AUGUSTA — Traffic on Interstate 95 in Auburn will be disrupted from 10 p.m. Sunday, June 1, to 5 a.m. Monday, June 2, while contractors for Central Maine Power perform maintenance on transmission lines over the highway. The work will require disruption of traffic in both directions for 15 minutes between those hours. CMP has […]
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Maine officials to announce speed limit decision
AUGUSTA — Maine officials will soon announce their decision about whether to raise the speed limits on interstate highways. Maine Department of Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt said Thursday that he will make the announcement at the department’s headquarters on Capitol Street in Augusta on Tuesday, May 27, at 11 a.m. The state Legislature in 2013 […]
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Plans for I-95 interchange in Waterville advance
WATERVILLE (AP) — Construction of a $6 million interchange on Interstate 95 in Waterville could start as early as next year. The interchange is proposed by Trafton Realty LLC, which owns 921 acres off Trafton Road and houses Mid-State Machine and other businesses in its building. According to the project’s purpose and needs statement, the […]
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Passenger jet slips off taxiway in Bangor as freezing rain pelts Maine; hundreds of accidents reported
A passenger jet slid off a taxiway at Bangor International Airport and sections of Interstate 95 were closed by extremely icy conditions Saturday that had emergency responders scrambling statewide. Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash on Cape Road in Hollis, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said. The accident happened shortly […]
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Hampden man killed in single-car crash on I-95
HERMON — A 47-year-old Hampden man was killed Monday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 95. Thomas Ellingwood was the only person in the vehicle, a silver 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser, Trooper Michael Johnston of the Maine State Police said in a news release issued Monday evening. According to Johnston, the accident happened about […]
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Trooper injured in Smyrna accident
SMYRNA — Black ice and slick roads caused a pair of accidents here Monday night that injured one driver and a Maine State Trooper. The events began when Jayde McNinch, 19, of Littleton encountered a patch of black ice while headed north on Interstate 95 and skidded off the highway into the median, according to […]
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Kittery woman killed while waving for help on Maine turnpike
FALMOUTH — Police say a Kittery woman was killed Sunday while trying to flag down other vehicles to help with a flat tire on the Maine Turnpike near the Falmouth-Portland line. In a written statement, Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said 24-year-old Aeriel Rodriguez had pulled into the […]
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FAA: Plane that made I-95 landing ran out of fuel
AUGUSTA — Federal investigators said a Maine Warden Service plane that made an emergency landing on Interstate 95 in Litchfield in April simply ran out of fuel. No one was injured when the single propeller Cessna landed on the highway on April 26, prompting one driver to pull over to make way for the aircraft. […]