David Marshall plans to introduce a council order to allow state-licensed dispensaries in the downtown business zones.

Past efforts to reduce teen smoking in Maine appeared to help, but the trend recently reversed.

The outage happened around 8 a.m. at the Ogunquit substation on Route 1 when a squirrel got into the equipment and grounded out the transformer.

However, it plans to add about 40 positions in its care centers over the next six to eight months.

The overall reduction amounts to about 2 percent of Mercy’s 1,657 employees.

The Maine Congresswoman says her bill would require BP to pay for all the oil that comes out of the damaged well regardless of a negligence finding.

The coalition is urging Maine’s U.S. senators to restore supplemental Medicaid funding to help the elderly and disabled.

A spokesman for OTT Communications says the two-and-a-half hour disruption was unrelated to one that took place last Tuesday.