When we are young, June was the beginning of what seemed an endless summer, but as we grow older, we learn that the season passes in the blink of an eye, Amy Calder writes.
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Maine news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
CMP, Maine near settlement over complaint utility overspent on power restoration
Central Maine Power Co. and the state’s public advocate are nearing agreement on how much the utility can charge ratepayers for storm recovery costs.
Amtrak’s heat-delay altered schedules won’t impact Maine, rail authority says
There will likely still be delays on the Downeaster when high temperatures affect the metal rails, but the schedule is staying put, for the time being.
Sen. Susan Collins decries Trump’s conviction
The other members of Maine’s congressional delegation take an opposing position on Trump’s conviction on felony charges, with Sen. Angus King and Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden seeing the trial and its outcome as a validation of the U.S. justice system.
Maine State Police investigating death of toddler in Thomaston
It is unclear what the child’s cause of death is at this time.
Sheriff denies that officers responding to Lewiston mass shooting had been drinking
‘I am confident that our members responded to the mass casualty event in Lewiston in both a sober and professional manner,’ Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce said.
Update: Athens man identified in single-vehicle fatal crash in Hartland
Matthew J. Sites, 56, of Athens, who was killed in the crash, was a longtime newspaper carrier for the Morning Sentinel.
Bust at illegal marijuana grow site near St. Albans day care turns up hundreds of plants, police say
The property marks the 18th illegal marijuana grow busted in Somerset County this year, police said.
Vermont police won’t charge Maine couple in case of dead baby in 1982
Vermont State Police worked with a DNA technology company to do genealogy analysis that led them the mother and father, who confirmed they were the parents.
‘A space that’s welcoming for everyone’: A Coffeehouse opens in Waterville
A Coffeehouse is now open in the former Record Connection building at 252 Main St. in Waterville, where patrons are invited to drop in, sip coffee or tea, enjoy a meal, play a tune, read a book or talk politics.