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Berwick man charged with drug trafficking after MDEA seizes 1,100 oxycodone pills

BERWICK — The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency announced Friday that agents last Saturday arrested a Berwick man they say was “a significant distributor” of oxycodone in southern Maine and New Hampshire. Donald Packer, 38, was charged with aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs after Berwick police allegedly stopped him as he returned from Connecticut and seized […]

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LePage, Collins court defense contractors at jet fighter cockpit simulation

NORTH BERWICK — Gov. Paul LePage used a celebration of employees at jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney’s North Berwick facility Friday morning to remind the airplane manufacturers and corporate executives in attendance that there are more workers available elsewhere in Maine as well. Pratt & Whitney is producing in the York County town the […]

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LePage jokes about blowing up newspaper building

NORTH BERWICK — Gov. Paul LePage, who has long derided the state’s journalists, targeted the Portland Press Herald Friday morning when he climbed into the cockpit of a fighter jet simulator in North Berwick. As he strapped into the F-35 Lightning II demonstrator machine, set up for attendees of Pratt & Whitney’s annual employee appreciation […]