AUBURN — Edward J. Dobransky, 91, of Lisbon Falls passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 11, at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice, with his family by his side. Eddie was born in Topsham on May 8, 1926, a son of Andrew P. Dobransky and Suzana A. Demchak, both naturalized citizens of the […]
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Master logger speaking on woodlot harvest
WILTON — The public is invited to join master logger Ron Ridley at one of his active wood harvests on Guy Chandler Road from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, June 21. Under the master logger program, loggers have to adhere to nine standards for every harvest to achieve the goals of the harvest. Attendees […]
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Report: Maine has no capacity to regulate hayrides
UPDATE: Hayride victim Cassidy Charette’s family disappointed by state report AUGUSTA — A new report from the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office says there’s little the state can do to improve safety when it comes to farm hayrides in the Pine Tree State. The report from a working group set up in 2015 to review regulations for […]
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Overhaul of Maine tree growth tax credit chopped down by committee
AUGUSTA — Legislation designed to dramatically overhaul Maine’s tree growth property tax credit program fell largely on deaf ears Monday as lawmakers on the Legislature’s Taxation Committee unanimously rejected the proposal offered by Republican Gov. Paul LePage. Among other provisions in the bill, LD 1632, is one that would have excluded from the program, which […]
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Legislature overrides Paul LePage’s veto of bill to study hayride regulations
Also on this page: Legislators busy overturning vetoes AUGUSTA — The Legislature on Monday overturned a veto of a bill to create a task force to examine the safety and possible regulations for farm amusement rides, such as the haunted hayride that claimed the life of an Oakland teen last fall. The House voted 146-0 to overturn by […]
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Spruce Mountain student garden helps food pantry
JAY — Trevor Doiron, a Spruce Mountain High School sophomore, and a few other students and community members have just wrapped up their third year of growing a community garden. The garden, now with six beds, supplied the Tri-Town Ministerial Association Food Cupboard with 87 pounds of fresh vegetables. This year’s project included construction of […]
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Auburn student engineers target Iowa pest for high-tech contest
AUBURN — Iowa’s cornfields may be quite a distance to the west, but they are weighing heavily this summer on the minds of eight former and current Edward Little High School student engineers. “We’re using an actual Iowa farm as our example, but we are not working there,” said EL Senior Christopher Lenardis. “We’ve never […]
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Maine elver fishery to face harvest cuts in 2014
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s lucrative glass eel fishery will be allowed to remain open next year as long as state officials devise a plan to cut its 2014 catch by at least 25 percent, regulators agreed Wednesday. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s eel management board voted to postpone passing new regulations that would go […]