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Ski ME: Western Maine ski resorts getting ready for winter

Black Mountain’s Angry Beavers created four new glades. Sugarloaf spent $250,000 on a pair of snow machines that open up back-country terrain for an experience it says can’t be found anywhere east of Michigan. Sunday River Resort skiers are already riding its first new lift in nine years and its Christmas week bookings are up […]

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Snow on the way — and not only here

The first significant snowfall of the season is on the way this weekend. If it’s any consolation to those who have to suffer through it, at least Mainers are not alone. According to the National Weather Service, typically warm areas including Galveston, Texas, and Birmingham, Alabama, are also getting snow. Significant snow. Plowable amounts. Does […]

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Protests continue at Susan Collins’ Portland office Friday

Nine religious leaders, part of a daylong sit-in at the downtown office, were arrested after they refused to leave at the end of the day Thursday. Friday afternoon brought a fresh group of protesters to Sen. Susan Collins’ office in Portland, expressing their unhappiness with the Maine Republican’s vote for a tax reform plan working […]

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Portland police arrest 9 protesting tax plan at Sen. Susan Collins’ office

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police in Portland say they’ve arrested nine protesters who gathered in Sen. Susan Collins’ office to oppose a bill to overhaul the federal tax code. Collins, a Republican, was in Washington on Thursday and didn’t meet with the religious leaders who were protesting. Police say they were peaceful, but refused to […]

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Westbrook library wants to add cameras to discourage ‘sexually deviant behavior’

The problem behavior includes sex acts and use of computers to access pornography, according to police. WESTBROOK — The city is looking to upgrade the security cameras at Walker Memorial Library to better ward off sexually inappropriate behavior there. According to Police Chief Janine Roberts, people have been engaging in “sexually deviant behavior” at the […]

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Sen. Susan Collins may change vote if GOP reneges on her changes

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sen. Susan Collins may change her vote on the GOP tax overhaul if her amendments are not included in the final version that emerges from conference committee, the Republican said. Collins’ comments, made on the same day nine religious leaders protesting the tax plan were arrested at her office in Portland, […]

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Patricia M. Mathieu

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Patricia M. (Levesque) Mathieu, 69 years old, of Lewiston, died unexpectedly of natural causes on Oct. 28, 2017, in Ann Arbor, Mich. Pat was born in Lewiston on Sept. 18, 1948, to Bernadette (Turcotte) Levesque and Roland “Joe Pete” Levesque. She graduated from Lewiston High School in 1967, married her high […]