Full coverage: March storm howls across region (function(d, s, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) return; let fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; let js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = ‘https://embed.samdesk.io/js/2/embed.js’; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, ‘script’, ‘sam-embed-js’)); Cherie Burke contends with blowing snow during a blustery storm, Tuesday, March 14, 2017, in Portland. A late-season storm is hitting the Northeast, […]
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Justice Dept. asks for more time on wiretapping evidence
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a Monday deadline, the Justice Department asked lawmakers for more time to provide evidence backing up President Donald Trump’s unproven assertion that his predecessor wiretapped his New York skyscraper during the election. The request came as the White House appeared to soften Trump’s explosive allegation. The House intelligence committee said it […]
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Maine tax credit program spurs investments, but needs refinement
AUGUSTA (AP) — A new state report is praising and also raising questions about a tax credit program that directed millions of dollars to a paper mill that shut down within 14 months. The Legislature’s Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability says the capital investment program spurs $21.67 of value for every $1 in […]
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Court keeps alive lawsuit by Oakhurst Dairy drivers
PORTLAND (AP) — The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has kept alive a lawsuit by Oakhurst Dairy drivers seeking more than $10 million in an overtime pay dispute. Plaintiffs sued in 2014 on behalf of 75 drivers, arguing Oakhurst Dairy and its parent company, Dairy Farmers of America, violated the Fair Labor […]
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Looking Back on March 14
100 years ago, 1917More than passing interest centers on the closing of the Wiggin store in Auburn, where they have just taken down the old sign which for half a century marked this familiar spot. Weather-beaten and almost unreadable, this sign has stood for certain significant things. It not only stood for one of the […]
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Spruce Mountain headed back to Mountain Valley Conference
Three years after moving to the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference, Spruce Mountain High School is about to return to the Mountain Valley Conference. In a recent informal straw poll, the MVC’s 13 member schools unanimously approved Spruce Mountain’s request to return to the conference for all sports except football starting in the fall of 2017. […]
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Lamb joins FMH full time
FARMINGTON — Gail Lamb, DO, has joined the medical staff of the emergency department at Franklin Memorial Hospital full time. Since 2008, she has worked at FMH on an as-needed basis in family medicine, hospital care and in the emergency department. Her most recent appointment was as an emergency physician at Sebasticook Valley Hospital in […]
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Pauline C. Gauthier
GREENE — Pauline C. (Dostie) Gauthier, 81, passed away peacefully Saturday, March 11, at her home in Greene, surrounded by her loving family and friends. She was born in Augusta on July 3, 1935, the daughter of the late Alonzo and Ida (Theriault) Dostie. Pauline married Paul B. Gauthier on Nov. 9, 1957, at St. […]