For a handful of year-round residents and camp owners in the unorganized territory, a proposed power line corridor through an otherwise off-the-grid area brings concerns and questions at the heart of why they live there.
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Witness says John Williams was in withdrawal when he confessed to killing deputy
Williams, who is charged with murder in the slaying of Somerset County Cpl. Eugene Cole last April, is seeking to suppress statements he made to police after he was arrested.
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Machinists at Sappi in Skowhegan ratify contract, avoiding strike
Members of Local 2740 of the International Association of Machinists approved the new three-year contract Thursday after Sappi removed provisions that would have weakened the overtime list grievance procedure.
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Farmington woman severely injured in head-on crash in Mercer
A 2001 Nissan Altima was traveling east in the westbound lane when it collided with a 2013 Volkswagen Beetle traveling west toward New Sharon.
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Brief thaw brings rain, slick driving conditions to central Maine
Forecasts call for a return to more seasonal weather Friday and Saturday.
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Somerset County woman killed in highway crash in Carmel
Kathryn Hallett, 66, of Cambridge was a passenger in a truck driven by her husband that skidded out of control in snowy conditions on Interstate 95, Maine State Police say.
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Police arrest alleged Norridgewock drug dealer visited by suspect in slaying of Cpl. Cole
The Norridgewock home of Richard Austin, who was arrested Thursday, is where police found Cole’s marked police truck after he was shot fatally April 25.
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CMP power line supporters make their case to Somerset County commissioners
SKOWHEGAN — Central Maine Power rolled out the big guns Wednesday for Somerset County commissioners, who heard support for the company’s proposed 145-mile power line through Maine connecting hydropower from Quebec to Massachusetts. From Peter Vigue, president of Cianbro Corp., to outdoor recreation business owners and a local selectman who read a letter from Maine […]
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Foes of CMP power line gear up for protest in Skowhegan
SKOWHEGAN — A group opposed to the 145-mile transmission line proposed by Central Maine Power Co. through parts of rural Somerset County plan to deliver their concerns to county commissioners at their regular meeting Wednesday. The meeting is scheduled for 3 p.m. in the commissioners’ room in the courthouse on High Street. Sandi Howard, administrator […]
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Historic newspapers found in Norway attic returned to Skowhegan
SKOWHEGAN — Bundles of old newspapers, some from the 1800s, have been returned to Skowhegan, where they were published, after untold decades in the attic of a western Maine newspaper. Copies of the Skowhegan Somerset Reporter, the Independent-Reporter, the Madison Bulletin, the Waterville Morning Sentinel and others now sit in a garage on Elm Street, […]