PORTLAND — The Maine Medical Center Cancer Institute, Southern Maine Health Care, Mercy Oncology Hematology Center, Cancer Care Center of York County and the American Cancer Society will be holding free cancer screenings for uninsured and under-insured patients throughout May. Screenings for skin cancer only will be held May 13 at Mercy Oncology-Hematology Center, Fore […]
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Tours of Nova Star to be offered Saturday
PORTLAND — The Nova Star ferry will be open for free tours from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 10. The tours are scheduled five days before daily trips to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, begin, and a day before the 528-foot ferry heads to Boston for its christening. The ship has three restaurants, a casino, children’s play […]
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4 sworn in as Cumberland County Civic Center trustees
PORTLAND — Four area residents were sworn in as Cumberland County Civic Center trustees on Friday, May 2. Neal Pratt, of Scarborough; Gary Plummer, of Windham, and David Maroon of Gorham were appointed to new three-year terms by Cumberland County Commissioners. Andrew Braceras, of Portland, will fulfill the two years left on the term of […]
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Small-wheelers take over Portland boulevard
Kendra Danse, of Portland, roller skates with dog Blou during the first “Sundays on the Boulevard” – a weekly event during which Baxter Boulevard is closed to vehicle traffic between Vannah Avenue and Payson Park from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. each Sunday until early November. Blou’s owner, Hallie Fairchild, skates in the background.
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Natural gas leak forces evacuations in Portland's Bayside neighborhood
PORTLAND — An aging pipe was blamed for a natural gas leak in Bayside on Monday morning that caused the evacuation of four buildings. The leak was called in by a passerby who detected a strong smell of natural gas near the intersection of Kennebec Street, Forest Avenue and Marginal Way, Deputy Fire Chief David Jackson […]
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Augusta auto dealer fire causes estimated $100,000 in damage
The early Sunday blaze in a service garage bay at Darling’s Chrysler Dodge is thought to be accidental.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Mitchell Field building in Harpswell to be demolished
HARPSWELL — The town is moving forward with plans to demolish an unused maintenance building at Mitchell Field. The 1,770-square-foot, cinder-block building is one of several remaining in the park, remnants of its past as a U.S. Navy fuel depot. At their May 1 meeting, the Board of Selectmen unanimously approved a bid request form for […]
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Mother gets 2 years for breaking Brunswick baby's bones
BRUNSWICK — A former Brunswick woman charged with breaking several of her infant daughter’s bones has been sentenced to two years in prison. Shelagh Kavin, 23, most recently of Boothbay Harbor, was indicted by a Cumberland County grand jury in March 2013 for aggravated assault, a Class B felony. On March 24, she pleaded guilty to […]
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Arrest made in Brunswick-centered heroin network
BRUNSWICK — A Boston man was arrested April 30 and charged in connection with a heroin trafficking network police say was transporting weekly shipments of the drug for distribution in Brunswick and the southern Sagadahoc County area. The arrest resulted from a month-long investigation led by agents from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Mid-Coast and Cumberland District […]
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Natural gas provider launches expansion of service to Cumberland, Falmouth, Yarmouth
CUMBERLAND — Shovels plunged into the dirt Friday, May 2, and pipes will soon be going into the ground in Cumberland, Falmouth and Yarmouth, as natural gas service is expanded to the three communities. Summit Natural Gas announced at a groundbreaking ceremony at the Cumberland Fairgrounds that it has hired with Shaw Brothers of Gorham and […]