Town plans to redevelop the site of the former Great Northern Paper Company mill for industrial users.
2020
Posted inNation & World, Obituaries
Former Mississippi politician, civil rights activist Charles Evers dies at 97
Evers was galvanized by the assassination of his younger brother, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, and went on to transform politics in the deeply segregated state.
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Posted inNation & World
White House scrambles on nursing homes as COVID-19 surges
President Trump says his administration will provide another $5 billion to help nursing homes battle COVID-19.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
White House, Republicans agree to virus testing but aid bill shifts
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is now preparing a “handful” of pandemic relief bills instead of a single package amid disagreement within his own party.
Posted inElections, Nation & World, Politics
Biden calls Trump the country’s ‘first’ racist president
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was responding to a question about how President Trump characterizes the coronavirus outbreak.
Posted inFeature Obituary, Maine, News
Richard Goodine, 75, was longtime comptroller at Port Harbor Marine
A longtime resident of South Portland, he rose above significant hardships in his youth to become a successful accountant and an active member of his community.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine’s high court backs town in Cape Elizabeth waterfront street fight
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court agrees that several residents of the Shore Acres subdivision don’t own a strip of land between their homes and the rocky edge of Broad Cove.
Posted inNation & World, Outdoors, Uncategorized
Congress passes sprawling plan to boost conservation, parks
Supporters hail the bipartisan $3 billion bill as a historic win after years of deferred maintenance at national parks and wildlife refuges.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
New Orleans musician offers kids trumpets for guns
Shamarr Allen started the project last week, after a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed and 2 teens were wounded.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Homebuyers from away aren’t flocking to Maine … yet
Real estate agents have anticipated that the coronavirus might lead more out-of-state residents to relocate to Maine, but so far the numbers aren’t showing it.