BRUNSWICK The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) has added three new local representatives to an advisory board that will review progress on a train layover facility project planned for a site bordered by Stanwood Street, Church Road, Turner Street and Bouchard Drive, according to a press release from the Brunswick West Neighborhood Coalition. […]

BATH As soon as next fall, Morse High School could host students from Asia — and add more than $10,000 in tuition for each student to the school district’s coffers. On Monday, Superintendent Patrick Manuel told the Regional School Unit 1 board of directors that he and Assistant Superintendent Wayne Dorr have explored applying to […]

BOISE, Idaho When lightning ignited a wildfire near Idaho’s Sun Valley in 2007, environmental regulators used monitoring gear to gauge the health effects for those breathing in the Sawtooth Mountains’ smoky, mile-high air. That equipment sits idle today after the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality was hit by $4 million in spending cuts, a quarter […]

Egyptians vote in first elections since ouster CAIRO (AP) — Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians turned out in long lines at voting stations Monday in their nation’s first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, a giant step toward what they hope will be a democracy after decades of dictatorship. The landmark election has […]

MANAMA, Bahrain Since the lifting two months ago of a longstanding U. S. ban on gays serving openly in the military, U.S. Marines across the globe have adapted smoothly and embraced the change, says their top officer, Gen. James F. Amos, who previously had argued against repealing the ban during wartime. “I’m very pleased with […]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The first operating U.S. nuclear plant to shut down because of an earthquake is back up to full power. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission website says both reactors at Dominion Virginia Power’s North Anna Power Station were at 100 percent as of today morning. The units automatically shut down after the 5.8-magnitude […]

CAMDEN ( AP) — A new census of land trusts says 10 million acres have been conserved nationwide since 2005, including nearly 2 million in Maine. The National Land Trust Census shows that the recession has not hurt voluntary land conservation, which increased 27 percent between 2005 and 2010. The report says a total of […]