HOULTON, Maine — A proposal that, if passed, would have the Penobscot Regional Communications Center or another such entity answer E-911 calls originating from The County is still being considered by county officials, Aroostook County Administrator Doug Beaulieu said Tuesday.
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LEE, Maine — The state medical examiner’s office was working Tuesday to determine how and why a Lee woman who owned a Lincoln drug counseling center died last weekend.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — After praising the work of the Joint Use Planning Committee to come up with a proposal for the use of Sears Island that balanced industrial and environmental concerns, the Legislature’s Transportation Committee on Tuesday delayed signing off on the agreement.
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MILLINOCKET, Maine — Brookfield Asset Management's $1.5 million winterization effort and its assessment of the Katahdin Avenue paper mill's capacity for a biomass boiler are going well, but company officials said Tuesday they don’t know whether the mill will reopen next year or in 2010.
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BANGOR, Maine — The jury is expected to begin deliberations today in the federal trial of a former Indian Township Passamaquoddy tribal governor and the tribe’s ex-business manager accused of …
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BANGOR, Maine — Though personnel at Bureau of Motor Vehicles offices around the state were prepared for problems Monday, virtually none arose, a spokesman for the Secretary of State’s Office said.
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It has been two years since Mars Hill started receiving 20 years of $500,000 in annual payments from a tax increment financing deal connected to First Wind of Massachusetts’ 28-turbine wind farm, …
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LINCOLN, Maine — Planning board members approved a $500,000 office building connected to a proposed $130 million wind farm, but decided late Monday they needed another meeting to review the turbines.
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BANGOR, Maine — Two Orrington men were arrested Saturday after they reportedly forced their way inside a Bangor apartment, demanded money at gunpoint and assaulted three people.
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HAMPDEN, Maine — Dustin Ramsay was in third grade when a magazine in the library caught his attention.
The magazine’s cover depicted planet Earth in an obvious state of sickness. Later that night, Ramsay looked up the article online and read about sea-level rise, a warming atmosphere and other effects of climate change.
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LINCOLN, Maine — The planning board begins its review tonight of a proposed $130 million wind farm that, if approved, would deposit about 40 mammoth windmills on Rollins Mountain in four towns.
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State education officials on Friday received a proposal to consolidate the school administration of more than 20 northern Penobscot County towns into one regional school unit serving 2,031 students. State officials will begin their review of the plan over the next few weeks.
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ORONO, Maine — Dennis Carey worked his way through college waiting tables at Pat’s Pizza and, sometimes, ironing shirts for his fraternity brothers at 10 cents apiece.
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BUCKSPORT, Maine — As murky fog off Penobscot Bay gradually engulfed Carmichael Field late Saturday afternoon, one thing couldn’t have been clearer for the John Bapst of Bangor football team.
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Twenty years ago today, in a quiet backyard in Hermon, a hunter fired two shots that still reverberate in the minds of Mainers. A young mother of twin girls, Karen Wood, lay dead. Game wardens arrested Bangor hunter Donald Rogerson.
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BANGOR, Maine — A small group of disgruntled mail processors picketed outside the United States post office on Friday in response to recent changes that have resulted in less work for postal employees in eastern Maine.
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LEE, Maine — Lee Academy officials are poised to help create three satellite campuses on mainland China and South Korea which, added to four Chinese Lee schools due to be built next year, would allow as many as 5,000 Asian students to learn Lee’s American curriculum by 2015, officials said Thursday.
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