Opponents seek to exploit the shifting political and financial climate to hobble the developer of Maine’s next wind farm

Five people are arrested after about three dozen block construction vehicles Monday.

Five people were arrested this morning after they refused to stop blocking construction vehicles at the Rollins wind energy project here.

The arrests came as roughly three dozen protesters gathered at the entrance to the project site, shortly before 8 a.m. The action was part of a rally planned by citizen groups opposed to the project on Rollins Mountain, as well as other large-scale wind energy proposals around the state.

Many Mainers remember the infamous Sonny Liston-Cassius Clay heavyweight championship match, held in 1965, in Lewiston. They know Clay, later Muhammad Ali, knocked out Liston in the first round in what came to be called “the phantom punch.” Fewer people remember Liston’s physician, Dr. Raphael Turgeon of Westbrook, who was Portland’s boxing commissioner for many […]

SCARBOROUGH – People — desperate, hurting people — were waiting in line at the Dunstan Dental Center early Friday. By late afternoon, a team of dentists, oral surgeons and hygienists had treated 120 patients who needed dental care but couldn’t afford it.

For a second year, members of the Greater Portland Dental Society offered their services free of charge. Organizers say they plan to make Dentists Who Care for ME an annual event in November. Over time, they hope to expand it statewide.

The national debate over health care and health insurance has largely ignored the plight of dental care, organizers say, although many people with dental emergencies end up in the hospital emergency room. When money is tight and people are out of work, dental care often is ignored until it becomes an emergency.