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ELLSWORTH — A jury Wednesday found John “JJ” Turner of Brewer guilty of murdering Tad Howard of Ellsworth over drug money.
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Unpaid Electric Bills Burdening Householders
ELLSWORTH — Hard times and high energy prices have thousands of residential customers owing Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. many millions of dollars.
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Executive Director On Indefinite Leave, Board Determined To Improve Finances
ELLSWORTH — The historic Grand Auditorium — for 70 years a venue for epic dramas — is starring in a suspense tale of its own.
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ELLSWORTH — Like many people from away, Sarah and Edward Flanagan didn’t realize how expensive it is to live in Downeast Maine until they moved from Georgia to Ellsworth.
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Consolidation
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AUGUSTA — Voters in all the state’s cities and towns are being asked to approve their local school budgets at the voting booth this year.
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Our Schools
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BANGOR — It was a field trip on a beautiful spring day for 31 juniors and seniors. For the veterans volunteering at the Cole Land Transportation Museum, it was a trip back in time, retracing memories they never tire of revisiting.
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WINTER HARBOR — Who are these guys?
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AUGUSTA — A coalition made up of the state’s restaurants, convenience store operators, grocers, innkeepers, chambers of commerce and beer, wine and soda distributors has launched a drive to overturn the new taxes passed by the Legislature last month to support the Dirigo Health subsidized insurance program.
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AUGUSTA — The subsidized Dirigo Health insurance program, whose funding is now being threatened by a people’s veto, has cost the state more than $100 million since it started in 2005.
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Tennis
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The George Stevens Academy Eagle boys and girls top the Eastern Maine Class C ranks in the first edition of the Maine Principals’ Association tennis standings issued this week.
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Red-hot EHS Eagles Are 6-0
ELLSWORTH — Junior righthander Pat Kelley of the Ellsworth Eagles flirted with a perfect game for six innings on Tuesday.
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Waterfront
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CASTINE — During Governor John Baldacci’s commencement address at Maine Maritime Academy Saturday, he told graduates they had become lifelong representatives of the state and symbols of its potential.
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Arts & Leisure
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Sullivan Pair Build Smaller Home and Pare Down Lifestyle
When working with an architect, it’s important to clarify exactly what you want.
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Editorials
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One year after an ill-conceived school district consolidation law, championed by Governor John Baldacci and Education Commissioner Susan Gendron, was enacted by the 123rd Legislature on the coattails of the state budget, Maine’s schools are in greater turmoil than ever.
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NASCAR
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RICHMOND, Va. — Bizarre might be a good description for Saturday night’s Cup race at Richmond International Raceway.
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WINTER HARBOR — More than 2,600 miles separate the rugged granite coastline of Winter Harbor and the high desert desolation of the New Mexico town of Datil.
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ELLSWORTH — Motorists have created a bypass through a parking lot at the corner of High and Foster streets, imperiling patients and employees at the Hancock Dental practice.
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SULLIVAN — The Flanders Bay School Board Tuesday approved the proposed $3.7 million school budget for the district, which includes Franklin, Gouldsboro, Sorrento, Steuben, Sullivan and Winter Harbor, but narrowly defeated a motion to restore a budget cut reducing the second guidance counselor position at Sumner from full- to part-time.
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ELLSWORTH — The city intends to study its stormwater collection system to determine how and where it could be expanded to accommodate future development.
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AUGUSTA — Some 200 to 800 names on the state’s sex offender registry will be removed under changes approved by the Legislature in the last days of the session — changes that were still being reviewed by the Governor’s office Tuesday.
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AUGUSTA — Two applications for people’s veto petitions have been filed to overturn the law passed last month that puts Maine on the path to compliance with the federal REAL ID Act — a law opponents say violates people’s civil liberties.
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The outstanding U.S. public debt on Wednesday, April 23, was $9,357,366,047,164.99. Each citizen’s share of this debt is $30,794.89. One year ago, the U.S. public debt was $8,827,487,030,519.89.
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Today:
Monday, May 12, 2008
