PERU — After months of preparation, the Friends of Peru Elementary School have officially announced the revival of the Peru Summerfest. The Summerfest is scheduled to take place on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 5 and 6, at the Peru Elementary School. Nick Waugh, chairman of the group, said Summerfest began about 20 years ago but […]
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Norway medical group announces $10 million expansion
NORWAY — Western Maine Health Care Corporation has announced the construction of a new medical office building in downtown as part of a $10 million project to meet increasing out-of-hospital care needs. The proposed 25,500-square-foot office building will be built behind Main Street on a three-acre vacant lot along Pikes Hill Road, which was once the site […]
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Tax commissioner becomes deputy finance chief
AUGUSTA — Maine’s associate commissioner for tax policy has been appointed deputy finance chief. Gov. Paul LePage said on Monday that Michael Allen has become the acting deputy commissioner of Finance for the Department of Administrative and Financial Services. The Republican governor said Allen will also continue to serve in his previous role. Allen is […]
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Human trafficking conference coming to Pineland in New Gloucester
AUBURN — Earlier this month, two men and a woman were arrested in Gorham on sex trafficking charges. The three were accused of arranging for a 19-year-old homeless woman to engage in sex acts with strangers for money through ads on a website. She fled the Gorham home after one of the trio threatened to […]
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Bee Line Cable subscribers may lose MTV network channels
FARMINGTON — Some cable television channels may go black if local provider Bee Line Cable does not reach an agreement with Viacom, owner of MTV Networks, by midnight Monday. The chances of 12 channels in the Bee Line Cable basic package, including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, going off are extremely high, Bee Line General […]
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Track and Field: Local youths walk at Millrose Games
Two 14-year-old local racewalkers became the youngest women ever to compete in the event Saturday at the historic Millrose Games in New York City. Sydney Sirois of St. Dominic Academy and Kayla Allen of Lewiston High School finished as the fifth and sixth Americans, respectively, in the event. Sirois was eighth overall in the field […]
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Excavator adds to forestry students’ education
MEXICO — Forestry students at Region 9 School of Applied Technology are learning more skills because there is now an excavator for them to use. Students other than those learning timber harvesting have been drawn to the forestry program because of the machine, instructors David Mason and Mark Beaudoin told the school board Wednesday night. […]
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‘Chemicals are everywhere’: Auburn moms join lobby for update to toxic substance law
PORTLAND — Bettyann Sheats said when her daughter was younger, they used to enjoy making crafts together. The Auburn woman said she later was shocked to learn that some of the metal charms they used to make beaded bracelets contained lead, and others may have contained cadmium, both toxic metals. Sheats was one of eight […]
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Maine economy rebounding slowly, but national events make predictions ‘a guessing game,’ experts say
AUGUSTA — Making predictions about the future of Maine’s economy and the flow of revenues into state coffers is a difficult task even under normal circumstances, but a committee of financial and economic experts found that the present situation is far from normal. The state’s Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission met Friday in Augusta to pin […]
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Mexico men given reduced charges in cocaine dealing case
PARIS — Two Mexico men indicted in April on drug trafficking charges stemming from undercover cocaine sales plead guilty to lesser charges in Oxford County Superior Court Tuesday. Daniel Allen, 55, of Swett Street and Darren Joudrey, 51, of Roxbury Road, were arrested with two other men in January after a yearlong investigation into cocaine trafficking in the Mexico area […]