Meanwhile, more than two dozen Mainers are helping to battle the blazes in the Pacific Northwest.
Beth Quimby
Beth Quimby reports on Maine on the weekends, when most Mainers are off the job and anything can happen. She worked for newspapers since she was in high school when she started out on her father’s New Hampshire newspaper. She is a graduate of Colby College and a recipient of national, regional and state journalism awards. When she is not working, she tries hard to follow her bliss.
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Yarmouth explosion still rattling lives 13 months later
People who lost their homes are still displaced and scarred emotionally, but realize they had an ‘incredible escape.’
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Traffic briefly halted on Interstate 295
A car fire triggered the 20-minute shutdown in the northbound lanes.
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A family searches for patriarch’s burial site
Descendants of Col. Ezekiel Cushing, a prominent 18th-century Maine merchant, go looking for his remains in South Portland’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
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Search called off for man wanted in connection with robbery, domestic violence
Jessy Kehling, 27, was last seen shirtless and barefoot in Standish.
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FairPoint employees give union leaders authorization to strike
The vote does not mean that union members will actually strike.
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Aircraft group holds fly-in in Cape Elizabeth as it mourns one of its own
Meanwhile, federal investigators arrive to begin their probe into the Limington crash that killed Clarke Tate, 52, of Gray.
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Saco woman, victim of June 21 hit-and-run, dies
Jewell Friedman, 87, passed away Saturday morning at Maine Medical Center, where she was being treated for injuries suffered when she was hit by a pickup truck.
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Body found in Sanford river
The male body was removed from the Mousam River.
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Man arrested after standoff on Brunswick bridge
Police said Eric Wallace, 27, eluded police for more than two hours on the Frank Woods Bridge.