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2 hrs ago | The Citizen

Maine governor orders $63M in department cutbacks

Gov. John Baldacci ordered Maine state departments Friday to curtail spending by $63 million to make sure the budget is balanced.

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Related Topix: Maine Government, US Governors, John Baldacci

6 hrs ago | Boston.com

4th fire in N. Maine town

Fire investigators are trying to determine if there's a connection between a fire that destroyed a house in Medway and three other intentionally set fires in the northern Maine town.

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15 hrs ago | WCSH 6 Portland

Outlook Bleak For Maine's Judicial System

Leigh Saufley, Maine's chief justice says the judicial branch in the state is already bare bones, and it's about to get worse.

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Related Topix: Maine Government

Thu Nov 19, 2009

York Weekly

Wells rapper gives Maine a rap act worth following

Ryan "Spose" Peters hasn't been shot nine times and doesn't boast about his street rep.

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Related Topix: Wells, ME, Life, Food, Bar-B-Q

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Maine regulators set power line project hearings

Maine utility regulators have set dates for another round of public hearings on Central Maine Power's $1.5 billion plan to expand its transmission network.

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Bangor Daily News

2nd Maine firefighter charged with a

GREENWOOD, Maine a ' A volunteer firefighter has been charged with arson in connection with overnight fires that destroyed two vacant houses in western Maine.

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Related Topix: Greenwood, ME, Fire, Bethel, ME, Easton, ME, Presque Isle, ME

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Bangor Daily News

University of Maine hosts wind energy company

Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine in Orono, talks to Sjur Bratland , asset manager, and Knut Erik Steen , technical manager, both with Hywind from the Norwegian company Statoil, about research conducted at the facility.

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Related Topix: Maine Government, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, University of Maine, Orono, ME

Sun Journal

Maine machete attack suspect asks to withdraw plea

A 19-year-old Augusta man wants to withdraw his guilty pleas in a vicious machete attack on a father and daughter in their rural Pittston home.

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Bangor Daily News

How safe are Mainers when it comes to gun crime in their home state?:

How safe are Mainers when it comes to gun crime in their home state? Very safe, according to studies and crime statistics compilations.

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Related Topix: Prison, University of Southern Maine

Tue Nov 17, 2009

WCSH-TV Portland

Another Candidate In Maine Governor's Race

The race for governor is even more crowded. John Richardson, the commissioner of the state Department of Economic and Community Development and former Speaker of the House, announced his candidacy Monday.

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MaineToday

Hard times fail to undermine Maine philanthropy

A year ago the Maine Community Foundation, one of the state's largest philanthropic enterprises, was preparing for hard times ahead.

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Village Soup

Many people from near and far came to Maine Gold last ...

Mort and Jean Strom of Camden enjoy breakfast at Maine Gold's Sugar House Cafe last weekend.

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

Sun Journal

Taxes are always a central

John Baldacci next year. The crowded mix of candidates includes seasoned State House insiders, business leaders who've been hitting the pavement hard for months, and candidates to match every ideological stripe.

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Related Topix: Susan Collins, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, John Baldacci, US Governors, Portland Metro, Portland, ME

Boston.com

Maine Boy Scouts rally to save beloved summer camp

Hundreds of Maine Boy Scouts are trying to keep Camp Gustin in Sabattus from being sold.

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Related Topix: Sabattus, ME, Poland, ME, Lewiston Metro

WBZ TV

Brunswick Democrat To Enter Maine Governor's Race

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Related Topix: Maine Government

Hub Politics

The Maine Reason

With 87 percent of precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes had 53 percent of the vote in a referendum that asked Maine voters whether they wanted to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage that had passed the Legislature and was signed by Democratic Gov.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Gay/Lesbian, Maine Government

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Bangor Daily News

Archdiocese donated to defeat Maine gay marriage:

ST. LOUIS a ' The Archdiocese of St. Louis says Archbishop Robert Carlson used $10,000 in discretionary funds to support the successful effort to prevent legalization of gay marriage in Maine.

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Related Topix: Maine Government, Gay/Lesbian, Wedding

Bangor Daily News

Mobile clinic travels for Maine veterans

Korean War veteran Clayton Lancaster, 78 of Dexter walks back to his car after visiting the Togus Mobile Healthcare Clinic for some lab work in Dover-Foxcroft Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs, Dexter, ME, Dover-Foxcroft, ME, Greenville, ME, Bangor Metro

StarNewsOnline.com

Maine Town Is Riven by Housing Dispute

Down a rural road where wood smoke spirals from chimneys in the settling twilight, a five-acre lot thick with spruce trees is the unlikely site of a dream deferred.

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Related Topix: Milbridge, ME, Washington County, ME

Sat Nov 14, 2009

WABI-TV Bangor

Maine Artisan Craft Fair

Some folks looking to support the local economy and get some shopping done spent time at the Bangor Civic Center.

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Related Topix: Bangor Metro, Bangor, ME, Photography, Arts

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