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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.