AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s Gambling Control Board is expected to give its approval to a new course at Eastern Maine Community College for table game dealers ahead of the arrival of black jack and poker games at two casinos. Hollywood Slots casino in Bangor plans to add 14 table games in the spring, including poker, […]

CONCORD, N. H. ( AP) — Registered snowmobilers in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine will be able to roam trails in all three states during the last weekend in January. Any snowmobile legally registered in one of the participating states will be allowed on trails in all three during the Jan. 27-29 weekend. All other […]

MILLINOCKET ( AP) — Die-hard campers are showing up at Baxter State Park headquarters to get first dibs on reservations for the 2012 camping season. Today marks the first day campers can make reservations for the May 15 to Oct. 15 camping season, but they have to show up in person at the park’s Millinocket […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — Facebook is coming to Maine’s capital city to teach owners of small businesses how to increase their traffic and sales by using the social medium. Facebook will be at the Augusta Civic Center today at U. S. Sen. Olympia Snowe’s invitation. The Maine Republican will also deliver remarks at the “Small […]

BANGOR (AP) — The finalists for the top job over Maine’s seven universities are making campus visits this week. The University of Maine System last month announced the finalists to replace Chancellor Richard Pattenaude, who is retiring. The finalists are Meredith Hay, a special adviser to the chair of the Arizona Board of Regents for […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — The Maine Jewish Film Festival has announced some of the highlighted films that will be showing this year. This year’s festival, now in its 15th year, will be held from March 17-22 with a lineup of American and foreign films. Among the highlighted films are “ Between Two Worlds,” a 2011 […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Northern New Englanders awoke to bone-chilling temperatures Monday with the mercury falling to well below zero across much of the region. The National Weather Service said some of the cold spots in Maine at 6 a.m. were Fryeburg, which was minus 20, and Sanford, where the temperature was 13 below zero. In […]

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Under pressure, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he might be willing to release his tax returns. But not until April, if then, and the multimillionaire former businessman is not getting much gratitude from his rivals for his grudging change of heart. “If there’s nothing there, why is he waiting […]

FREEPORT — Freeport Community Library will host “Solar for the Homeowner,” a free presentation by ReVision Energy, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at 10 Library Drive. The program will cover how solar hot water and solar electric energy systems work. “You’ll learn the answers to questions like: How much will a system cost? Is […]

FREEPORT — January’s Freeport Chamber Breakfast Forum is titled “ Creating Customer Loyalty” with Jeanne Carpenter, Emerald Hospitality Group’s regional director of sales. Carpenter has 25 years experience in the Hilton Hotel family and will “share tips for developing your customers into your biggest fans.” The forum will run from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. […]