Lawmakers hope to ease some environmental regulations so people can build more durable infrastructure and recover more quickly after January’s storms.
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A wider river runs through it
After Friday’s heavy rain and temperatures in the 50s, the Little Androscoggin River swells Saturday in South Paris, threatening to flood residences near the river’s confluence with Stony Brook — near the junction of routes 117 and 119. (Sun Journal photo by Abigail Austin)
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Stephen King to help Bangor bookstore owner who lost collection from broken pipe
BANGOR (AP) — Stephen King says he wants to help a Maine bookstore owner who lost thousands of dollars’ worth of rare books, including original King manuscripts, after flood caused by a broken pipe. King tells the Bangor Daily News he was “horrified” to hear about Gerald Winters’ bookstore in Bangor. Winters says about 2,000 […]
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YMCA postpones Hall of Fame event
AUBURN — The YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston has postponed its annual Hall of Fame celebration, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 6. The new date has not yet been set, but it will be in the new year. The decision to postpone is based on the impact of flooding over the weekend of Nov. 18-19,when […]
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Major flooding closes YMCA of Lewiston-Auburn
AUBURN — An overnight flood Saturday has caused the YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston to shut down for at least the next week, Director Steve Wallace said Sunday. Twelve feet of water filled the Y’s basement after a leak that could have started any time after the building on Turner Street closed at 5 p.m. Saturday. “This […]
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Route 2 floods
The flooding Androscoggin River closed Route 2 west (and, for a time, east) Monday. Here, a car sits in the water just west of the overpass near town. In late morning an emergency notice was put out that the dam on the Andro in Shelburne, N.H. had the potential for breaching, according to Bethel Fire […]
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Farmington volunteer helping Louisiana flood victims
FARMINGTON — People in Ascension Parish in Louisiana, one of many parishes hit hard by flooding in mid-August, are looking forward to rebuilding, Todd Tisdale, a volunteer with the American Red Cross of Maine, said Monday. He is among several Maine residents with the American Red Cross who were sent to Louisiana to help flood […]
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Heavy rains in forecast raise flooding concerns
AUGUSTA — With some Maine residents already stuck in their homes Monday because of seasonal flooding from river ice jams, a storm in the overnight forecast threatened to make things worse, with as much as 3 inches of rain in some places. Central Maine was expected to get hit the hardest, with the heaviest rains […]
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Maine rivers to rise after snow melts
AUGUSTA — Federal weather forecasters say warming temperatures in the coming week will melt enough snow for river levels to begin rising across Maine. Officials told the River Flow Advisory Commission on Thursday that there’s no forecast in the coming week for a big rainfall to drive a swift snowmelt that could cause flooding. But […]
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Paris woman recounts perilous ride in floodwaters 79 years ago
PARIS — Five-year-old Kathleen Scribner had no idea when she got into the family car the morning of March 24, 1936, that she was in for the ride of her life. The South Paris resident, who will be 84 in June, recalled the events of that fateful day from her Paris Hill Road home recently. Her […]