Seven Franklin County fire departments responded early July 6, 2013 to assist Canadian firefighters after a train derailment, explosions, fire and tragedy.
Lac-Megantic
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Trips planned by Lisbon group, recreation department
LISBON — Sunshine Hill Neighbors Seniors and Lisbon Recreation are offering several trips this year. They include: Lac-Megantic Bellavance Sugar Shack in Quebec: March 31. The motor coach will leave the MTM Center at 8 a.m. and arrive in Lac-Megantic at about 11 a.m. Participants can enjoy maple taffy on the snow, a tour of […]
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Franco Center hosting maple sugar trip to Québec
LEWISTON — Mitch Thomas, executive director at The Dolard and Priscilla Gendron Franco Center, and Bert Dutil, popular bus trip leader, will lead a group on a maple sugar day-trip to Quebec on Saturday, April 1. The Cabane à Sucre in Lac-Mégantic is the destination. The first bus is full but there are seats available […]
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U.S., Canada unveil rules to boost oil train safety
WASHINGTON — Rail tank cars that are used to transport most crude oil and many other flammable liquids will have to be built to stronger standards to reduce the risk of catastrophic train crash and fire under a series of new rules unveiled Friday by U.S. and Canadian transportation officials. The regulations, which go into effect […]
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Lac-Megantic settlement fund growing
PORTLAND — A proposed settlement fund for victims of a fiery train derailment that claimed 47 lives in Canada is nearly halfway to a goal of $500 million in funding commitments ahead of its filing next month, the defunct railroad’s bankruptcy trustee said. More than a dozen corporations that face potential liability in the Lac […]
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New railroad refurbishes track, builds business after fiery derailment killed 47 in Canada
PORTLAND (AP) — The company that purchased assets of the railroad responsible for a fiery oil train derailment that killed 47 people in Canada says it is seeing growth as it rebuilds the business. Central Maine and Quebec Railway has nearly doubled its business from June, but it has yet to reach levels before the […]
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Farmington Library given tokens of friendship from Lac-Megantic Library
FARMINGTON — Eight University of Maine at Farmington students and three professors recently made a two-day trip to Farmington’s sister city, Lac-Megantic, Quebec. They brought a token of friendship back from Lac-Megantic’s rebuilt library and presented it to Librarian Marnie Stockford at Farmington Public Library on Wednesday. This pilot trip was part of UMF’s new […]
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MMA Railway bankruptcy trustee casts wide net for corporations to pay Lac-Megantic victims
BANGOR, Maine — The bankruptcy trustee in the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway case is casting a wide net in an effort to reach into deep corporate pockets to create a fund to compensate victims and help pay the enormous costs related to the Lac-Megantic rail disaster in Quebec last year. In September, Robert Keach […]
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Rangeley literacy project goes around the world
RANGELEY — Regional School Unit 78 directors this week were told that Rangeley Lakes Regional School students have sent their journals to friends and strangers around the world, who will add entries and return them. It’s a project that middle school literacy teacher Robin George works on with sixth-graders. She compares the project to sending […]
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Head of new Maine railroad company says he’s building transportation system to last
BANGOR — The man behind the controls of the company that took over for the defunct Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway says he plans to turn a profit by 2015. That’s not an easy feat, according to John Giles, CEO of Central Maine and Quebec Railway, considering Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway was profitable in […]