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Connecticut native travels country by canoe/bike GRAFTON - What a long strange trip it's been.

On Nov. 3 a landmark vote on same sex marriage will take place in Maine. There voters will cast ballots on a measure known as Question 1 . It will be the first time that voters can decide whether to affirm a same sex ballot measure that was approved by a state legislature and signed by a governor.

There is no question that federal, state, and local public health officials need to take the H1N1 flu seriously.

While the District 1 and at-large races are uncontested , we offer here those candidates' answers, as well as those of the two candidates vying for the District 2 seat being vacated by Robert O'Brien. 1) Do you believe the superintendent's abilities and performance regarding managing the school budget should be discussed in public or in private? 2) ...

Voters in Maine, where the largest city, Portland, is roughly half the size of Oakland, will be the first in the nation to decide whether to overturn a law approving same-sex marriage after it was passed by a state legislature and signed by a governor.

Students at the University of Maine are being strongly urged to get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus, which has sickened hundreds of young adults at other college campuses around the country and in the state.

Bates College students work to create the number 350 with their bicycles prior to the start of a bike parade in Lewiston on Saturday.

About 150 people gathered for a rally in Times Square as part of a series of demonstrations around the globe calling for action on global warming.

Former Maine Gov. Angus King addresses a crowd at Bates College on Thursday during a "Surviving the Energy Crisis: How to Save Money" conference for local businesspeople.

Police composite photo of a male who assaulted a jogger in Lewiston Tuesday. A man assaulted a jogger as she ran on Summer Street near Riverside Street in the Back Bay area at about 5:50 p.m. Monday, police said.

Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Sara Karam, left, and her partner Eileen Badich, both of Lewiston sing along with an interfaith clergy during a marriage equality service at the First Universalist Church in Auburn on Sunday evening.

LEWISTON a ' To help ensure an H1N1 flu outbreak does not happen in Lewiston and Auburn schools, the two school departments have temporarily stopped having Bates College students work in the public schools.

The Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire and the first openly gay, non-celibate bishop in a major Christian denomination, speaks at the Bates College Chapel on Thursday.

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It is exactly 3 p.m. on a sunny, clear day in March. In a small room on the campus of Bates College in Lewiston, eleven people sit around an oak conference table covered with piles of legal-sized paper.

A For more information about H1N1, also known as swine flu, visit www.maineflu.gov. The site is updated several times daily.

A judge from the International Court of Justice was to speak to a Detroit audience to inaugurate a new international law program at Wayne State University.

PORTLAND a ' There are three seats up for election Nov. 3 on the School Committee.

Massachusetts Institute if Technology Professor Richard S. Lindzen presents a lecture at Bates College on "Deconstructing Global Warming" Monday evening.

LEWISTON a ' Bates College earned a high grade for environmental sustainability on campus, according to an annual survey of 332 colleges and universities across the country and in Canada.

After 6 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus this week Bates College officials and State health leaders are looking to stop the disease in its tracks.

The Maine Center for Disease Control says there are 14 confirmed cases of swine flu at Bates College.

A high-speed data network that could further research and development efforts in Maine has been finished.

The Maine Humanities Council will present a public symposium, Looking For Zora: The Many Lives of Zora Neale Hurston on October 17, 2009, from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm at Bates College's Pettengill Hall.

PZ Myers, a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota and an atheist, spoke to students at Bates College on Tuesday about "The Importance of Blasphemy." LEWISTON a ' To biologist, teacher and Internet rabble-rouser PZ Myers, a little blasphemy is a good thing.

LEWISTON a ' A Lewiston woman who died Monday in a dramatic crash on the Maine Turnpike was remembered Tuesday as courageous in sharing her story to encourage other Somali girls to pursue educations.