Posted inObituaries, sj-web
John R. McGill
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — John’s stories were gold, his positivity contagious, his strength colossal. A stubborn fighter to the very end, John McGill bid us all farewell Wednesday, Dec. 13. Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, with a thirst for adventure, John lived a storied life across Canada, overseas, Maine and finally Florida. He modeled work ethic, […]
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Gov. Paul LePage still wants to ban junk food from food stamp program
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor says he plans to bring up his proposal to prevent the use of food stamps for junk food during a visit to Washington, D.C. Gov. Paul LePage, who blames the sugar lobby for resistance to his proposal, planned to travel to Washington for a holiday party this […]
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Portland driver, 82, who hit pedestrian in parking lot had suspended license
[media-credit id=266 align=”alignnone” width=”1024″][/media-credit] An 82-year-old man is facing multiple charges after he hit a pedestrian as he entered the parking lot of Pratt Abbott in Portland. Robert Carson of Portland, whose license was suspended, was driving an unregistered and uninspected car Wednesday afternoon when he was involved in an accident at 1055 Forest Ave., police said. […]
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Bangor police agree to bring a rescue dog home in time for Christmas
At the intersection of happenstance and need, there was a border collie and the Bangor Police Department. A woman in Waldoboro contacted the department when she saw two officers were in Washington, D.C., escorting a Wreaths Across America trip to Arlington National Cemetery. She had a request: Would the officers pick up her rescue dog? […]
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Robert Burton who led police on long manhunt gets 55 years for murder
Burton was found guilty in a jury trial that ended Oct. 9 of murder in the shooting death of his former girlfriend in the Parkman home they had once shared. BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A man who slipped into his ex-girlfriend’s home and killed her before leading police on the longest manhunt in state history […]
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Fire destroys van in Lewiston
Lewiston Fire Inspector Paul Ouellette checks out the damage inside a van at the corner of Curtis and Cottage streets in Lewiston on Friday morning while trying to determine the cause of a fire. The owner of the van, Jac Williams, said that shortly after he started it up he smelled smoke and got out […]
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Sen. Angus King renews push for more energy independence
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine Sen. Angus King is introducing a bill he says will create a push for greater energy independence. King, an independent, is calling the legislation the Next Generation Grid Resources and Infrastructure Development Act, or the GRID Act. He says it’s designed to use federal resources to support an electricity grid that’s […]
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Labor shortage forces Maine to pay private Ohio firm to fill snowplow jobs
The state is paying private contractors to drive plow trucks and work on road crews in an effort to overcome a chronic shortage of full-time transportation workers in southern Maine. Roughly 24 contractors are expected to work for Maine Department of Transportation road crews in Freeport, Alfred and Yarmouth through October 2018. The department has […]
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State planning commission postpones wind energy meeting
FARMINGTON — The Maine Land Use Planning Commission has postponed its meeting to consider whether to initiate rule-making to expand the expedited wind power permitting area in northern Franklin and Somerset counties. The meeting will be held Tuesday, Dec. 19, beginning at 9 a.m., but a review of NextEra Energy Resources’ petition to expand the […]