City councilors are scheduled to consider Wednesday night a proposal from Auburn Concrete to change the zoning at its business which would allow the firm to seek a mineral extraction permit from the city so it could blast rock both for use in making concrete and to level the site to create more usable space.
May 2013
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Central Maine Power seeks to raise electric rates
The company says reliability and billing would improve. But are services already adequate?
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Maine’s unsung heroes, the warden service, finally getting their due
The Maine Warden Service was formed in 1880. Its first arrest was of a deer poacher. To many, that’s what wardens still are — the men and women who, under the auspices of the state’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, enforce the state’s game laws.
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Portland author to appear on Travel Channel
Sarah Thomson will talk about ‘Mercy: The Last New England Vampire.’
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Firefighters still monitoring Lewiston brush fire
The fire broke out Tuesday afternoon and took several hours to bring under control.
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Maine tax code overhaul gets tepid response
Several critics attack the sweeping proposal as too similar to a reform plan overturned by voters in 2010.
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Maine philanthropist gets fitting farewell
About 400 people, including actor Michael J.Fox, attend Al Glickman’s funeral in Portland, remembering ‘Uncle Al’ as ‘a visionary.’
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Three accused of trying to protect Boston bomb suspect
The 19-year-olds were not accused of any role in the bombing itself, but he did tell two of them he knew how to make a bomb, according to the FBI.
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Readfield home damaged in fire Wednesday
A fire damaged a Route 41 home in Readfield Wednesday, displacing two people and their pets.
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Friends of bombing suspect in immigration court
The two have been held in a county jail for more than a week on allegations that they violated their student visas.