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STONINGTON — Five young people were injured when a car failed to negotiate a curve and crossed a centerline colliding with a dump truck nearly head-on July 3 on Route 15 in Stonington.
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BLUE HILL — A man and a woman visiting Maine died when their car crashed on a sharp corner at the bottom of Greene’s Hill across from the Fish Net just after 1 a.m. Wednesday.
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ELLSWORTH — Shoppers and employees at the L.L. Bean shopping center on High Street were temporarily evacuated at noon Wednesday while the Ellsworth Fire Department investigated a small electrical fire behind the building.
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SULLIVAN — Bingo attendance and revenue are dwindling and organizers are blaming the lure of slot machines in Bangor, and, in part, gas prices.
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Electricity Rate Increases Kick In
ELLSWORTH — The price of electricity just went up for Bangor Hydro-Electric’s 115,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Hancock, Penobscot and Washington counties.
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ELLSWORTH — A boom truck hoisted The Grand’s new and much-anticipated projector to the theater’s roof Monday afternoon.
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Washington’s Newseum: Showcase Of American and World Journalism
WASHINGTON — You have to know where to look, but The Ellsworth American has its own niche at The Newseum, the new Pennsylvania Avenue showcase of American journalism.
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VERONA ISLAND — The Waldo County Sheriff’s Department and the Maine State Police are investigating the robbery and shooting of a Verona Island man on Saturday.
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Consolidation
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SULLIVAN — The school consolidation process has often been compared to a marriage without the possibility of divorce.
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Consolidation
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BLUE HILL — At their weekly meeting last Friday, selectmen agreed to disburse $2,000 to the Maine Coalition to Save Schools.
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Features
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EASTBROOK — Some 150 young campers from all over Hancock County attended the first week of Camp Discovery last week. The children, ranging in age from 5 to 15, are divided according to grade into three camps.
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Statehouse News Service
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AUGUSTA — Central Maine Power Tuesday officially launched its plans to build a new transmission line that will pass through 80 Maine towns on its way from Orrington to Newington, N.H.
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AUGUSTA — The State Archives are full with no room for any more documents.
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Baseball
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ELLSWORTH — Two weeks into the American Legion Zone 1 baseball season, the Trenton Acadians sit atop the standings.
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Waterfront
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ELLSWORTH — It happens every summer.
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Opera House Brings Stonington Residents Together for Art
It’s hard to imagine what the Shaker community of Sabbathday Lake in Maine would have in common with New Orleans’ Own Hot 8 Brass Band.
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Editorials
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Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services has once again put the screws to the state’s human service agencies. Last week, the DHHS notified providers that it would delay processing and paying about $39.6 million in Medicaid claims for a week in order to improve its own budget picture. By delaying the payments, the department could avoid a deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30 and tap into the new fiscal year budget beginning July 1.
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HANCOCK — A fire ignited by a cigarette left burning on a porch displaced tenants in a clapboard multi-family home last weekend.
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Today:
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
