NEW GLOUCESTER – While lying in a hospice bed last week, Arthur E. Waitley offered some life advice to a friend. “Love one another,” said Waitley, a Yarmouth pastor from New Gloucester who was diagnosed with cancer about five years ago. “Because if you love one another, everything else will just fall into place.” His […]

A fire department boat rescued two kayakers who overturned in the water this evening off Seapoint Beach in Kittery, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Coast Guard Sector Northern New England Chief Rob Childress said Kittery police requested assistance from the Coast Guard shortly after the incident, which happened about 6 pm. The Coast Guard […]

He says he must attend to budgeting challenges here in Maine instead of visiting Chile and Brazil.

And CMP reports that 15,780 customers, including 7,290 in Cumberland County, remain without electricity.

PORTLAND – The impact of Tropical Storm Irene continued to be felt Wednesday, when flooding caused by Sunday’s rain knocked out a fiber-optic cable in Vermont and cut Internet and digital phone service for almost four hours to about 350,000 customers of Time Warner Cable in New England. The company’s network crashed about 2:30 p.m. […]

The Greater Portland Economic Development Corporation will use the grant to hire an executive director, buy marketing materials and fund general business development activities.

Time Warner blames a “fiber break in one of the hardest hit areas of the storm.”