BRUNSWICK — The yearlong push to create a zoning ordinance for homeless shelters in Brunswick may soon draw to a close, but not before a new licensing ordinance regulating “performance standards” raises alarm bells for local shelter officials. A lengthy list of performance standards came before the town council Monday night, but will not be […]
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Provocative signs posted near Bates College campus
LEWISTON — Signs popped up around the Bates College campus Sunday reading “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE,” a slogan devised almost two decades ago by neo-Nazis. For some people, such signs are a trolling operation designed to stir up racial fears with a seemingly antiseptic assertion. The slogans have been posted at a number of […]
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Portland police continue investigation of deadly shooting
Police investigators returned to a house in Portland’s Riverton neighborhood Sunday, more than a day after a 22-year-old man was killed in a shooting there. Isahak Muse of Portland was shot during an altercation 1:45 a.m. Saturday at 107 Milton St., according to police. He was dead when police officers and paramedics arrived at the scene, Lt. […]
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Portland man charged with murder in local woman’s death
A Portland man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman whose body was discovered Sunday morning in the city, police said. Lt. Robert Martin identified the murder suspect as Gregory Vance, 61. The victim is a Portland resident, but police said they would not publicly identify her […]
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Child and man found dead in apparent homicide-suicide in Presque Isle
Maine State Police discovered the bodies of a child and a man inside a Presque Isle home Sunday morning in what authorities are characterizing as a domestic violence homicide-suicide. Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said Sunday evening that the child and the man, whose names and ages are not yet […]
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Westbrook native shot, killed in Arkansas while trying to stop armed robbery
A Westbrook native serving in the Air Force was shot and killed Friday night in Arkansas while trying to stop an armed robbery at a convenience store, authorities said. North Little Rock police said Shawn Mckeough Jr. was killed while trying to stop a robbery at a Valero Big Red convenience store and gas station. […]
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Pair of developers betting big on Brunswick
Two Maine real estate developers are taking a multimillion-dollar gamble on their ability to convince hundreds of Portland-area residents to buy or lease refurbished military housing units in Brunswick. Over the past two years, Chris Rhoades and Andrew Preston of Brunswick Landing Venture LLC have bought up 120 acres of former base housing and buildable […]
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Maine firefighters bid farewell to late Oxford fire chief
SOUTH PARIS — Gary Sacco was remembered Saturday as a wonderful chief, a straightforward and honest friend, and a quirky, dog-loving family man. The Oxford fire chief, 63, suffered a fatal medical event March 10 while in Portland for the funeral of Berwick Fire Capt. Joel Barnes, 32, who died fighting an apartment house fire […]
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Gallery: Freeport’s Wolfe’s Neck Center welcomes Spring
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Topsham selectmen nix board name change
TOPSHAM — Guided by a legal opinion from the Maine Municipal Association, the Board of Selectmen voted unanimously March 7 not to change its name. Raija Suomela of Middlesex Road in January had asked town officials to consider renaming the governing body to the more gender-neutral Selectboard. The board, which has two women and three […]