AUGUSTA — A man committed to state custody went AWOL from his supervised-living apartment in the city last November and was arrested by police five days later in Georgia.
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SAD 54 voters forward budget to ballot
SKOWHEGAN — Voters have approved School Administrative District 54’s proposed $32.33 million budget for the coming school year.
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‘My heart is busted in half’
NEWPORT — An aunt and uncle who helped raise Jay Brainard said Wednesday the soldier loved the Maine outdoors, loved his family and was honored to serve in the military.
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Lachowicz can accomplish much in Senate District 25
“A New Day” is the campaign slogan for Colleen Lachowicz, our candidate for Senate District 25. She has more than 15 years of on-the-job experience, working with the mentally ill and other disadvantaged people living in Maine. Most of these people were unable to care for themselves and would have gone without the benefits they […]
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FOR THE BIRDS: Black Scoters stand out by staying in formation
I got fooled again. My wife and I were recently looking out over Johnson Bay, a small embayment in Lubec that is a part of Cobscook Bay. Over the water I saw a long string of dark material. I thought it was a line of algal wrack, carried offshore by the powerful tides in Cobscook Bay and caught at the interface between two currents.
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Turn Elm St. church into community center
We don’t need another elderly housing project in the area at this time. It would be nice if the city of Waterville bought St. Francis de Sales church on Elm Street and turned it into a museum that highlights the history of the Waterville area along with preserving the history and integrity of the church. […]
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Don’t let polio, nearly gone, come back to life
Nothing demonstrates human interconnectedness like the spread of infectious disease.
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Norridgewock airport given $2 million grant for runway repair
NORRIDGEWOCK — The Central Maine Airport will receive a $2.17 million grant for runway repairs, according to an announcement Thursday from U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud, D-2nd District.
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OUR OPINION: Voters should decide on proven job creator bond
No issue is more important to Maine people than jobs and our state’s sluggish recovery from the national recession.
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BERNIE REIM: Solstice will be eclipsed by rare transit of Venus
June always marks the beginning of summer for us in the Northern Hemisphere. That will happen at 7:09 p.m. Wednesday, June 20. The sun reaches its highest and northernmost point on the celestial sphere at that moment. That is also known as the summer solstice and will give us the longest day and shortest night of the year.