ROXBURY — The Board of Selectmen will discuss bids for a town website and the paving of the Town Hall parking lot at a selectmen’s meeting Tuesday night. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at the Roxbury Town Office. Chairman John Sutton said during a 2014 selectmen meeting that the summer and capital road work […]
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Maine.gov returns to service after suspected cyberattack
AUGUSTA — Maine’s government website is back online after it was briefly down due to an external cyberattack. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said a “denial-of-service” attack caused the website to become briefly inaccessible on Monday. That type of hacker attack occurs when external data requests overwhelm the server that hosts the website. The website came […]
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Rumford board OKs taxi licenses, wants town website upgraded
RUMFORD — Selectmen approved licenses for two taxicab companies Thursday night and decided they wanted to jazz up the town website. The board also reappointed Jennifer Kreckel as town attorney. Gilbert Scott received a license for his new service, Private Taxi, which was delayed when Selectman Frank DiConzo asked board Chairman Greg Buccina if Scott […]
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Norway website more user-friendly, attractive
NORWAY — The town website has a new look. “It’s much improved,” Town Clerk Shirley Boyce said. She, Selectman Bruce Cook and General Assistance Administrator Shannon Moxcey developed a plan to make the site more user-friendly and attractive, not only to town office employees and residents, but particularly to tourists who may be looking for […]
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Healthcare.gov shoppers in Maine paying $99 for premiums on average
Mainers who signed up for insurance through Healthcare.gov paid an average of $99 per month in premiums, according to federal figures released Wednesday. That’s about a third of the $282 per month Maine consumers paid in 2010, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The figures reflect those who buy their own coverage in the “individual […]
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Obama administration says it’s on track to meet health care website goal, but questions remain
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it will meet its self-imposed deadline of fixing the troubled health care website so that 50,000 people can log in at the same time starting late Saturday. Yet questions remain about the stability of the site, the volume of traffic it can handle and the quality of the […]
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New Livermore website up and running
LIVERMORE — The town has a new website — www.livermoremaine.org. Not everything is on it but it will be updated as time allows. “Our website has been further updated with 2013 Board of Selectpersons, meeting minutes, tax maps, tax commitment book, Pollard Scholarship information and additional code enforcement information,” Administrative Assistant Kurt Schaub said. “It is […]
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Healthcare.gov site down again; HHS Secretary Sebelius faces grilling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans said Sunday they intend to press Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Obama administration’s troubled launch of healthcare.gov, the online portal to buy insurance — even as the website suffered yet another setback. A component of the online system that has been working relatively well experienced an outage […]
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Website contractors point fingers at Obama admin.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration’s health insurance marketplace said Thursday the site’s crippling problems trace back to insufficient testing and changes that government officials made just prior to going live. Who’s to blame? The first congressional hearing into what went wrong dug into issues of website architecture […]
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New school district website work in progress
FARMINGTON — The new Mt. Blue Regional School District website is a work in progress. Leanne Condon, assistant superintendent/director of curriculum, gave RSU 9 school directors an overview of the new site Tuesday. The old site was taken down and a new one is up but still being worked on. The site is www.mtbluersd.org. Some […]