Council hires manager for interim work
FAIRFIELD -- A retired Pittsfield town manager will fill in as the Fairfield town manager until councilors hire a replacement for Paul Blanchette, who died unexpectedly on Saturday.
The Town Council held a special meeting Monday morning to hire Dwight Dogherty, who will begin working today.
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Kalish, Ortiz help Sox rough up Rays
BOSTON (AP) — Ryan Kalish hit a grand slam, David Ortiz had a two-run shot and Jon Lester pitched six solid innings to lead the Boston Red Sox over Tampa Bay 12-5 Monday night, preventing the Rays from climbing closer in the AL East race.
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GORDON L. WEIL: Talking about doing good or just doing good: a tale of two rallies
Two big crowd events took place last Saturday.
One was Glenn Beck’s “Restore Honor” rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, and the other was the American Folk Festival in Bangor.
There were hundreds of thousands in Washington and tens of thousands in Bangor.
Beck issued a call for America to recapture what was “good” in American history. The Folk Festival exemplified what is good in America today...
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Skowhegan Main Street earns recognition
SKOWHEGAN — The Maine Office of Community Development recently named Skowhegan as recipient of the Community Spirit Award for its work with Main Street Skowhegan.
Each August the Maine CDBG Program holds Community Development Day to celebrate the communities and projects the organization worked with.
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Week 2 winners announced
Photo contest winners for week 2 are available. It's time to vote for your favorite entries in our weekly photo contest. Winners will be published on Monday, September13th. You also can enter photos now for Week Three of the contest now.
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Maine avg. gas price up slightly to $2.67
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Boothbay's Bigelow Laboratory groundbreaking on new campus
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Schools caught in 'perfect storm'
Tight budgets, looming cuts in state aid and declining student enrollment.
UMaine official taking Arkansas post
John Diamond has been named associate vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Arkansas.
Obama attacks GOP, touts new jobs initiative
MILWAUKEE -- A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.
Maine avg. gas price up slightly to $2.67
Petroleum analyst Patrick DeHaan says that there will be significant pressure for prices to fall.
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King foundation awards library $50,000
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Kalish, Ortiz help Sox rough up Rays
BOSTON (AP) — Ryan Kalish hit a grand slam, David Ortiz had a two-run shot and Jon Lester pitched six solid innings to lead the Boston Red Sox over Tampa Bay 12-5 Monday night, pre ...
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FOALING AROUND: Mountain View Arabians gain worldwide recognition
MADISON -- Laurie Emery washed clean one of her Arabian yearling colts in the morning recently, but a few hours later he was covered in mud from playing with his water bowl.
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Bonnefond leaves legacy of success at Kents Hill
KENTS HILL -- When George "Rist" Bonnefond arrived at Kents Hill School in 1990 as the newly anointed headmaster, the private high school on Route 17 enrolled 120 students, down fr ...
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Portland chief wants tougher
penalties for cocaine crime
Police Chief James Craig's idea gets a mixed reaction from lawmakers because of prison overcrowding.
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Church rebuffs military concerns on Quran burning
A Florida church is rebuffing warnings by the U.S. military's top official in Afghanistan to cancel a scheduled Sept. 11 burning of the Muslim holy book. Pastor Terry Jones told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he agrees his plan to burn the Quran could provoke violent opposition. However, Jones says America should quit ...
The State v. Daniel Fortune
Daniel L. Fortune, 22, of Augusta, is one of two men accused of invading the home of the Guerrette family in May 2008 and maiming a father and his daughter in a machete attack.
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