Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
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Posted inFootball, Sports, Varsity Maine
Football: Cony and Gardiner set to meet for the 146th time in a matchup with major implications
Both teams are 3-3 and vying for a key win as the Class B North playoff race takes shape.
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Posted inEvents
Watch: Open Door with Steve Mills, CEO of Maine Beer Company
This conversation took place on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University.
Posted inEvents, News, Open Door
Watch: Open Door with Megan Walton, CEO of the Southern Maine Agency on Aging
This live conversation took place on Wednesday, February 26 at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University.
Posted inElection 2024
Meet the candidates for Wiscasset-area House District 47
Incumbent Ed Polewarczyk, a Republican, and Democrat Wayne Farrin face off to represent Wiscasset, Alna, Jefferson and Whitefield in the Maine Legislature.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
Mitzi Gaynor, star of ‘South Pacific,’ dies at 93
The screen version of ‘South Pacific’ received three Academy Award nominations and won for best sound, while Gaynor was a best actress nominee for a Golden Globe.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, News
Augusta ponders how to spend remaining federal funding
With about $250,000 in American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, funding still to be allocated before the end of the year, city officials are considering whether to use the money to extend downtown police patrols, fix the Civic Center or help public schools narrow a $1.6 million budget gap.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Woodland man arrested in connection with explosive devices targeting residents
Joshua Brydon, 37, was charged with multiple counts of arson and criminal use of explosives.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Maine Crime
Monmouth police arrest Winthrop man after convenience store burglary
Police say Zach Lowe, 32, allegedly broke through the front window at Phil’s Super Variety & Grill early Tuesday and took lottery tickets, cash and cigarettes.
Posted inNation & World, News
Israel says it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza
Sinwar was one of the chief architects of Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel has vowed to kill him since the beginning of its retaliatory campaign in Gaza.