RUMFORD — The River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition celebrated Earth Day on Wednesday by speaking about recycling during their monthly networking meeting at the Region 9 School of Applied Technology. Executive Director Patricia Duguay spoke to a small group of coalition members about ways they could improve recycling in their workplaces and homes. Duguay started […]
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Trash and recyclables collected for Earth Day in Farmington
FARMINGTON — Earth Day in Farmington was a community effort as volunteers from business, the University of Maine at Farmington and the town stepped forward to spruce up the downtown area. “We live and work in this community and it is our responsibility to help keep it clean,” Cortany Tinker said as she and co-worker […]
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Eben Miller: Earth Day’s call to unify a polarized nation
Forty five years ago, Edmund S. Muskie argued that the first Earth Day — and the environmental movement more broadly — offered a unique and vital opportunity to unify a polarized nation. In 1970 the Maine senator embodied the emerging spirit of environmentalism, especially as it pertained to public policy. As chairman of an influential […]
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Michaud calls for Maine to cut heating oil usage
YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud on Tuesday called for Maine to cut its dependency on heating oil in half by implementing mandatory energy efficiency ratings for new homes and boosting the state’s use of renewable energy such as, wind and solar. Michaud, a Democratic candidate for governor, said his plan to help […]
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Family cleans up for Earth Day in Auburn
AUBURN — Exercise, family time and cleaning up — what could be better? Scott and Tammy Rodrigue have made a family tradition of Earth Day sprucing-up. Tammy Rodrigue said she, Scott and their three sons, Kegan, 12, Reece, 14, and Brodyn, 5, as well as the boys’ hockey friends began around the Rodrigues’ Hotel Road […]