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The weekend storm is looking more wet than white for parts of Maine. However, the mountains should get some snow. What began during his first year of college as a police cadet turned into a career in law enforcement spanning more than 45 years, 26 of those years spent leading the South Portland Police Department. The worst outbreak of desert locusts in Kenya in 70 years has seen hundreds of millions of the bugs swarm into the East African nation from Somalia and Ethiopia. On Jan. 17, the Trump administration proposed rollbacks in nutrition standards in the school meal program. Under the proposal, legumes and potatoes will count as vegetables, fewer fruits will be served at breakfast and a la carte meals will allow students to select items high in fat. University of Maine women’s basketball coach Amy Vachon said that in all of her years as a player and a coach, she has never been involved with a team that has had as many injuries as this year’s squad. A hotel company that owns and operates several hotels in Bar Harbor is seeking voter approval to change restrictions on oceanfront motel property so it can redevelop the parcel into a lodge and cabins. Over the past few decades, these alpaca farmers in Maine have been able to sustain their living — even as many early adopters have left the industry — by maintaining diverse streams of income around the versatile animal, from fiber products to programs that allows people to “lease” an alpaca and board it at a farm for a fee. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg will campaign in Portland and Scarborough on Monday as the billionaire opens a Maine campaign office in his late-breaking and self-funded bid to rise up the uncertain Democratic presidential primary field. Customers of a Waterville deli might be at risk of contracting Hepatitis A after an infected food service worker there prepared food for more than 10 days in late December and early January. The pedestrian who died after being struck by a car in Orrington on Thursday evening has been identified as 34-year-old Megan E. McGraw of Bangor, police said Friday. It’s been nearly two years since a former farmer was accused of animal cruelty after he allegedly killed and buried about a dozen heritage pigs just a day before state animal welfare agents were scheduled to check on them. The Maine Marine Patrol has identified the two fishermen who died Thursday after their boat sank. Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case at Donald Trump's impeachment trial that he abused power like no other president in history, swept up by a "completely bogus" Ukraine theory pushed by attorney Rudy Giuliani. A man accused of slaying a Maine woman in Cherryfield more than 2½ years ago pleaded not guilty to murder Friday in Washington County Superior Court in Machias. An auger head of a bollard installed by a Manchester company to protect an air-conditioning unit six days before a deadly September explosion at a Farmington nonprofit severed the propane line and caused the blast, the state fire marshal’s office said Friday. All eyes are still on Maine’s senior senator as the impeachment trial continues in Washington. Fat biking is becoming increasingly popular in Maine, but the cost of the equipment needed for the sport can be prohibitive for beginners. Many of these Maine-based films will be screened during the Maine at the Movies Film Festival, which will tour the state as part of the Bicentennial, March 6-15. When Chinese investors touched down in Old Town more than a year ago, they stunned residents with not only the purchase of the shuttered mill, but also a unique grand-opening celebration — a feng shui cleansing. A former Maine woman who says she is a survivor of sex trafficking in the Portland area has sued two large hotel chains in U.S. District Court claiming they have ignored human trafficking activities in their motels.
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CLASSIFIEDS EAST MACHIAS MLS#1282261 |
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Covenants protect investment. Rd front, rights to common lot. Near Gardner Lake. Great opp. Survey says 8.97ac. lot. $26,500 Sunrise Realty, Anita Johnson, | | Read more... |
HAMPDEN MLS#1413707 |
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4 BR/2 BA 1918 farmhouse on 1.2 acs. Spacious fam. rm., huge backyard, 2-car att. gar. & front porch. $169,000 Jean Jenkins, Vacationland Realty, VacationlandRealtyMaine.com | | Read more... |
DEDHAM |
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Lot # 1 Hillside Dr. Conv. loc. minutes from 1A. Subdivision lot., Elec. at St., septic test avail. Walking trails abound & Lucerne Beach Club nearby. $25,000 | | Read more... |
COUNTRY LIVING IN MILO RANCH |
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3 BR/1.5 BA W/2-car attach gar Deck & nice yard. Big basement. 1-car detach gar & shed w/gen. Near Schoodic & Ebeemee Lakes & KI. Trails nearby. Anne Bailey, DeWitt-Jones Realty, 207-943-3163 | | Read more... | Place a classified ad with the BDN |
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