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PublishedApril 14, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 14, narrated by Brett Williams
April 14, 1905: Flames sweep through the business district in the York County village of Springvale, consuming two shoe factories, 20 commercial buildings and 15 residences. The fire begins in the W.R. Usher & Son boot and shoe factory’s boiler room and spreads rapidly. Local firefighting equipment proves inadequate to deal with the task. The […]
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PublishedApril 13, 2020
Portland may offer incentives to convert short-term rentals to long-term housing
Portland postponed the meeting when Monday’s storm threatened to knock out power.
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PublishedApril 13, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 13, narrated by Patrice McCarron
April 13, 1976: President Gerald Ford signs the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, which affects Maine’s fishing industry directly. The law, which takes effect in 1977 and later is amended several times, establishes an exclusive fishing zone 200 miles out to sea from all U.S. coastlines. The law, which prescribes fishery management through […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 12, narrated by Katherine Joyce
April 12, 2019: Bernstein Shur, Maine’s largest law firm, picks a female chief executive officer for the first time. Joan Fortin assumes her new duties in January 2020. At the time of her selection, no woman holds the top job at Maine’s 15 largest law firms, according to a MaineBiz magazine annual survey. Bernstein Shur […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 11, narrated by Nancy Marshall
April 11, 1955: Former U.S. Rep. John Nelson, a Colby College trustee, dies in Augusta at the age of 80. While in Congress, Nelson, a Republican, drew notice for refusing to sign a committee report calling for denying citizenship to naturalized communists. A China native and Colby College and University of Maine School of Law […]
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PublishedApril 10, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 10, with a message from Travis Mills
April 10, 1836: The matron in a New York City brothel discovers about 3 a.m. that somebody has killed Helen Jewett, a 22-year-old prostitute from Maine, and has set Jewett’s bed on fire, partially charring her body. One of Jewett’s regular clients, Richard P. Robinson, later is arrested, tried and acquitted amid a storm of […]
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PublishedApril 9, 2020
On this date in Maine history April 9: narrated by Amy Calder
April 9, 1991: Prolific author Louise Dickinson Rich, who often wrote about Maine, dies at 87 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Rich, a Massachusetts native who worked as a teacher, met Ralph Rich, an engineer, on a canoeing trip in the Rangeley area in 1933. They married, fled from their workaday world to Maine and lived in […]
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PublishedApril 8, 2020
State asks Mainers to stop tossing gloves on the ground after use
The improper disposal of gloves is a growing litter problem and a biohazard concern around the country.
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PublishedApril 8, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 8, narrated by Kate Snyder
April 8, 1851: Neal Dow (1804-1897) is elected mayor of Portland. He quickly uses his influence in that position to lobby successfully for passage later that year of a state law generally banning the purchase and consumption of alcoholic beverages, earning Dow the nickname “the Napoleon of Temperance.” The law, which becomes known nationally as […]
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PublishedApril 7, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 7, narrated by Colin Woodard
April 7, 2010: Maine’s Legislature issues a statement of apology for state officials’ forcible eviction a century earlier of a largely interracial group of residents from Malaga Island, in Casco Bay. The island lies off Phippsburg near the mouth of the New Meadows River. A racially mixed community of squatter fishermen’s families lived there. Newspaper […]
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