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Somerville woman guilty on 7 counts

AUGUSTA — A Somerville woman on Thursday admitted bringing Klonopin pills with her to jail and stealing items from a pharmacy in Waterville and a dress from an Augusta store.

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SNAPSHOT: Sap sucker

Shelley Bacon checks a vacuum pump in a maple grove Wednesday afternoon in Sidney. She said that plastic tubes are hooked up to about 1,800 trees stretching a mile up from the road. The sap will later be boiled into syrup at her family’s business, Bacon Farm Maple Products, at the corner of Pond and Goodhue Roads in Sidney. The state will celebrate Maine Maple Sunday on March 25.

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Efforts to repair gutted Clean Elections Act stalled

AUGUSTA — Efforts to patch up a gaping hole left by the courts in Maine’s public campaign financing law failed Thursday as the state Senate voted to remove the so-called “matching fund” provision from the law. The bill faces further House and Senate votes.