With around 4 feet of snow falling in seven days, skiers were woo-hooing at Sunday River in Newry on Monday and Guthries owners were hoping to put the Lewiston restaurant’s worst sales week of the year behind them. Central Maine Powersports in Lewiston was busy with last-minute snowmobilers outfitting their rides and the Maine Turnpike […]
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Another day, another snowstorm in Maine
GRAY — More snow is piling on much of Maine in the wake of a blizzard that dumped two feet on parts of the state. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray says Gray has 3.1 inches of snow, Paris has 2 inches, Sebago has 4 inches and Caribou has 3.9 inches Snow […]
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Digging out, digging in and digging it — Maine’s snow businesses happy with Juno
But overall the Twin Cities and Maine in general handled Juno with relatively little pain, according to state and local officials. “We’re doing pretty good,” said Joanne Potvin, the director of Androscoggin County’s Emergency Management Agency. Potvin said overnight Tuesday there were no reported incidents, and that agency activities were largely back to normal returning […]
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As winter storm Juno wallops Maine, LePage declares state of emergency
AUGUSTA – Maine Gov. Paul LePage urged residents to stay off the roads and hunker down Tuesday as winter storm Juno whipped across the state causing blizzard conditions and flooding along the coastline. LePage also announced all state offices would be closed Tuesday. LePage made the official declaration at about 4:30 a.m. Many schools and […]
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Lewiston student jabs Bill Webster with cool tweet
@LewistonSuper Be like, “You can go to school.” pic.twitter.com/UpFJ3jGYua — Nick (@Nick_Kelly18) January 12, 2015 On Wednesday, the Sun Journal received an email from Twitter saying a tweet of Webster was “trending in your network.” It was getting re-tweeted a lot. The picture is a graphic with Webster’s face — complete with a heavy snow […]