The sap is running — sporadically — just in time for Maine Maple Sunday, following a topsy-turvy stretch of winter weather that’s enabled sap to flow a little earlier than usual only to be halted at times by late-season chills.
March 2017
Posted inNews, Politics
Republican health-care plan, facing conservative revolt, lacks votes for passage
Trump and Pence both made appeals to House Republicans on Wednesday but they seemed to fall on deaf ears.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Man charged with attempted murder in 2015 Old Port shooting will admit to having gun
Moses Okot, who was already on probation in a 2010 murder, was arrested near the site of the stabbing and shooting after a police officer saw him driving fast from the area.
Posted inNews, Politics
Republican Rep. Nunes: Trump communications may have been intercepted in surveillance of foreign nationals
The House Intelligence Committee chair says that the president was not wiretapped but communications were part of the incidental collection of intelligence.
Posted inNation & World, News
Supreme Court: School districts must help disabled students progress
Chief Justice John Roberts said that schools must go beyond giving special needs children minimal instruction.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Madison man charged with sexual assault on 14-year-old girl
Eric Horan, 36, allegedly assaulted the girl in December and then fled the area to escape arrest, police said.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine home sales down, values up in February
Sales were down nearly 13 percent compared with a year earlier, but the median price shot up 12.5 percent.
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Canaan Town Meeting voters asked to raise municipal spending
A proposed town budget is up $172,205, while four candidates are on the election ballot for three seats on the Board of Selectmen.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Federal regulators put an end to turbulent season in northern Gulf of Maine scallop fishery
The season was fraught with controversy between small-boat fishermen from Maine and full-time scallopers operating bigger boats, and the closure pleases many fishermen.
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Unity Town Meeting voters to face reduced municipal spending, retail marijuana poll
The Town Meeting is scheduled for Saturday at the Unity Elementary School gymnasium, while election ballot voting is to take place Friday.