PHILADELPHIA — Another round of winter weather followed a day of unseasonable temperatures in the eastern United States on Monday, with several inches of snow closing schools, disrupting air traffic and snarling travel for people trying to return home from the Super Bowl. Fat, wet flakes were falling Monday afternoon and could total 8 inches […]
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Mount Blue State Park’s Winter Family Fun Day delights hundreds
WELD — More than 500 people of all ages and volunteers from across Maine enjoyed a blue-sky day at Mount Blue State Park’s sixth annual Winter Family Fun Day on Saturday. The low-cost, cabin-fever-reliever gave families the opportunity to try several sports, including Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, sliding down Center Hill and ice skating. Skis, boots […]
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Massive pileup on I-94 kills 3; more than 20 hurt
More than 20 people were injured in the crush of semitrailers and mangled passenger vehicles Thursday afternoon on the eastbound stretch of Interstate 94 connecting Chicago with Detroit. Conditions very quickly changed from clear to near-whiteout at the time of the crash. State police Lt. Jerry Williams said there was a sudden burst of heavy […]
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Otisfield is another town to see sand and salt pile depletion
OTISFIELD — For many towns in Maine, sand has been in short supply with all of this year’s treacherous weather. Otisfield has felt the same freezing sting of sand quickly running out during a winter that feels like it will never end. Sand and salt is made available for the people of Otisfield, and residents […]
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Expect bitter cold temperatures to return Monday night
GRAY — Bitter cold temperatures are returning to Maine and will likely hang around through the end of week. James Brown, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, says temperatures are expected to dip to near or below zero throughout much of Maine Monday night. Areas in the mountains could see temperatures as […]
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Ice slickens roads, tarmac in Northern New England
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Icy conditions made travel treacherous by road and air across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine on Saturday, closing roads, causing accidents and even sending a flight at Bangor International Airport skidding off a taxiway. But as the weather warmed and road crews across the region cleared ice from highways, up to […]
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Passenger jet slips off taxiway in Bangor as freezing rain pelts Maine; hundreds of accidents reported
A passenger jet slid off a taxiway at Bangor International Airport and sections of Interstate 95 were closed by extremely icy conditions Saturday that had emergency responders scrambling statewide. Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash on Cape Road in Hollis, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said. The accident happened shortly […]