October 11, 2023
2023
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Maine watchdog seeks to have Electricity Maine’s license revoked, says it overcharges
Some of the electricity supplier’s customers pay 40 cents per kilowatt hour, compared with the state’s standard offer of 17.6 cents, according to the state’s consumer advocate.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Compass: Talk to teens about the danger of flavored tobacco
As an assistant principal in Augusta, I have witnessed students lose interest in sports, school work, extracurricular activities, and even friendships because they become addicted to flavored tobacco.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Tom Waddell: Fight over abortion is far from over
Abortion is essential to women’s reproductive health care. Some conditions that make abortion necessary include the criminal or medical ills of rape, incest, intimate partner violence, illness or illegal drug use during pregnancy that affects the fetus, and life-threatening fetal abnormalities. Where abortion is illegal, women often resort to unsafe means to end unwanted pregnancies, […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Freight railroad free-for-all is unacceptable
The secrecy enjoyed by railroads leaves Maine unable to either evaluate or respond to potentially extraordinary risks to public health and safety.
Posted inOn this date
Oct. 11, 1958: Former Waterville office building landmark to disappear forever, Maine newspapers ‘stack up well’ says Gov. Muskie, and Waterville Board of Education has five rules for students using cars to travel to and from school
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
Posted inObituaries
Obituary: Alfred Clement Dostie
ROWLETT, Texas – Alfred Clement Dostie passed unexpectedly on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, at 75. He was born in Augusta in …