Docks were a priority of the Recreation Committee, which had come up with recommendations on how to use a recent $360,000 endowment.
2017
Posted inNation & World
Poll shows majority disapprove Trump’s handling of Puerto Rico hurricane
Critics say the president failed to grasp the magnitude of Maria’s destruction as quickly as he did the twin wallops of Harvey and Irma.
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Trump tax cuts would give little to poorest Mainers, windfall to wealthiest, report says
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that those with the lowest incomes would receive 1.6 percent of the cuts, while the state’s wealthiest residents would get 39 percent.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Police still examining evidence, conducting interviews in Saco shooting death
Five days after Michael Burns, 53, was shot to death, the gunman has not been taken into custody.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Fairfield tile installer accused of stealing postal money orders
Brandon J. Knox is scheduled for a hearing later this month in federal court on a charge of theft of government property.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Casino referendum battle intensifies with website attacking ‘Shady Shawn’
Opponents try to paint the potential developer of a York County gambling facility and some of its financial backers as unethical, and their targets fire back.
Posted inNation & World
The worst kind of spotlight: When a relative is the mass shooter
For the family of a mass shooter, there are only questions, all of them tinged with the underlying implication of blame.
Posted inMaine, News
Halsey Frank confirmed as Maine’s new federal prosecutor
Frank replaces Thomas Delahanty II who was one of 46 prosecuters fired by Donald Trump in March.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Jury deliberates for four hours, to resume Thursday in Robert Burton murder trial
After Robert Burton took the stand in his own defense over two days, the case has gone to the jury of five women and seven men.