Augusta will likely need to use tax increment financing money to help pay to convert nine of the arena’s 18 boilers from propane to natural gas.
2014
Trustees vote to shift UMaine Farmington to natural gas
The move leaves four UMaine campuses with unclear energy futures.
Former teachers from Jefferson, Winslow indicted on child sex abuse offenses
One man, Patrik Ian Arsenault, faces 13 charges and the other, David W. Morissette, faces four charges.
Cash mob planned for Gardiner
Organizers of the Feb. 8 event will announce the meeting place a couple of days before the cash mob.
Augusta man denies shaking, injuring baby daughter
Augusta police stopped Kevin Peaslee after he ran a stop sign taking 6-month old to the hospital, and immediately sought medical help for her, a police department spokesman said.
Nun, 83, to be sentenced for sabotage at nuclear facility
Sister Megan Rice is one of three Catholic peace activists convicted of sabotage last year after they broke into a nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee.
Two snowmobilers survive close call in Maine water
The two Brewer-area men are charged with operating under the influence after driving their machines onto open water in Sinclair.
Victim recalls terrifying ride; Maine kidnapper gets 14 years
Alexander Filatov describes being abducted in his BMW’s trunk by Travis Landry, a U.S. Army veteran from Surry.
Data breaches not changing shoppers’ habits, poll finds
Security experts say Americans have come to expect that security theft is possible when they use their credit or debit cards or provide personal information.