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Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 1 pm

 

Maine ethics watchdog votes to investigate anti-CMP corridor group


The commission voted 2 to 1 to investigate Stop the Corridor.
 
 
 

Regulators want to know who should pay for $580K CMP audit


The Maine Public Utilities Commission is asking the public how it wants to split up the cost for an audit of Central Maine Power Co.'s metering and billing and rate cases.
 
 
 

Envelope filled with white powder mailed to immigration office in South Portland


An employee who sorts mail at the office on Gannett Drive noticed the powder when it leaked from the envelope.
 
 
 

Fruit wine may make Maine the next Napa Valley


Fruit wine has a bad reputation in the wine world, often derided as sickly sweet, unsophisticated, low-alcohol juice. In Maine, though, fruit wines have developed over the past few decades to be dry, complex and, perhaps most importantly, local.
 
 
 

UMaine opening dorms to students over spring break amid global virus outbreak


Administrators are urging students to remain on campus during spring break amid the new coronavirus outbreak.
 
 
 

How CMP could try to stall anti-corridor referendum in the Maine courts


The Maine secretary of state's office said it didn’t have time to investigate claims against corridor opponents, but CMP and its allies have 10 days to challenge that decision in Maine Superior Court.
 
 
 

Man who inspired cult fears in Aroostook County arrested in Madawaska


Gary D. Blankenship, 35, and Brittany T. Dixon, 31, were arrested Monday after police discovered they were wanted by police in Tennessee.
 
 
 

How much do you know about Maine’s iconic symbols?


You might know that Maine's state bird is the black-capped chickadee. And the state insect is the honeybee. But what other Maine state symbols do you know?
 
 
 

5-year-old Gardiner girl helps catch a pike that’s as long as she is


Kevin Tracewski of Old Town has fond memories of ice fishing trips with his children when they were young, so it only seemed natural, now that the kids are all grown up, to share similar experiences with his granddaughter.
 
 
 

16 more teams prepare to join Maine’s eight-player football ranks next season


Sixteen more schools are expected to shift from the traditional 11-player version of the sport to the eight-player version that made its varsity debut in Maine last season.
 
 
 

Joe Biden’s surprise Maine win could foreshadow a tough path for Bernie Sanders


Maine was supposed to be a friendly environment for Sen. Bernie Sanders. His narrow loss here suggests that other states he won in 2016 might not come as easily this time around.
 
 
 

How Maine’s little-known war changed America forever


The incident contributed to growing pressure on the U.S. and Great Britain to determine once and for all where the northeasternmost borders between the countries’ North American territories should be placed.
 
 
 

The UMaine women’s basketball team has defied the odds to reach the America East championship game


Vachon and her staff had to find a way to get the players to maximize their strengths, improve their weaknesses, find the right rotation for each particular opponent with a limited bench, make in-game adjustments and mix up defenses.
 
 
 

Man charged in drive-by shooting that injured 7-year-old Waterville girl


An 18-year-old man accused of being in a car during a drive-by shooting in Maine that injured a 7-year-old girl was charged with assault Monday.
 
 
 

Maine’s three biggest private insurers are covering costs of coronavirus testing


Anthem, Harvard Pilgrim and Aetna will waive all cost-sharing measures like copays and deductibles associated with testing.
 
 
 

Maine expects results from initial round of coronavirus tests today


The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a Monday statement that it expects to have results from an initial round of coronavirus tests on Tuesday after moving testing to a state government lab.
 
 
 

What coronavirus means for Maine’s elderly population


Maine hasn’t had a single confirmed case of the novel coronavirus that’s quickly spreading across the globe, but the state’s elderly care facilities aren’t turning a blind eye to the possibility of the illness coming here.
 
 
 

Maine university system to offer online classes if coronavirus shuts down campuses


With the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continuing to grow around the country and world, the University of Maine System is working to allow students to keep taking classes online.
 
 
 

How to prepare your home and family, if new virus spreads


As the new coronavirus keeps turning up in more places, health experts say it's wise to prepare for wider spread. But people shouldn't panic or hoard large amounts of supplies, they stress.
 
 
 

Defendant in Maine’s first federal hate-crimes trial invokes former Gov. LePage: ‘He’s racist, not me’


The man accused in Maine’s first federal hate-crimes trial invoked former Gov. Paul LePage, seemingly in defense of his own alleged racist attacks on black men in April 2018.
 
 

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