A federal judge has ordered the Dakota Access pipeline to shut down until more environmental review is done.
2020
Posted inCommunity
UMaine Extension to host wild blueberry virtual field days in July
University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host weekly wild blueberry virtual field days from 5 to 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, July 9 through 30, according to a news release from the UMaine Extension office in Orono. Lily Calderwood, an assistant professor of horticulture with UMaine Extension, will begin the series by leading a session about […]
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Posted inNation & World, Uncategorized
Justices rule states can bind presidential electors’ votes
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College.
Posted inNation & World, News
The Latest: New York hospitals released 6,300 virus patients to nursing homes
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world. NEW YORK — New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial, now-scrapped policy, state officials said Monday, but they argued it was not to blame for one of […]
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Portland police investigate shots fired into station parking garage
An officer who was inside the garage at the time was not injured, according to police.
Posted inThe Maine Forecast
Some sun, some storms, some humidity and a big warm-up
Lots of weather this week and no two days will be the same. Everything from dry, sunny days in the 70s to humid and in the 90s is on the table.
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Oscar-winning movie composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91
Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” has died.
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Maine hotels step up safety measures to prove quarantines aren’t needed
Some are going to extreme lengths to keep air purified, guests spread apart and high-touch items disinfected.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Things to Do
From the radio, North Atlantic Blues Festival will feel like it’s really happening
Recordings and interviews played on air will take place of the annual event in Rockland.
Posted inBicentennial, Maine, News
On this date in Maine history: July 6
July 6, 1854: A mob incited by a street preacher named Brown burns the Old South Meeting House in Bath, which was bought by Irish Catholics to serve as a church. The incident is one of several violent anti-Catholic crimes that occurs in the 1850s in Maine, including the tarring of the Rev. John (or […]