AUBURN — Working to expand into a four-season resort, Lost Valley Ski Area is adding an outdoor water park this summer. Featuring nine large inflatable waterslides and play features, the resort has set a grand opening for Monday, June 20, but will have several “preview days” starting June 16. The resort intends to be open from […]
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Tainted at the tap: Michigan guv seeks tougher limits
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In proposing a tougher limit for lead in drinking water, Gov. Rick Snyder wants to lift Michigan from the depths of the Flint crisis to being a national model for lead monitoring that could help assess whether current rules are too lax. Nearly 1,500 water systems serving 3.3 million Americans have […]
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Poland Spring water truck crashes in New Vineyard
NEW VINEYARD — A tanker-truck hauling 8,200 gallons of water swerved to avoid an oncoming car and went off Route 27, hit trees and rolled over early Wednesday, Maine State Police Trooper Reid Bond said. Driver Kevin Couillard, 40, of Gray was not injured in the 1 a.m. crash, Bond said. Couillard maneuvered the tractor-trailer […]
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Lewiston, Auburn take steps to keep lead out of water
Maximum Healthy Levels of Chemicals in Drinking Water | HealthGrove Auburn Water District Superintendent Sid Hazelton said his district and the Lewiston Water Department have hired engineers to study what they do to keep lead and other contaminants out of the drinking water supply. “Any lead people are seeing in their water does not come […]
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Lewiston neighborhood without water Wednesday
LEWISTON — About 300 households received notice Tuesday morning that they’d be without water most of Wednesday related to work on a new bridge crossing Main Street. Stefanie Mills, owner of the Robin’s Nest day care on Switzerland Road, said it wasn’t nearly enough time to let parents know she’d have to close. “The state […]
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Fire crews respond to ammonia leak at Poland Spring bottling plant
POLAND — Fire departments from several towns responded to an ammonia leak Thursday morning at the Poland Spring Water Co. bottling plant. The building was evacuated and four people were sent to area hospitals to be examined, officials said. A spokesman for Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston said four patients were brought in for […]
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Jay water district puts out third boil-water order
JAY — The Jay Village Water District has issued another boil-water order, which is effective until a break in a waterline on Main Street is fixed and water is restored. The order only pertains to water district customers who lost water on Hyde and Spring streets and Forest Circle. Those customers need to boil water after water […]
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Norway woman pleads not guilty to water-dumping scam
PARIS — A Norway woman accused of scamming state benefits by returning dumped water bottles has entered a not guilty plea in court. Linda Goodman, 57, faces a single count of unlawful trafficking in SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, a Class D misdemeanor. She is accused of purchasing water with state benefits, emptying the bottles and […]
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Shaw’s, Hannaford recall store brand bottled water
PORTLAND — Shaw’s and Hannaford stores are recalling house brands of bottled water after E. coli bacteria was found in the water’s supply. The Portland Press Herald reports Shaw’s brand of bottled water and Hannaford’s Nature’s Place water are both bottled by Niagara Bottling Co. in Pennsylvania. The bacteria was detected at one of the […]