OLD TOWN (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says a company has signed papers to buy a paper mill in Old Town that shut down earlier this year. WLBZ-TV reports that LePage declined Monday to say which company is buying the Old Town Fuel and Fiber mill. He says his administration plans to release more […]
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NTSB recovers part of engine from Rockefeller’s plane
PURCHASE, N.Y. — Federal investigators have recovered a piece of the engine of a small plane that crashed and killed a member of the Rockefeller family in suburban New York. Richard Rockefeller, the great-grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller, was killed in the crash on Friday. The Piper Meridian single-engine turboprop plane went […]
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Falmouth man, Rockefeller great-grandson dies in New York plane crash
PURCHASE, N.Y. — A family spokesman says the pilot of a small plane who died in a crash outside New York City was Richard Rockfeller, great grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. Westchester County Airport operations manager John Starace says the aircraft took off just after 8 a.m. Friday and went down after hitting […]
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Canton fire chief makes case for brush truck
CANTON — Board of Selectmen Vice Chairman Lisa Cummings conducted the Thursday night board meeting so Chairman Shane Gallant, acting as fire chief, could explain to the board why the department needed a brush truck. The present brush truck is a 1990 model and has multiple problems, including its frame being broken in two places. […]
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Red Sox owner enters $70M deal for Boston Globe
BOSTON (AP) — Businessman John Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, has entered into an agreement to buy The Boston Globe for $70 million, a massive drop from its record $1.1 billion price two decades ago. The impending purchase from The New York Times Co. marks Henry’s “first foray into the financially […]