AUGUSTA — Borrowing the money to build new regional hospital is quite unlike borrowing the money to buy a home.
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MORNING SENTINEL BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Nokomis’ Braley makes major impact
On one hand, Chris Braley knows what waits for him if he returns to Nokomis Regional High School next year. A chance to help the Warriors continue to improve on this past season, when they earned the team’s first winning record in almost a decade.
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Milk truck collision closes Interstate 95
WATERVILLE — A dramatic early-morning collision of a tractor-trailer milk tanker and a sport utility vehicle shut down part of Interstate 95’s southbound lanes for about five hours Saturday, with the overturned tanker stretched across the roadway.
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OUR OPINION: Question about gambling now not ‘if’ but ‘where’
When the question was whether Maine should expand slot machine gambling, we said no.
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RICHARD CONNOR: Star athletes can forget that reality brings accountability
When athletes become stars they enter a galaxy where any light except that which shines on them is eclipsed. They are fawned over and coddled and pampered. Along the way, they can lose touch with reality.
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Farmington OKs police station renovations
FARMINGTON — Residents overwhelmingly approved a $490,000 renovation of the building that will become the town’s new police station.
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MORNING SENTINEL BOYS BASKETBALL COACH OF THE YEAR: Wood, Winslow continue to improve
The 2009-10 season was a good one for the Winslow High School boys basketball team. The Black Raiders won 12 games and reached the preliminary round of the Eastern Class B tournament.
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OUR OPINION: Inspiring others to work hard tougher than doing it yourself
When Cindy Blodgett had the ball in her hands she could will her team to success.
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MIKE TIPPING: Neither side of the aisle taking advantage of new roles in Augusta
When Maine voters delivered a thumping to Democrats in the gubernatorial and legislative races last year, they relieved them of many of the responsibilities of governing, both in actuality and in a figurative sense, and placed those responsibilities squarely upon Gov. Paul LePage and his new Republican majorities.
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Two arrested in waterville drug bust
WATERVILLE — Two men were arrested early Saturday after police searched their Autumn Street apartment and seized marijuana and narcotics, according to Sgt. Alan Main.