CHINA — Selectmen tonight will hear a pitch for the biomass boiler that Regional School Unit 18 officials hope will heat Messalonskee High School and Williams Elementary School in Oakland.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: World finally reacting to famine in Africa
The world, locked in financial crisis, seems to have shrugged off the drought and famine gripping much of the Horn of Africa. Winter rain failed in Somalia, alerting aid agencies as early as last November that the country faced famine.
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Standoff ends with Madison man’s arrest
MADISON — Police waited close to two hours Saturday night in a standoff with a man who refused to leave his downtown home after he allegedly assaulted his wife.
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LOCAL AUTO RACING: St. Clair takes checkered at Unity
UNITY — Despite a couple of months away from Unity Raceway, Liberty’s Josh St. Clair showed no signs of rust, taking a victory in Saturday’s 35-lap Late Model feature race.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Evidence of Dechaine’s guilt in trial record
William Bunting’s letter (Aug. 8) contains two erroneous claims regarding Dennis Dechaine’s conviction that I want to try to correct. First, Bunting writes that, “The only significant evidence that remains in the state’s case is that someone removed incriminating objects from Dechaine’s truck.” The state never contended any such thing. The state proved Dechaine murdered […]
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Owner of weeklies wins national newspaper award
PORTLAND — Alan L. Baker thinks hyper-local coverage has allowed his weekly community newspapers to thrive in a tumultuous industry.
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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: Portland rallies to win
PORTLAND — The Portland Sea Dogs scored four runs in the seventh inning to defeat the Erie SeaWolves 9-5 in an Eastern League baseball game Sunday at Hadlock Field.
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Proper siting of turbines would solve other problems
Vinita Burns’s Aug. 1 letter contains an obvious contradiction. She criticizes reasons for opposition to wind development — “costs, noise, place, nature disturbance,” calling them “excuses.” Then, the last sentence of the letter states that proper siting is essential. Land-based wind development in Maine is plagued by problems with all those things cited by Burns, […]
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People who don’t do their jobs should be fired
“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” Once again, those whom we have elected (or failed to un-elect) and sent to local, state, or federal government to do the people’s business, have ignored doing what is good for the country. They are interested only in doing what is good for […]
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MAINE COMPASS: Freedom of Information Coalition celebrates 10 years of advocacy
It is your government, and you have a right to know how it is operating and how it is spending your tax dollars. Not everyone in government, however, agrees.