RUMFORD — A Maine Department of Transportation truck crashed into a utility pole on Route 2 Tuesday morning. At approximately 4 a.m., the 1-ton pickup truck was sanding near the intersection of Route 2 and Route 232 in Rumford Point went it slid off the road and broke a utility pole, Norm Haggan, regional manager […]
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Maine tribe contributing to state highway projects
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The chief of the Passamaquoddy Tribe has given the state two checks totaling $1.9 million for two highway projects. Chief Joseph Socobasin presented checks this week to Gov. Paul LePage and Maine Department of Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt. Indian Township has two projects it is participating in with the transportation department. […]
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Monument area to be tweaked but look the same
JAY — State transportation representatives, local residents and officials reached an agreement Tuesday on the town’s war monument in Chisholm Square. The Maine Department of Transportation is in the process of having 1.1 miles of Route 4 in Jay and Livermore Falls reconstructed. The project includes widening the road and putting in new sidewalks. In […]
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Bridges reopen, Maine to receive $1M emergency relief in wake of Irene
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Authorities reopened washed-out Route 27 on Tuesday evening, just hours after the Federal Highway Administration announced it was sending $1 million to help repair roads and bridges damaged by Tropical Storm Irene. Reed and Reed Inc. of Woolwich worked extended shifts through the holiday weekend to build two temporary bridges on Route […]
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Contractors being interviewed to build bridges
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Maine Department of Transportation officials are working on design plans for temporary bridges to allow traffic to flow on Route 27, spokesman Mark Latti said Tuesday. In addition, two permanent bridges would be constructed where they were washed out Sunday, he said. “We hope to re-establish through traffic on Route 27 quickly, […]
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Maine DOT, prison chiefs named
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage says a veteran Maine transportation official is his choice to head that department, and his nominee for corrections commissioner has experience in four other states’ prison systems. The governor on Monday announced that David Bernhardt, an engineer who has 26 years background in Maine’s Transportation Department, will be […]
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$10.5 M grant OK’d for rails
AUGUSTA (AP) — The federal Department of Transportation is awarding a $10.5 million grant to repair and improve a northern Maine rail line that’s set for abandonment. Members of the state’s congressional delegation say the money will be used to repair and improve the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway line in Aroostook and northern Penobscot […]
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Twin Bridges work set to begin
RILEY TOWNSHIP — Improvements to a pair of bridges over the Sunday River should begin in the next few weeks, a state engineer told the Oxford County commissioners Tuesday. County officials agreed last year to work with the Maine Department of Transportation to improve the Twin Bridges, also known as the Bull Branch Bridges, on […]