Colorado native holds off 5-time national champ in final day of competition at Sugarloaf.
March 2017
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Readfield prepares warrant for Town Meeting
A public meeting is scheduled for April 12; then selectmen will finalize the warrant for the secret-ballot vote in June.
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100 years ago, an adjustable tourniquet invented by Augusta man was new technology
Leo Murphy found the drawings and hundreds of the devices in the attic at Plummer’s Funeral Home in Augusta.
Posted inMaine, News
Canaan snowmobiler sent to hospital after breaking leg on homemade ramp
Robert Dyer, 19, suffered a broken leg when he crashed his snowmobile off a handmade jump at a friend’s house, according to the Maine Warden Service.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Politics
Two midcoast businessmen plan to sue state over cap on opioid painkiller doses
A new DHHS rule is aimed at reducing addiction, but the long-term users with chronic pain say they need strong medication to function and do their jobs.
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Benton selectmen unable to settle yet on town employee health plan
The board came to no decisions Monday but hopes to do so by its April 10 meeting, following voter approval at Town Meeting to fund town staff health insurance at a cost of up to $60,000.
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Shareholders of FairPoint, Illinois telecom firm approve $1.5 billion merger
By midyear, Consolidated Communications may be taking over FairPoint’s broadband and landline phone service in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
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Monmouth voters to consider repeal of five-dog limit
Neither Monmouth police Chief Kevin Mulherin nor Town Manager Curtis Lunt knew why the limit was included in the town’s animal control ordinance when it was adopted 10 years ago.
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Maine attorney general launches ad warning of link between prescription painkillers, heroin
Four in 5 heroin users say they started on a prescription, says Janet Mills, whose office produced the spot that will appear on television in the coming months.
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Trump moves decisively to wipe out Obama’s climate change record
The order will mandate a review of the Clean Power Plan, which restricts greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants.