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WABI
March 22, 2018
WELLS, Maine- Village Candle, a Maine company, is celebrating a new deal that will bring its products to Europe. The Wells-based company is partnering with Eimskip. Village Candles can already be found in 32 countries and is now reaching out to the United Kingdom and northern Europe. Jeanne HulitÃâà...
Undercurrent News
March 22, 2018
Nordic Aquafarms' plans to invest $500 million in the US town of Maine to build a major land-based salmon farm are taking a step forward with a proposal to alter the town's zoning rules, The Free Press reported. The company plans to acquire 40 acres near thee Little River in the town. Town councilÃâà...
wnbf.com
March 22, 2018
Officials are looking into the cause of a late afternoon fire in the Town of Maine that heavily damaged a home March 21. No serious injuries are reported and authorities say a woman and her two dogs were able to make it out of the house on Shadowbrook Drive. The fire was reported shortly before 4:30 andÃâà...
Press & Sun-Bulletin
March 22, 2018
A two-alarm fire brought crews to a one-family residence in the Town of Maine Wednesday. Area fire ... Emergency personnel called to the scene include those from Maine, West Corners, Union Center and Glen Aubrey fire departments, along with Broome County Sheriff's deputies. This report will beÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
March 22, 2018
The Federal Aviation Administration and the state of Maine will contribute to the cost of a new building to house snow and other equipment used at Sanford Seacoast Regional Airport. The remainder of the cost of the building is expected to come from revenue generated by a 50-megawatt solar projectÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
March 21, 2018
The Wiscasset Board of Selectmen voted Thursday, March 15, to place the question on the town meeting warrant. At Tuesday's selectmen's meeting, Wiscasset police Chief Jeffrey Lange expressed displeasure with the selectmen's decision. Lange was not present at Thursday's meeting. During theÃâà...
WBNG-TV
March 21, 2018
TOWN OF MAINE (WBNG) -- Officials on the scene said no one was injured but one woman had smoke inhalation and was treated on scene. While no cause has been determined yet, 12 News observed the back left portion of the home extremely burnt.
Bangor Daily News
March 21, 2018
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — A petition to roll back regulations restricting short-term rentals through services like Airbnb has forced a Maine city to reconsider the rules. Petitioners in South Portland gathered more than 1,000 signatures in opposition to a new requirement that owners live in their rentalÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
March 19, 2018
Jody Murphy allegedly stole the money by taking funds from municipal bank deposits, town transfer funds and by adding unauthorized stipends to her own paychecks, said detective Steve McFarland of the Hancock County Sheriff's Office. McFarland declined to speculate on why Murphy allegedly stole theÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 19, 2018
Many Maine cities are spending more than expected to keep roads clear of snow and ice this winter, and another nor'easter could send them even further over budget. ... A city spokeswoman tells the Portland Press Herald the city expected 60 inches of snow this year, but has already gotten nearly 90.
KPRC Click2Houston
March 8, 2018
(CNN) - The powerful storm that battered the Northeast over the weekend also uncovered the wreckage of a ship that could date back to the Revolutionary War. The wreckage was found on a beach in York, Maine. The police department in the southern Maine city posted photos of the ship on its FacebookÃâà...
Press Herald
March 8, 2018
Cancellations and parking bans began to pile up Wednesday night as a late-winter storm moved into Maine amid predictions it would dump more than a foot of ... The city reminded residents that all residential property owners are required within 24 hours after the snow stops falling to remove snow fromÃâà...
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
March 8, 2018
AUGUSTA — In the hours before a nor'easter was expected to bring about a foot of snow to central Maine, public safety and utilities officials were ... Officials across the region pushed out announcements Wednesday about town office closures expected Thursday, including Skowhegan and Pittston.
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
March 8, 2018
Cancellations and parking bans began to pile up Wednesday night as a late-winter storm moved into Maine amid predictions it would dump more than a ... later in the day, the nor'easter did produce thundershow, with flashes of lightning and booming thunder from the Philadelphia area to New York City.
CBS News
March 8, 2018
Nor'easter clobbers Northeast delivering heavy snow, rain, wind from Pennsylvania to Maine .... The National Weather Service said that as of 9 p.m., the snow had ended across the lower Hudson Valley, New York City and New Jersey. Heavy snow .... Rob Reardon told Morgan while driving through town.
Bangor Daily News
March 8, 2018
For more than a century, Maine has offered its own version of “school choice” called “town tuitioning.” If a student lives in a district without a public school at a certain grade level, the town and district will pay a specific rate to send that student to the public or private school of their choice. In one Maine town,Ãâà...
NECN
March 8, 2018
Kennebunk, Maine, is still recovering from Friday's nor'easter and is now bracing for another. The area could receive more than a foot of snow by Thursday night. "It's just going to add insult to injury," said resident Tami York, taking in the damage on Beach Avenue on Wednesday. The impact is evident,Ãâà...
NBCNews.com
March 5, 2018
By noon, about 244,000 people in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut and Maine remained without electricity due to last week's storm, according to each state's respective power companies. Earlier in the day, that number was about 424,000 residents.
Boothbay Register
March 5, 2018
Unlike BRTV, Lifeflight of Maine Foundation did not receive a financial contribution last year from the town. Lifeflight of Maine Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that provides fundraising and public relations support to LifeFlight of Maine. The foundation raises funds for aircraft, medicalÃâà...
Press Herald
March 5, 2018
Coastal flooding dogged southern Maine for a third day Sunday as astronomically high tides and the remnants of a powerful nor'easter that knocked out ... The town of Wells also got more flooding at Sunday's 12:45 p.m. high tide, but two hours later crews were beginning to reopen roads shut down by theÃâà...
Press Herald
March 5, 2018
Under the tax bill, Maine can designate up to 25 percent of its low-income Census tracts – areas between 2,500 and 8,000 residents – as opportunity zones, which works out to 31 tracts statewide. Possible areas include regions rocked by the declining pulp and paper industry, former mill communities andÃâà...
Hot Springs Village Voice
March 5, 2018
YORK, Maine — Visitors are frequenting Short Sands Beach to see a rarely surfaced shipwreck as officials deal with the serious business of damage ... Police Chief Douglas Bracy, the town's emergency management director, said coastal communities had been expecting a diminution of wave activityÃâà...
Press Herald
March 5, 2018
Towns in coastal York County are cleaning up and assessing damage after surging high tides and powerful waves pounded the coast for three days. ... In Maine, the storm surge flooded low lying coastal areas in York and Cumberland counties, damaging roads and barriers, as well as some homes andÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
February 27, 2018
BATH, Maine — A Maine city is slated to receive nearly $9 million in federal money for sorely needed upgrades to its sewer system. The city is Bath is getting a $2.3 million grant and a $6.5 million low interest loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The city's sewer department serves more than 3,000Ãâà...
The Boston Globe
February 14, 2018
The Great Northern Paper Company — for a century the full-employment guarantor for generations of paper-makers who once made this town hum — built ... In fact, the company, which sprang up like Brigadoon at the dawn of the 20th century, helped build almost everything here in “Magic City,'' a placeÃâà...
NECN
February 8, 2018
Short-term rentals may be short-lived in South Portland, Maine, where city councilors are considering new, strict guidelines for rentals through websites like Airbnb. The new rules would only allow hosts to rent properties on these websites when the owner is staying on the property at the same time as theÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
December 31, 1999
BATH, Maine — A Maine city is slated to receive nearly $9 million in federal money for sorely needed upgrades to its sewer system. The city is Bath is getting a $2.3 million grant and a $6.5 million low interest loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The city's sewer department serves more than 3,000Ãâà...
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