Very warm temps across the region with lots of melting taking place. Cooler Tue as a cold front moves through today. pic.twitter.com/c728pz0eAM — NWS Gray (@NWSGray) February 1, 2016 LEWISTON — January gave us warmer temperatures than expected — and much less snowfall. For some, these variations hurt business and limited the ability to participate […]
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Is winter finally here?
LEWISTON — The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch bulletin for the Androscoggin area, and we should expect the first big snowstorm of the season. Chris Kimble, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, said we can expect 4 to 8 inches of accumulation in Lewiston, with the heaviest snowfall between […]
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Festival Plaza rink key feature of Auburn Winter Festival 2016
AUBURN — The city will convert Festival Plaza into a big open-air ice rink for the annual Winter Festival celebration at the end of the month. Jasmine McLoughlin, Auburn’s recreation specialist, said the downtown rink will be one of two key venues for the annual festival, scheduled for Jan. 29-31. “It will cover the whole […]
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Harsh winter took heavy toll on states’ budgets
BOSTON (AP) — Winter’s full fury arrived late in much of the country but once it did it was relentless, quickly exhausting snow removal budgets and pushing the resources of state transportation agencies to their limit as they fought to keep highways safe and passable, according to a first-of-its-kind survey. The American Association of State […]
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How ‘not to get eaten’ taught at Navy course near Rangeley
Location: Somewhere near Rangeley, Maine. Time: 0800 Instructors’ names have been changed to protect their identities. While most people think the Navy left Maine when Brunswick Naval Air Station closed, there’s a small contingent in the western Maine woods quietly working with one mission in mind: to make sure every sailor and Marine makes it […]
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Snow piles may delay Lewiston Cleanup Week
LEWISTON — Slowly melting snow piles may push the city’s annual Cleanup Week into May. “We know people like to get out in their yards to clean stuff up,” Public Works Director David Jones said. “They might have a little better luck if the snow melts a little.” Lewiston collects small brush at the curb […]
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The Hot Corner: Maine youth sports calendar needs some work
Can’t vouch for any scientific method of quantifying it, but I’m certain I’ve heard multiple mental health professionals proclaim March “the most depressing month to live in Maine.” Most of us didn’t require such a revelation, of course. I celebrated Friday’s alleged first day of spring by thawing a frozen pipe underneath my kitchen sink. […]
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Mixed bag of weather expected for weekend
Be honest. You already put your shovels and ice scrapers away, didn’t you? Not to worry. The storm expected to slip into Maine on Saturday night isn’t forecast to be a killer. What it will be is wet, with snow changing to rain, which will change to sleet and then back to snow again, and […]
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Equipment decisions made in Livermore
LIVERMORE — Selectpersons voted at their meeting Monday night to take the Case backhoe that has been used at the transfer station out of service and replace the arms on the JCB backhoe. Highway Foreman Roger Ferland said that an ultrasonic inspection of the front-loader arms of the JCB backhoe completed by Archie Ray of […]
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Street Talk: The winter of jungle cats and wet feet (or something)
In an Evernote notebook dated Jan. 14 lies a truncated mutant of a column which rants on about the feeble nature of winter to that point. “Hardly any snow!” the archaic column raves. “Why, it’s practically spring already!” The column was never finished and I think you know why. Winter came, winter saw — and […]