State Sen. Cynthia Dill, the Democrat from Cape Elizabeth who hopes to replace Olympia Snowe in the U.S. Senate, raised more than $66,000 for her election bid over a three-month period, according to new campaign finance reports.
July 2012
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Teen shot at Gorham home during arson attempt
GORHAM — A 14-year-old boy was shot at a Gorham home in connection with an attempted arson around 11:45 p.m. Friday.
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No ID released for man killed in crash
GARDINER — Police have yet to release the name of a man killed Friday afternoon after the Jeep Liberty he was driving went off U.S. Route 201 and struck a building belonging to Maine Drilling & Blasting.
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Black shines in ‘Day of the Locust’
“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.”
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Festival offers plenty to savor
AUGUSTA — Soft brown sugar melted into the butter atop the golden brown crepes.
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Montville man buys Washington funeral medal on eBay
AUGUSTA — George Washington had been dead for a couple of weeks when two funeral processions were held for him in Boston.
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Savings driving energy choices
AUGUSTA — The entire south side of the Augusta Civic Center would be covered in solar panels, filling the large auditorium inside with hot air, as part of a proposed series of $2.1 million in energy efficiency improvements.
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Playground four years in the making
GARDINER — Tookie Amosum remembers the old metal slide and free-standing monkey bars behind the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Gardiner.
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A game, and a culture
AUGUSTA — It was the luck of the draw. That’s how Ray Fecteau of Augusta and Jim Brogan of Fayette ended up as partners in Saturday’s pétanque mini-tournament and then as winners. They each took home a tall trophy of a classic pétanque player.
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Karen Black talks career, love of Maine
WATERVILLE — Karen Black doesn’t have much use for films that rely on loud special effects and computer generated images to grab a viewer’s attention.