Hancock news from the BDN for 02/05/2020

Hancock County news updates from the Bangor Daily News.

Hancock County news from the BDN for Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Charges dismissed against Peter Vigue after ref shot with cannon at football game

A third charge — possessing or discharging a firearm on or near a school property — will be dismissed if Vigue stays out of trouble for the next six months, according to court documents.
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Maine high court rules in favor of MDI auto museum that’s been trying to sue its own trustees

The Maine state supreme court has overturned a lower court decision that denied legal standing to an antique automobile museum on Mount Desert Island that has been trying to sue two men who control some of the museum finances.
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This Blue Hill ‘space capsule’ will be one of fewer than 100 net-zero homes in Maine

The house has an odd look from the road, with five small narrow horizontal and vertical windows. But the house will be so airtight that its heating system, a heat pump, will only occasionally need to provide heat to the eventual homeowners.
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Voters will decide whether to ban pesticides in Blue Hill

Voters will decide during an election in April whether to join 29 other Maine municipalities in prohibiting the sale and use of synthetic pesticides in town.
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Driver in fatal Orland crash told police he drank 6 shots of vodka, court document says

A man who crashed his truck Tuesday in Orland, resulting in the death of a passenger, told police that he had consumed six shots of 100-proof vodka prior to getting behind the wheel.
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