A motorist traveling North on the Sawyer Road in Greene finds the road closed due to storm damage on Tuesday morning. Roads throughout the area including the North end of Upper Street in Turner and the North end of Hotel Road in Auburn still closed due to damage sustained during Sunday night’s storm. (Daryn Slover/Sun […]
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CMP expects to restore power to most customers by Saturday night
Sara Burns: We expect to complete restoration to the vast majority of customers by Saturday night. — Central Maine Power (@cmpco) October 31, 2017 Work to restore electricity to more than 400,000 Maine homes and businesses continues a day after a powerful storm knocked out power to a record number of people across the state. […]
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Posted inBethel, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley, sj-web
‘It’s a mess’
Officials said Monday it will be several days before some roads are reopened and power is restored across the state because of a powerful storm that blew into Maine late Sunday night with winds topping 70 mph. Central Maine Power said the number of outages — more than 400,000 at midday Monday — was more […]
Posted inRiver Valley, sj-web
Port-a-potty rescue
Arnold Martin and members of the Rumford Parks Department rescue a port-a-potty before it floats away Monday afternoon on Hosmer Field in Rumford. The floodwaters were from the nearby Swift River. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times)
Posted inFranklin
Flags held high
Veteran Don Simoneau of Fayette sits Monday in the wind and rain in front of Richardson Cemetery on Main Street in Livermore Falls. It was the second-to-last Monday of the Flags Held High program, which runs from the first Monday in May through the Monday before Veterans Day. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal)