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Good morning. Temperatures will range from the mid-30s and snowing in The County to the 50s with sunny skies in the rest of the state. Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

He found his grandmother’s notebook of traditional Acadian folk songs. Now he’s turning them into an album.
  • Guitarist and singer Rob Sylvain never heard his grandmother, Elisa, sing the traditional Acadian folk songs she knew and loved. But when she died in 1998, she left behind a tattered, spiral-bound notebook filled with handwritten lyrics. Now, he’s ready to record some of the songs she taught him via her elegant script for a double-CD project he’s calling “Memere’s Notebook.”
New manager, local businesses are reinvigorating the long struggling Aroostook Centre Mall
  • Bruce Brigman, the manager of the Aroostook Centre Mall since mid-summer, is seeing his hard work pay off with new local businesses coming in and foot traffic increasing, which he hopes will give him the leverage he needs to get some national chains interested in the space as well. He wants to target businesses such as Michael's and Hobby Lobby.

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Bangor woman’s ‘Wheel of Fortune’ mishap sparks outcry over game show’s rules

  • Kristen Shaw, a 26-year-old Bangor native and a graduate student at Husson University, lost around $2,000 in prize money, and a trip to Nashville valued at $8,000 due to a one-word mistake.
Bangor’s Styrofoam ban starts next year, but many restaurants have already phased it out
  • Bangor will not officially bar restaurants from selling their food in containers made of polystyrene foam — commonly called Styrofoam — for another six weeks, but many of the city’s culinary establishments have already made the jump to alternative materials.
A Hampden man has been found guilty of murder in the 2018 slaying of his sister-in-law

Bucksport’s salmon farm has received the last permit it needs to start building
With nowhere to skate, roller derby teams in Portland soon could be homeless
  • In the past 13 years, Maine Roller Derby typically played half its season at Happy Wheels, the family-friendly roller-skating rink on Warren Avenue in Portland. But after the venue was sold to a developer last month, the question of where the year-round sport can continue hasn’t been answered. Now, the race for space is on.

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