AUGUSTA — The purchase of an over-the-counter medication and the sight of a suspect “burping” a bottle in which police believe methamphetamine was being made led to the arrest of three men on drug trafficking charges Wednesday and a raid of the premises in Monmouth the following day.
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LePage: Toll hike can’t be avoided
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage says he supports the need to raise tolls on the Maine Turnpike, and that poor management decisions in the past are requiring increases that could have been avoided or reduced.
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Camera catches fuel thefts; police investigate
WINDSOR — Maine State Police are seeking the public’s help identifying two men who appear in security photos to be siphoning fuel after hours from Moody’s Electric.
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Beach Boys concert: feel-good, not so memorable
If you suspended reality, Friday’s 50th reunion Beach Boys concert on the Bangor waterfront felt pretty authentic . . .
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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.