Around the state, this major case before Maine’s highest court captures growing tension between those who support and oppose private ownership of Maine’s intertidal land.
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Morin’s Fine Furniture owner leaves family business in good hands as she eases into retirement
Cathy Raynor, a third-generation owner of the business, has sold her company and assets to a next generation tradesman who is 20 years younger.
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Posted inMaine, News
A Maine man helped get the Defense Department to release detailed suicide data. He’s not satisfied.
Chris McGhee, a 20-year U.S. Air Force veteran-turned lawyer now living in Scarborough, said the report mandated as part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act does not do what the law says it was supposed to do.
Posted inMaine
A wild pig scramble and reflections on our hankering for local fairs
How one Maine reporter learned to love the pig scramble and found old memories on and off the midway.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Auburn couple ‘throwing hands up’ after trying to open day care near Lake Auburn
Tom and Kathleen Reed are looking to sell their property after trying for two years to open a day care business at an historic home near Lake Auburn.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, News
Hundreds of Maine firefighters gather in Waterville for 60th state convention
Events on Saturday during the Maine State Federation of Firefighters Convention featured a parade representing the fire service from Maine’s 16 counties and a firemen’s muster featuring antique “hand tub” firefighting apparatuses.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine’s energy efficiency agency is bullish on electric heat pump installation
A shift in incentives to whole-home heat pumps prompts questions about cost and vulnerability in power outages.
Posted inElection 2024, Maine, Politics
Gwen Walz tells supporters in Portland to ‘choose a new way forward’
Walz spoke at a rally at Thompson’s Point Friday night after stops in Bangor as part of a blitz by the Harris-Walz campaign on the heels of the presidential debate.
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Maine man sent to South Carolina psychiatric facility to be released from state custody
Superior Court Justice Daniel Billings agreed to discharge Malcolm Moore, 50, from a state-run psychiatric hospital. Moore has been in state custody for more than 12 years after he was found not criminally responsible for stabbing his neighbor.
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ConvenientMD medical facility approved in Farmington
Mike d’Hemecourt, developer at Harborlight Properties of Portland, said the plan is to start building as soon as possible in the spring and finish by the end of the year.