Children aboard a bus heading from Kittery on a summer field trip were injured when the driver suffered a medical emergency and the bus crashed off Interstate 95 southbound in New Hampshire Friday morning. One of the 11 children onboard the bus was transferred to a hospital in Boston with serious injuries, said Lt. John […]
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Lisbon Recrecation needs new bus for seniors
LISBON — The Lisbon Recreation Department needs a new bus for its seniors program. After failing an inspection in June — in need of about $6,000 worth of repairs, including frame work — the 15-passenger bus has been taken off the road. In the interim, the department will rent buses. “It’s really not feasible to […]
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Police investigate broken bus windows in Livermore Falls
LIVERMORE FALLS — Police are investigating vandalism to a Regional School Unit 73 bus that was reported Monday morning. Someone threw rocks and broke four side windows over the weekend on a school bus parked at the Bus Garage on Cedar Street, according to Police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. The damage was estimated at about […]
Posted inMaine, News
Concord Coach Lines admits mistake after employee tells passengers they have to be citizens to ride
Concord Coach Lines, a popular bus service that serves much of northern New England, has apologized after video surfaced of an employee falsely telling passengers in Bangor that they needed to be U.S. citizens to ride. The unidentified employee was captured in video taken by passenger Alec Larson on May 28, according to News Center […]
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Bus company apologizes after employee tells passengers they have to be U.S. citizens to ride
Concord Coach Lines, a popular bus service that serves much of northern New England, has apologized after video surfaced of an employee falsely telling passengers in Bangor that they needed to be U.S. citizens to ride. The unidentified employee was captured in video taken by passenger Alec Larson on May 28, according to News Center […]
Posted inFranklin, sj-web
RSU 9 bus accidentally backs over car in New Sharon
NEW SHARON — A Regional School Unit 9 bus backed over the front of a car Friday morning on Industry Road, according to a news release from Frankin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. No one was injured, including five students on the bus, he said. Deputy Andrew Morgan responded to the accident at 7:53 a.m. Bus driver Bonita […]
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SAD 44 parents, administrators respond to bus incident
BETHEL — A School Administrative District 44 bus with students aboard was forced off Bird Hill Road by a logging truck this week, Superintendent David Murphy said. There were no injuries. The bus, driven by Lynn Billings, went into a ditch and could not be driven back onto the road. Students were led to another […]
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Rock thrown at RSU 73 bus injures girl; student accused
Update: Jay teen charged in rock throwing incident JAY — A 16-year-old boy is accused of throwing a rock through the window of a Regional School Unit 73 bus Tuesday afternoon, hitting a 9-year-old girl, Police Chief Richard Caton IV said Wednesday. The Spruce Mountain High School student threw the rock through a driver’s side window […]
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Auburn reviews protocol after two young students exit at wrong stop
AUBURN — The day after a pre-kindergarten student and first-grader got off at the wrong stop without the bus driver noticing, school officials met with the contract bus service to figure out how that happened and how to keep it from happening again. Superintendent Katy Grondin said Friday that the substitute bus driver’s list of […]
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Woman rescued after car strikes bus, catches fire in Norway
NORWAY — Two passersby rescued a woman from her burning car Thursday morning after it struck the back of a school bus and burst into flames near Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School. The woman, identified by Norway police as Natalie Taylor, 78, of Mechanic Falls, was examined by ambulance personnel at the scene and taken […]