Towns want and need more housing but say they lack the developers and the money to make it happen.
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Posted inFeature Obituary, Maine, News
West Bath boy who died last week loved sports, was eager to try flag football
Whether he was playing sports or helping his folks around the house, the 7-year-old carried a rich and contagious enthusiasm, his father, Nathan Briggs, said.
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Posted inMaine, News
Foam spill flushes wave of toxic chemicals into troubled Androscoggin River
‘We will be dealing with the fallout of this for generations to come,’ says Ed Friedman, chairman of Friends of Merrymeeting Bay.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
West Nile virus found in Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Washington counties
Mosquito-borne illnesses have now been found in 13 of Maine’s 16 counties.
Posted inNation & World
6-year-old boy kidnapped in California in 1951 found alive more than 70 years later
An online ancestry test helped locate Luis Armando Albino, who was 6 in 1951 when a woman kidnapped him, flying him to the East Coast where he ended up with a couple who raised him as their own son.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, News, Politics
Texas jury clears most ‘Trump Train’ drivers in trial over Biden-Harris bus encounter
The jury found one person liable in a civil trial over a so-called ‘Trump Train’ that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus in 2020.
Posted inNation & World, News
At the UN, world leaders try to lay out a vision for the future – and actually make it happen
The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a ‘Pact for the Future’ as it heads into its big meeting on Tuesday.
Posted inLocal Government, News
Jay residents approve $63,000 for police wages
Jay police will receive an additional $63,000 toward pay after residents approved moving money from the undesignated fund balance.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, News, Politics
U.S. to seek attempted assassination charge against man accused of staking out Trump at golf course
The suspect wrote a note months earlier saying that he intended to kill the former president, the Justice Department said.
Posted inNation & World
Southeast U.S. under major storm warning as hurricane watch issued for parts of Cuba and Mexico
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency in 41 counties on Monday as a result of the expected storm.