Deadly storms ravaged counties in middle Tennessee this week, including in Nashville.
March 2020
Posted inNation & World
Congress sends Trump a plan to spend $8.3 billion to fight virus
The bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations committees negotiated the increased figure and other provisions of the legislation in a burst of cooperation that’s common on the panel but increasingly rare elsewhere in Washington.
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Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
Going green, Kennebunk Fire Chief chooses Tesla
The new electric sedan is expected to arrive in five weeks.
Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
Sheriff’s office launches Dunkin’ with a Deputy
York County Sheriff’s Office deputies will be chatting with folks on Tuesday, March 10.
Posted inTimes Record
BIW begins work on latest destroyer
The ship is named for Louis H. Wilson Jr., a US Marine Corps captain who earned the Medal of Honor for his heroics at the Battle of Guam in 1944.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Colby College receives $16 million gift for financial aid, the arts, health and wellness
The gift from college trustee Marieke Rothschild and her husband, Jeff Rothschild, will support three of the college’s highest priorities — financial aid, the arts and health and wellness.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Schumer: I ‘shouldn’t have used the words I did’ about 2 justices
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he was referring to political consequences, not physical threats, when he said 2 Supreme Court justices would ‘pay the price’ for their decisions on an abortion case now before the court.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Economic impact of coronavirus cuts into Wex revenue projections
The Portland-based company expects earnings to be down at least 2% for the first three months of this year.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State
Girl injured in Waterville drive-by shooting leaves hospital
Emahleeah Frost, 7, headed back to Waterville after spending nearly a week at Maine Medical Center in Portland, where she was treated after being struck by a bullet in her home by a drive-by shooter.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
About a dozen Mainers are being tested for coronavirus, says Maine CDC
The agency says it has submitted about a dozen samples to federal testing labs and has obtained the equipment and test kits needed to test 500 to 700 people, starting in about a week.