From the outside, it looks like a hangar — a half-moon with roofing from one rounded side to the next and an end cap filled with large windows and a garage door. On the inside, Thom Labrie sees the future. The Greene businessman and inventor has been working in secret on this building’s design for several years, […]
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Augusta home for poor women to close after 150 years
AUGUSTA (AP) — A church-run home for poor women in Augusta is closing after nearly 150 years. Leaders of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, which operates the St. Mark’s Home on Winthrop Street, voted last week to close the facility, which opened in 1870 but now has just four residents. Heidi Shott, a spokeswoman for the […]
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West Paris strikes deal for residents to buy back town-owned homes
WEST PARIS — Selectmen have authorized Town Manager John White to negotiate a payment plan with two former property owners to buy back their homes. The agreement requires the residents to pay back the entirety of their taxes, plus interest and fees owed to the town over a 17-month period. At the selectmen’s meeting Thursday […]
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Civil War hero’s Brunswick home damaged by water
“Water was pouring from the ceiling,” Benet Pols said of the parlor of the Potter Street building, the former residence of the Civil War hero and 19th-century Maine governor. “It was a terrible scene. There was water gushing through the ceiling.” Pols said the painted ceiling has since collapsed. Pols said he responded to a […]
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Faulty furnace likely cause of fire that destroyed Bangor mobile home
BANGOR — A faulty furnace was likely the main culprit in a fire that gutted a trailer at a local mobile home park on Thursday afternoon. Bangor Assistant Fire Chief Tom Higgins said crews were dispatched to Lot 13 at Pray’s Mobile Home Park off Finson Road shortly after noon. Higgins said fire was spewing […]
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Maine mortgage defaults rose in 2013
Mainers continue to struggle to keep their homes. The Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection expects to end 2013 having seen more pre-foreclosure notices this year than in any of the past four years. Bureau Superintendent Will Lund said the spike might not be a sign of more people newly falling behind on mortgage payments. It […]
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First solar-powered Habitat for Humanity home in New England set to open in Oakland
OAKLAND (AP) — The first solar-powered Habitat for Humanity home in New England is being opened to the public. The beige ranch house in Oakland will open on Sunday after 15 months of construction. Mike Grant, a member of the Waterville area organization’s chapter’s board of directors, tells the Morning Sentinel that the opening ceremony […]
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Local project: The MacKenzies make it their own with a little help from their dads
Llia and Melissa Mackenzie purchased their property in Standish in 2011, just prior to their wedding. Since that time, they have been renovating the Cape-style home to make it their own. One of the first things they did was rip out all of the carpeting. With the exception of the bathrooms, they wanted hardwood flooring […]
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Rumford woman’s house renovated thanks to low-income grant
RUMFORD — Mary Ann Schlear praised the Lord repeatedly on Friday while two Lewiston-Auburn area housing rehabilitation crews rebuilt sections of her house. The 50-year-old house at 1236 Route 2 has new windows, a new bathtub surround, new light fixtures, a whole new roof, leveled floors in the bathroom, kitchen and dining room, a new […]