Three years ago, when Peter Robinson and Stavros Mendros were drafting a citizens initiative to allow a casino in an empty mill building in downtown Lewiston, they decided the casino wouldn’t share its revenue with Maine’s harness racing industry. Maine’s horsemen were already getting millions of dollars annually from Hollywood Slots in Bangor, they figured.
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Bangor ground zero for ‘bath salts’ in Maine
PORTLAND — Twenty-seven-year-old Kyle Clukey has used lots of different drugs over the past 10 years. Then, this summer, something new arrived in Bangor, and he gave it a try. It was a strong, synthetic cocaine-like powder sold in stores as “bath salts” and known on the street as monkey dust.
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Morning Sentinel police log: Oct. 9, 2011
IN ANSON, Friday at 3:21 p.m., a report of larceny or fraud was taken from Pine Street.
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Natural gas extensions could need state support
Achieving Maine’s goal of extending natural gas lines to unserved areas — and cutting energy costs for major employers — may partly hinge on state government’s willingness to offer loan guarantees for private-sector projects.
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TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Hurt with no end in sight
When his last, best hope for a normal, pain-free life told Thomas Yerrick that he will not get better, Yerrick did what, at the time, he thought was best. He swallowed a lot of pills and attempted suicide.
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Beverly, Alphonso Dixon
NORRIDGEWOCK — Alphonso “Buster” and Beverly Dixon of Norridgewock celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 20, 2011 with family and friends at the home of their son Al Dixon and girlfriend Zelma Gould. Also in attendance were Alphonso’s two brothers, Aaron Dixon and his wife Shannon of Waterville, James Dixon of Augusta, and his sister Karen Reay and Mark Mericer of Norridgewock, Beverly’s brother Wilson and his wife Sheila Fish of Union; as well as many nieces and nephews. The couple have several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, step-grandchildren and one step-great-grandchild. The person attending from the farthest away was Diane Ellis and her husband Peter from Portland.
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JASON SPOONER to perform at Slates
1. HEAT RISES. Richard Castle. Hyperion, $25.99
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Fern and David Bouchard
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — David and Fern Bouchard of Pittsfield, Mass., formerly of Augusta, Maine, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Sept. 4, 2011.
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Clinton, Fairfield differ on how to fix crossings
CLINTON — What does it take to get Pan Am Railways to fix a crumbling, pot-hole-ridden railroad crossing in central Maine?
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ANNIE: Family responsibilities cause couple to drift from old friends
Dear Annie: My husband and I have been friends with “Ed and Bonnie” for many years. We were in each other’s weddings, our kids are the same age, we have taken vacations together, and on and on.