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Thursday, April 12, 2018 3:35 PM
The Bureau of Highway Safety is providing more than $800,000 in funding to Maine law enforcement departments to enforce distracted driving laws as part of the national enforcement mobilization during April. Police will use crash data . . .
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Maine Public Utilities Commission has chosen Pennsylvania-based Liberty Consulting Group to examine the accuracy of Central Maine Power’s meters after hundreds of customers complained of inflated electric bills this past winter. . . .
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Rockland has become the latest Maine municipality to pass a local food sovereignty ordinance, which will exempt direct-to-consumer sales of food, with the exception of meat and poultry, from state and federal food safety regulations. . . .
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St. George residents approved expanding the existing town landing in Port Clyde in a close vote, 188-184, on Monday. A Monday-night recount confirmed the vote. The town purchased the former St. George Marine property . . .
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Wild salmon eat mostly wild fish, pink krill and plankton, but that’s not on the menu for the salmon that will be grown inside buildings at two new midcoast aquaculture facilities that are on the drawing board in Belfast and Bucksport. . . .
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Republi- can US Senate candidate Max Linn will appear on the June primary ballot, but votes for him will not be counted as the Maine Supreme Court officially disqualified him on Tuesday. The two-page Court decision, which backs . . .
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Local employers are scrambling to find enough workers to fill seasonal positions as summer approaches. The once reliable method of filling seasonal vacancies with guest workers from countries like Jamaica and Mexico has been . . .
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The ACLU of Maine filed a lawsuit last week in US District Court against the federal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the agencies’ refusal to release public records . . .
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The US Coast Guard has decided not to pursue a proposal to establish federal anchorage off Broad Cove in Owls Head to accommodate large cruise ships. In an email last week, Coast Guard Commander Andy Meyers notified . . .
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When I was growing up, it was always thrilling to shake the hands of Maine’s distinguished politicians, including Senators George Mitchell and Bill Cohen, at our local parades. But unfortunately, local children will no longer . . .
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“Why is it going to be so big?” I asked Erik Heim, the man who wants to build one of the largest indoor fish farms in the world on the outskirts of Belfast. It is a massive project that will produce 66 million pounds of Atlantic salmon a year . . .
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The new Maine State Ferry rates announced by the Maine Ferry Service and the Maine Department of Transportation (DOT) last week are favorable for most islands. Islesboro is the exception. The fare change, which will go into effect . . .
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The expansive view of the fields sloping down to the Little River from Mike and Margie Shannon’s place outside of Belfast looks as isolated and contemplative as a scene in an Andrew Wyeth painting. That’s a little deceptive. . . .
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In 2010, Rockland churchgoer Richard Cadwgan offered to build simple window inserts and donate them to put in the drafty aluminum windows in the Unitarian church to keep it warmer. Cadwgan learned how to make the wooden-frame . . .
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Two essays for Earth Day — "Acting Our Age: Reflections on Earth Day" by Lloyd Irland and "Protect What You Love — Maine’s Dark Skies" by Roger Merchant
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Beginning Monday, May 21, Maine Department of Transportation will implement a new flat-rate ticket pricing structure at the Maine State Ferry Service (MSFS). The new rate structure standardizes ferry prices across the entire system . . .
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Questions are being asked as to whether a $950 million electricity tranmission line that Central Maine Power proposes to build across a remote part of Maine will reduce greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere, as intended. . . .
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Following is a March 28 Facebook post from the Oakland, Maine, Police Department: “File this one under the ‘Are you kidding me?’ category. While heading up towards one of our schools in the distinctive black-and-white cruiser . . .
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Former Rockland City Manager James Chaousis has announced his run for the Falmouth Town Council. Chaousis, who now works at his wife’s family business W.D. Matthews Machinery Company in Auburn, wrote on his Facebook . . .
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Capitalism is a good system that provides individual freedoms in a way no other system has approximated, according to Rebecca Henderson, the Harvard Business School professor who researches how large corporations shift . . .
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Eight Tibetan Buddhist refugee monks traveled from India to midcoast Maine as part of their 13-month tour of the US. Their Sacred Art Tour brings awareness to the plight of Tibetans, as well as a profound experience in the . . .
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