Only 5 trails on the entire East Coast have been given the federal designation to date.
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State prepares to install string of high-speed chargers for electric vehicles
Seven stations scattered from Kennebunk to Jackman are expected to come online next year, giving vehicles a fast charge that will take them 240 miles.
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H.S. Football: Weekly Top 10
1. Bonny Eagle (10-0) (1) The Scots thwarted away an upset bid by Scarborough that Thornton Academy couldn’t do the week before. The only unbeaten team in Class A now gets to try and finish a perfect season by beating Portland on its home turf. 2. Portland (9-1) (2) The Bulldogs made it back to […]
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H.S. Football: Pigskin prognostications
Brunswick 35, Kennebunk 21 Wells 28, Mount Desert Island 12 Lisbon 26, Maine Central Institute 22
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H.S. Football: Weekend blitz
Class A state championship North No. 1 PORTLAND (9-1) vs. South No. 1 BONNY EAGLE (10-0) Saturday, 11:06 a.m. This title game will be played at the home of the Bulldogs, and a place that Bonny Eagle coach Kevin Cooper has made feel like home, winning five titles in five tries. Both time like to […]
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Monday Morning Quarterback: Lisbon’s miraculous win was filled with action and stories
Saturday’s Class D South regional championship game between Lisbon and Winthrop/Monmouth had so many twists and turns, and storylines galore, that one game story couldn’t possibly do the instant classic justice. Here are some leftover stories to tell from an “all-timer,” as one person described the game. Anatomy of a game-winning play Through 47 minutes […]
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H.S. Football: Regional final weekend blitz
No. 3 SCARBOROUGH (8-2) at No. 1 BONNY EAGLE (9-0) Friday, 7 p.m. A Bonny Eagle-Thornton Academy rematch was all set up … until the Red Storm went and upset the Trojans. What we get now is a rematch of a week two game that the Scots won, 21-7. But that was on the road. […]
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H.S. Football: Pigskin prognostications
Maine Central Institute 35, Dexter 12 Bonny Eagle 41, Scarborough 21 Portland 28, Windham 16 Biddeford 20, Kennebunk 14 Brunswick 48, Brewer 14 Cape Elizabeth 28, Wells 20 Winslow 36, Mount Desert Island 26
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George Mitchell’s son accidently sets Mount Desert Island wildfire
SEAL HARBOR — Fire officials say the 17-year-old son of former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell accidentally started a wildfire that burned about an acre in Maine. The Portland Press Herald reports the fire charred woods and fields on his father’s property in Seal Harbor on Mount Desert Island on Sunday. Mount Desert Fire Chief Mike […]
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Rockefeller to donate 1,000 acres to MDI preserve
PORTLAND — The oldest member of the Rockefeller family is giving a gift as part of his 100th birthday celebration: 1,000 acres of land including streams, trails and carriage roads abutting Acadia National Park. David Rockefeller, the retired CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank and grandson of oil tycoon John Rockefeller Sr., is transferring family property at […]