BRUNSWICK — Indulging in both a creamy gelato from Brunswick’s Gelato Fiasco and a powdery Frosty’s doughnut on Tuesday, Romeo Bartley, 12, is not letting one second of his week in Maine go to waste. Bartley, who lives in the Bronx, is visiting Durham for the third summer in a row, staying with the Smith […]
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Brunswick councilors to decide how to spend additional funding from state next month
BRUNSWICK — Town councilors are trying to decide how to use an additional $350,000 from the state — to offset property taxes, improve the town’s roads, both or neither. In the budget, councilors planned for $1.45 million from state revenue sharing (sales tax money the state distributes to communities as property tax relief), but after […]
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Maine briefs: Mother to seek dismissal of murder charge; Pest-killing wasps to come to the aid of Maine forests
Attorney: Mother to seek dismissal of murder charge BELFAST, Maine (AP) — An attorney for the mother of a 10-year-old girl killed in February 2018 says he will ask the state to dismiss murder charges against her, if the girl’s stepfather pleads guilty. In response, the attorney for the 52-year-old stepfather, Julio Carrillo, calls that move a […]
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Out-of-state money pours into Maine Senate race
PORTLAND — Hundreds of thousands of dollars have flowed into Maine’s Senate race this spring from out-of-state donors as Democrats and Republicans are poised to spend heavily in the race to oust GOP Sen. Susan Collins. In the last quarter, Collins reported bringing in $1.2 million from individuals, with just $100,000 coming from Mainers giving […]
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Measure in U.S. House seeks answers to whether military created Lyme disease
There are some who say the U.S. military created and spread Lyme disease across the land. It sounds like one of those conspiracy theories that crop up about most every significant national event, from the supposedly faked moon landing to the inane chatter that airliners crashing into them couldn’t have brought down the World Trade […]
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Regulators hear CMP customers’ complaints about soaring bills and ‘horrific’ service
State regulators got an earful Tuesday night from consumers who vented their frustration and anger with Central Maine Power Co. over its billing and customer service practices. CMP customers told the Maine Public Utilities Commission that their bills doubled or tripled after a new billing system was installed more than 18 months ago and they […]
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Jury to deliberate fate of Lewiston man charged with killing woman in front of her sons
AUBURN — A medical expert testified Tuesday that two of the stab wounds that killed the alleged victim of local murder defendant Albert Flick penetrated her heart and lung. Prosecutors rested their case against Flick, 77, shortly before noon after Dr. Lisa Funte, Maine’s deputy chief medical examiner, told an Androscoggin County Superior Court jury that […]
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Nearly 100 crashes in five years on 2-mile stretch of Route 1 in Woolwich
WOOLWICH — Nearly 100 collisions have occurred on a stretch of Route 1 in Woolwich in the past five years, two with deadly results. Now, after a recent crash left one local man critically injured, a local lawmaker is raising an alarm, even though the state considers that stretch of Route 1 to be relatively […]
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Learn about raised bed gardening in Bath
On Saturday, July 27 at 10 a.m., Kennebec Estuary Land Trust invites the public to try their hand at raised bed gardening. Laurie Burhoe will teach participants to build a raised bed and will demonstrate how to construct bed frames and fill with soil. This program is best for gardeners 12 years old and up. There is a $5 suggested donation to […]
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Bath children’s librarian has big plans for retirement
BATH — Carol McFadden glanced at the Kermit the Frog puppet on her desk June 26 as she finished packing up 12 years of memories at Patten Free Library. “He’s been in many story times; I like to get into the characters,” the children’s librarian said of the toy, which had belonged to her now-grown […]