BLUE HILL — In a glass box in a private school in Maine sits a 40-year-old chemistry experiment still going strong: A decades-old Twinkie. ABC News reports the experiment started in 1976 when Roger Bennatti was teaching a lesson to his high school chemistry class on food additives and shelf life. After a student wondered […]
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Ragna E. Gauger
1939 – 2016 FORT MYERS, Fla. — Ragna E. Gauger went to be with the Lord on Monday, April 11. Ragna passed away peacefully at her home in Fort Myers, Fla., from complications of Parkinson’s disease. The only child of the late Proctor and Frances Byard, Ragna was born on Nov. 18, 1939, in Blue […]
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Blue Hill’s Farmer Brown loses three-year fight against state dairy regulation
AUGUSTA — Dan Brown, the Blue Hill dairy farmer whose legal fight against state regulators spawned protests and a slew of anti-regulation ordinances in towns across Maine, has lost his battle in the state’s highest court. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday issued a ruling upholding a lower court’s decision that Brown had broken […]
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Maine supreme court rejects appeal in raw milk case
PORTLAND (AP) — The state supreme court has rejected a Blue Hill farmer’s challenge of regulations requiring him to spend thousands of dollars to be licensed to sell raw milk at his farm stand. Farmer Dan Brown wanted to continue selling milk the way he had for years based on his understanding from state officials […]
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Farmer Brown goes to court: Justices hear oral arguments in unlicensed raw milk case
PORTLAND — The 3-year-old question of whether a Blue Hill farmer should be allowed to sell raw milk without a license now lies with the state’s highest court, which heard oral arguments in the case on Tuesday. Maine Supreme Judicial Court justices asked tough questions of both sides, making it hard to predict which way […]
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Firefighters battle garage blaze in Blue Hill
BLUE HILL — Nearly 50 volunteer firefighters from four communities quelled a dramatic fire Sunday afternoon that consumed a three-story garage on Pleasant Street and sent flames and clouds of black smoke shooting high into the sky. No firefighters were injured while fighting the fire, which threatened nearby structures including the owner’s home and the […]
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Two Massachusetts residents unhurt in small plane crash in Blue Hill
BLUE HILL (AP) — Two Massachusetts residents who planned to spend the day at Maine’s Acadia National Park instead got a rude introduction to a vacant field when their small plane went down. Authorities said both pilot and passenger walked away without a scratch when the single-engine plane made an emergency landing in Blue Hill […]
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Small plane crashes in Maine, nobody hurt
BLUE HILL (AP) — Officials say a small plane has crashed in Blue Hill, Maine, but nobody was injured. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Department says a single-engine plane crash-landed in a field off Falls Bridge Road at about 10:50 a.m. Sunday. An official says nobody was hurt and that nobody was transferred to a hospital. […]