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Navy Blue Angel slides off runway

BRUNSWICK (AP) — A jet from the Navy’s elite Blue Angels flight demonstration team skidded off a runway and got stuck in mud Thursday morning. The F/A-18 Hornet was flying to the former Brunswick Naval Air Station to promote and plan for the 2015 Great State of Maine Air Show when it slid on a […]

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36 female veterans recognized in Rumford for service to country

RUMFORD — Thirty-six female veterans of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps were honored Saturday at the second annual Female Veterans Day Luncheon at American Legion Post 24 in Rumford. They were recognized for their service and pampered on a first-come, first-served basis by River Valley professionals who donated manicures, hair styling and […]

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Bath Iron Works is awarded $57 million in Navy contracts for maintenance, engineering

BATH (AP) — Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree says Bath Iron Works has won two Navy contracts totaling more than $57 million for fleet maintenance and engineering projects. Pingree said Tuesday that half the money is for design and engineering work on the Littoral Combat Ship. The ship is designed for coastal operations such as transporting […]

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BIW receives $100 million toward fifth DDG-51 destroyer

BATH – The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on Sunday approved $100 million in funding to allow Bath Iron Works to begin building a fifth DDG-51 destroyer. The funding was included in the National Defense Authorization Act, which President Barack Obama signed in December, but the appropriations committee still had to appropriate the funding. In […]

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Organizers say Blue Angels will return to Maine in 2015

BRUNSWICK — The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels aerobatics team will return to perform in Maine on Labor Day Weekend, 2015, according to organizers of the Great State of Maine Air Show in Brunswick. The air show and affiliated Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, the organization leading the conversion of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station for […]