The six-state region has 33,200 megawatts available. Demand is expected to peak at about 22,255 megawatts.
December 2011
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Feeling hardy? Winter campsites along Allagash available
Waterway Superintendent Matthew LaRoche anticipates renting out most of the 48 available sites by noon on the first day of registration.
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Nature Conservancy buys groundfish permit
The permit will be provided to Maine fishermen with a dual goal of keeping fishermen busy and conducting research.
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COMMENTARY: Family values Gingrich’s toughest sell
Herman Cain, who suspended his presidential campaign this weekend after cascading reports of personal failings, is the exception. American voters are increasingly tolerant when it comes to private behavior
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New lights in Hallowell
Hallowell Public Works employees Chris Buck, left, and Tony LaPlante unveil a new street lamp Monday on Water Street in Hallowell. City crews and electrician Rick Godbout installed four new poles and replaced 22 lights with lanterns on the sidewalk along Water Street. The LED lights are expected to provide the same illumination at half […]
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SNAPSHOT: Dry run
Maine State Police cadet Niles Krech, right, seizes a shotgun Monday from a pickup operated by David Webber during a class conducted at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro. Law enforcement students enrolled at the Academy are participating in live training scenarios around the campus this week with police officers from agencies across Maine. […]
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Fugitive has lengthy criminal record
The night after Labor Day in 1996, David Hobson and two buddies spray-painted graffiti on as many as 10 businesses in downtown Sanford.
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Law enforcement officials urge escaped convict to surrender
Authorities are urging an escaped convict who scaled a fence topped with razor wire and may now be armed with a gun and on the run in York County to surrender to police before he or someone else gets hurt.
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Tent fire at Capitol Park called arson
AUGUSTA — State investigators were working Monday night to determine what started a fire that damaged a tent at the Occupy Augusta encampment at Capitol Park.
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Airport taxi drivers suing city of Portland
PORTLAND — Eleven airport taxi drivers and owners from Somalia are suing the city anout a new policy that will prohibit them from using authorized representatives to renew their licenses.