In recent years, Maine’s work to combat PFAS has been marked by learning, listening, collaborating and acting decisively. We’ve led the nation in tackling this threat to public health and agriculture. For me, this work began when I heard the heartbreaking story of Fred and Laura Stone of Stoneridge Farm right in my hometown of […]
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Passamaquoddy Tribe wants to install hundreds of rooftop solar panels. Maine utility says it’s not allowed.
Regulators’ decision could also affect people in retirement communities and mobile home cooperatives who band together to fund solar projects.
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Girl, 8, hit and killed by ambulance in Van Buren
Emma Cormier was attempting to cross Main Street when she was hit Wednesday afternoon, police say.
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Affordable housing, brewery project underway at old Brunswick fire station
Construction has started on a project to convert the 1919 building into a brewery and five affordable housing units.
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After rejection and revision, Gray-New Gloucester voters pass school budget
The revised proposal passed by a wide margin after the original iteration was rejected by 19 votes.
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Italian stonecutters in Hallowell carved a legacy of industry and labor from granite
‘Working Granite: Italian Stonecutters and their Union’ at the Maine Historical Society highlights one of Maine’s earliest labor unions, started by stone workers in 1877.
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Large emergency veterinary hospital opening in Falmouth next year
Portland Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Care will move into the 42,000-square-foot, 24/7 hospital that is currently under construction on Route 1 near the Falmouth spur.
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Lewiston condemns Church of Safe Injection building on Main Street
Police and code enforcement found thousands of used needles, fecal matter and evidence that people had been sleeping in the basement.
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Scarborough firefighters avoid traps while containing brush fire
Someone saw smoke and firefighters on their game cameras and called to warn about traps they had set to protect their belongings.
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Company that provides Medicaid transportation in Maine files for bankruptcy
Denver-based Modivcare filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Aug. 20. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services said it is ‘monitoring the situation closely.’
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