If you suspended reality, Friday’s 50th reunion Beach Boys concert on the Bangor waterfront felt pretty authentic . . .
June 2012
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Police: June 22
IN ANSON, Thursday at 6:16 p.m., fire units performed a water rescue on Madison Street.
Friday, 1:29 p.m., fire units responded to a vehicle fire on West Mills Road.
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Farmingdale rejects pipeline tax break again
FARMINGDALE — Voters for the second time rejected a tax break for a natural gas pipeline company and a selectman who touted it barely survived his reelection bid Friday.
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Retiring Thomas College president honored at event
WATERVILLE — When George Spann was named president of Thomas College in 1989, most of the members of the current undergraduate student body had not yet been born.
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ALLEN AFIELD: Eastern hemlock faces uncertain future
An exotic insect, the hemlock wooly adelgid, is causing widespread mortality of eastern hemlocks across the eastern United States, where this important conifer grows in dense groves in the Northeast but occurs in sparser stands in the South.
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Man electrocuted in West Gardiner
WEST GARDINER — He was born, raised, educated and killed in this town, all within about a mile.
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HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Scarborough’s Wessel wins Winkin award
ORONO — A torn ulnar collateral ligament kept Scarborough High School’s Ben Wessel off the mound for the second half of the baseball season, but it didn’t lessen Wessel’s worth to the Red Storm.
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Pharmacy robberies reaching epidemic level in Maine
AUGUSTA — A drug store holdup this week just a few blocks from the State House was the 23rd of the year by bandits seeking pharmaceutical drugs. Maine’s next drug store robbery will tie the total for all of 2011, state officials said.
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More municipalities express desire to leave RSUs
AUGUSTA — Three years have passed since the first regional school units formed in response to Maine’s consolidation law.
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Where’s Waldo event in Waterville July 1-31
WATERVILLE — Where’s Waldo will be 25 years old this year, and to celebrate, the fellow in the striped shirt and black-rimmed specs will visit 20 different local businesses through the month of July.