BANGOR — For the second time in a decade, animal rights groups are seeking a public vote to ban three bear hunting practices. The groups have also asked providers of food products used as bear bait to stop supplying leftover food waste to bear hunters. The Coastal Humane Society, Animal Refuge League and Animal Wildlife […]
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In the wake of bankruptcy, keeping Maine’s rail network intact ‘strategically critical’
Speculation is growing over what the long-term economic impacts will be to the bankruptcy of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway. Experts interviewed by the Bangor Daily News, however, say businesses served by the railroad shouldn’t experience any immediate impacts as a result of the company’s bankruptcy. The railway filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, […]
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Saco man, toddler on bicycle in critical condition after struck by pickup in Biddeford
BIDDEFORD — A Saco man and a toddler were listed in critical condition at Maine Medical Center in Portland after being struck by a vehicle Friday evening. Jamerico Elliott, 51, was traveling on a sidewalk along Elm Street on his bicycle with a 15-month-old boy in a bicycle seat just before 6 p.m. Friday when […]
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Maine’s cheese making industry on the rise
ROCKPORT — Thirty years ago, Mainers shopping for cheese at their local grocery stores would have found few choices — and of those, plastic-wrapped processed cheese slices had a large market share. Some speciality stores might have carried imported cheeses from Europe, but there were very few examples of locally made options for sale, Taylor […]
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The Portland Co. complex sold in deal that could transform the city’s waterfront
PORTLAND — A series of real estate transactions that have the potential to transform Portland’s waterfront closed this week. The Portland Co.’s complex at 58 Fore St. was sold on Monday to a group of developers, according to Tony McDonald, the broker with CBRE/The Boulos Co. who closed the deal. McDonald represented the property’s former […]
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LePage’s chief legal counsel resigning for Navy Reserve tour in Afghanistan
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is expected to appoint a new chief legal counsel next week in the wake of the resignation Thursday of Michael Cianchette, who is shipping out to Afghanistan soon for a tour with the U.S. Navy Reserve. Cianchette, who joined the LePage administration as deputy legal counsel days after the 2010 […]
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New fruit fly could put Maine’s blueberry crop at risk
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s wild-blueberry growers are monitoring their fields for a harmful new fruit fly that arrived in the United States five years ago and poses a threat to the state’s crop. With the blueberry harvest kicking into gear later this week, growers have been watching out for the tiny spotted wing drosophila, a […]
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Woman believed dead for more than 30 years reunited with her family
GLENBURN — Donna Keniston was 17 when her mother left Maine in 1981. “I thought she was dead,” Keniston, 50, of Plymouth said Sunday. So did Betty Lukich’s four sisters: Virginia Allen, 72, of Winter Harbor; Dorothy Ham, 77, of Brewer; Mary Inman, 75, and Laura Riegelman, 78, both of Glenburn. The family was reunited […]
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National Journal: New poll by Democratic ally shows Michaud surging ahead of LePage
AUGUSTA — A poll commissioned by the National Education Association and conducted by a Democratic polling firm shows that Democrat Mike Michaud has moved ahead of incumbent Republican Gov. Paul LePage and independent Eliot Cutler in a three-way race for governor,National Journal political blog writer Kevin Brennanreported Friday morning. Spokesmen for LePage and Cutler criticized […]
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Alfond attacks new Portland charter school for aligning with ‘extreme organization’
PORTLAND — Senate President Justin Alfond, D-Portland, attacked a new charter school in his district Friday for aligning itself with what he called one of the most extreme political organizations in Maine. Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, a new charter school set to open this fall in Portland, will host a policy luncheon next […]