LEWISTON — The School Committee on Monday night approved a five-year contract with Hudson Bus, which does business as Student Transportation of America. For years, the School Department has contracted student busing with a private company which provides buses and employs school bus drivers. Reasons for continuing business with Hudson, committee members were told, included […]
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LePage to announce new L/A-Portland bus service
AUGUSTA — Just two days after the Auburn City Council voted 6-0 to contribute $50,000 to a $500,000 passenger rail development plan for Lewiston-Auburn, Republican Gov. Paul LePage and Auburn Mayor Jonathan LaBonte are set to announce a new bus service for the Twin Cities. LePage and LaBonte, who is also director of LePage’s office […]
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Livermore Falls teenager accused of sexually touching girl
JAY — An 18-year-old Livermore Falls man is accused of sexually touching a girl under 16 years old on a school bus, Jay police Chief Richard Caton IV said Thursday. Alan Burnell was arrested on a felony charge of unlawful sexual contact on Wednesday, he said. The victim reported the incident to a counselor earlier […]
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Bus refurbishing group in Limestone gets $19 million contract
AUGUSTA (AP) — A business that got its start overhauling military vehicles has been awarded a $19 million contract to refurbish 32 Massachusetts transit buses. Maine Gov. Paul LePage said that the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority board of directors approved the contract with the Maine Military Authority in Limestone. He says the contract could increase […]
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Farmington boy charged with terrorizing returning to school
FARMINGTON — An 8-year-old boy has admitted to putting a knife to a 6-year-old child’s throat and threatening him on a bus on May 27, the older boy’s father, Galen Brackley, said. RSU 9 school resource officer Bridgette Gilbert investigated the incident and charged Brackley’s son with a misdemeanor charge of terrorizing. The boy, a […]
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Police investigate bus crash
BRIDGTON – Police said Wednesday night they were trying to determine what caused a school bus to slide off Route 117 and into a patch of trees. The children on board were not injured, officials said. It was not immediately clear where the bus was headed when it slipped off the highway near Blake Lane. […]
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Councilors feel fancier Spring Street bus station worthy
AUBURN — The city could spend a bit more to get a downtown bus station that looks good, according to the new drawings of the proposed building. The city has released a drawing of the planned Spring Street bus station, with a slanted roof, a central tower and plenty of glass. Designs for the station […]
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Arbitrator rules Auburn’s outsourcing bus drivers did not violate labor contract
AUBURN — A labor mediator has ruled that the School Department did not violate collective bargaining when it privatized its bus drivers to Northeast Charter of Lewiston. The School Committee voted last August to eliminate its transportation department positions, including 23 bus drivers, a mechanic and three bus aides. The union representing the bus drivers, […]
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Empty Bowdoin College hockey bus slides into N.Y. restaurant
OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — Bowdoin College officials say no one was aboard the men’s hockey team bus when it slid down a hill during Wednesday’s blizzard and hit a central New York restaurant. Nick Canale told The Post-Standard of Syracuse (http://bit.ly/1fyEMSW ) that the bus driver was having lunch inside his Italian restaurant in Oswego […]
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Man smashes window to help Auburn crash victim
AUBURN — A Bangor-bound Greyhound bus collided with a Ford Focus about 7:15 p.m. Sunday on northbound Washington Street, sending the driver of the passenger vehicle to the hospital. “We heard a big smash out here, so I came out (from a nearby house) to take a look,” said Josh Harmon, 28, of Auburn. “I […]