BANGOR — Officials with Maine’s electric utilities say it likely will be two weeks to a month before they get an accurate estimate of the costs associated with the year-end ice storm. The storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of Mainers, and Emera Maine, formerly Bangor Hydro Electric Co., and Central Maine Power, […]
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CMP has 1,000 workers out fixing lines; wait could take until Thursday for some customers
CMP spokesman John Carroll said 85 CMP crews and 92 out-of-state crews from Connecticut, New York, Vermont and Canada were already working Tuesday morning. Another 80 to 85 out-of-state teams were anticipated to join them. Each crew is made up of two people working 17 hours on, seven hours off. In addition, Carroll said 200 […]
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Car slid off Route 120 into water in Mexico
MEXICO — A local woman escaped injury late Wednesday morning when the car she was driving slid off Route 120, broke a utility pole and landed in a pool of water next to the Swift River. Mexico police Officer Derek MacDonald said Crystal Martin, 55, was driving southwest in a 2007 Saturn sports car when […]
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Fallen tree on River Road knocks out power for several hours
MEXICO — Residents on a stretch of River Road lost power for more than four hours Wednesday afternoon after a tree fell on power lines, police Lt. Roy Hodsdon said. Hodsdon said he and another officer were patrolling River Road and saw the tree just past Labonville’s store. “The tree was still bouncing on the […]
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Boothbay plan seeking to trim energy use, cost
As we flip on the air conditioners or leave on that summer road trip, consider our power predicament. Coal once produced a larger part of Maine’s power, but the big plants were gradually phased out as dirty and inefficient. Nuclear power met about 20 percent of Maine’s electric demand between 1972 and 1996. That’s when […]