The weather service has issued a flood warning for Brownville and the surrounding area into this afternoon.
June 2012
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MLB: Blue Jays power their way past Sox
BOSTON (AP) — Jose Bautista, Colby Rasmus and J.P. Arencibia hit two-run homers Monday night to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 9-6 victory over Boston despite two home runs by David Ortiz that tied him for the most multihomer games in Sox history.
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SNAPSHOT: Casting about
Stephen Dickey, of Hallowell, casts a fly line recently for Striped Bass at the boat landing on the Kennebec River in Hallowell. Dickey said he has spotted plenty of the anadromous game fish that migrates from salt to fresh water to spawn but has yet to catch any.
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SNAPSHOT: Gathering storm
Zack Dionne, 15, drives his all-terrain vehicle to cover Monday at the Fisher Farm in Vassalboro ahead of an approaching thunderstorm. Dionne, of Vassalboro, had been tending the first crop of spring hay with the John Deere tractor at the dairy farm, which has 190 cows. Farmhands said they hoped to resume cutting and baling […]
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Winthrop officials trim tax increase
WINTHROP — First, the School Board approved a series of cuts Monday evening that lopped $117,000 from the proposed budget for the 2012-2013 school year. Then the Town Council took a turn, reopening the town budget adopted June 4 and removing $120,000, voting to use surplus funds for road maintenance rather than using property taxes.
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Man survives ultralight crash; dies in tree fall
William Gaddis Sr. was taking the ultralight aircraft he had built out for its inaugural flight Sunday when it crashed into trees across the street from his backyard landing strip.
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Durham doctor in crash
Julie Tate heard the buzz of her husband’s 1946 Stinson Voyager outside their home in Durham late Sunday morning. As usual, she took the dogs outside to wave as he circled overheard.
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Officials call apartment fire suspicious
WATERVILLE — Fire officials are calling an apartment fire at 11 Elm Court suspicious and say they are continuing to investigate the Sunday blaze.
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Petitioner fails to meet target
WATERVILLE — Petitioner Kendrick Whitney failed to gather enough signatures to have the city reconsider a consumer fireworks ban.
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Justices rule against parts of Arizona law on immigration
WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court threw out major parts of Arizona’s tough crackdown on illegal immigrants Monday in a ruling sure to reverberate through the November elections. The justices unanimously approved the law’s most-discussed provision — requiring police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons — but limited the consequences.