LEWISTON — There is a need for blue spruce and fir boughs for insulating the shelters throughout Tommy’s Feral Feline Friends colonies. The group is also looking for anyone interested in volunteering to help make shelters and rebuild many of the structures that have been ruined by weather conditions. Anyone interested in helping can email […]
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An ark in a bus: Driver rescues 64 dogs and cats from Hurricane Florence
There is nothing like a meal at the Waffle House after driving more than 60 animals from the South Carolina coast to southern Alabama inside of a school bus. Tony Alsup can attest. Alsup, a 51-year-old trucker from Greenback, Tennessee, was parked at a Waffle House outside Fayetteville, North Carolina, Sunday night for a quick […]
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Chat archive: Should Maine tax its nonprofits?
Live Blog Taxing Nonprofits in Maine AUGUSTA – A tax reform plan by Gov. Paul LePage as part of his 2016-2017 two-year budget proposal is drawing plenty of attention. Among other things the plan would allow cities and towns to apply a property tax to nonprofit organizations that hold more than $500,000 in property. […]
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Harrison town manager embattled in cat feud defends comments
HARRISON — Embattled Town Manager George “Bud” Finch defended comments he made earlier this week suggesting he was indifferent to animal welfare as taken out out of context by the media. A story from WGME 13, which ran in the Bangor Daily News on Friday, quoted an animal welfare advocate who said Finch told her that […]
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Maine program to provide fresh fish to the hungry
AUGUSTA (AP) — Needy families in Maine will receive donations of fresh fish caught at ice fishing tournaments this winter. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is expanding the Hunters for the Hungry Program to include fish caught at ice fishing derbies in New Gloucester in January and Sebago Lake and Kezar Lake […]
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Statistics on homelessness vary, but still point to urgent need in Maine
BANGOR — Agencies combating homelessness in Maine say the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s homeless counts for Maine are probably inflated, but that doesn’t mean the state doesn’t have a serious problem to tackle. On Nov. 21, HUD released its 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Some news was good — a […]