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    Content Posted in 2013

     

    The Bangor Region Wellness Council was launched in 2002 to help local companies, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    The bankruptcy of BroadcastAmerica has brought business complaints to light, inc, Lee Burnett

     

    The bankruptcy woes of Chrysler and General Motors will affect the handful of Ma, Whit Richardson

     

    The Basin site in Phippsburg, an archaeological site on the shores of a saltwate

     

    The Baxter State Park Authority last week voted unanimously to uphold a ban on m

     

    The Baxter State Park Authority voted unanimously to continue a ban on motorcycl

     

    The Biddeford fire which killed 2-year-old Ashley Alvarez of Massachusetts Frida

     

    The Biddeford School Committee plans to send layoff notices to all of the 137 te

     

    The Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has constructed a new campus in East B, Lori Valigra

     

    The Bigelow Laboratory in Boothbay Harbor, which in December seemed ready to clo

     

    The bipartisan Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices yesterda

     

    The Blaine House in Augusta will be receiving some much needed repair work. Auth

     

    The blizzard of 1993 did extensive damage to the clam industry in Cutler, plowin

     

    The blizzard of 1993 was a financial boon to companies that had something that c

     

    The board of directors of Camp Fire Hitonowa Council are forming a land trust to

     

    The board of directors of Freeport Child Care Services has fired administrator G

     

    The board of directors of Regional Waste Systems has postponed for sixty days a

     

    The board of directors of Regional Waste Systems have recommended that the $18 m

     

    The board of directors of Regional Waste Systems Inc. voted 17-8 against buildin

     

    The board of directors of Regional Waste Systems is likely to vote down a plan t

     

    The board of directors of Regional Waste Systems voted Thursday to give the agen

     

    The Board of Directors of Scarborough's Camp Ketcha resigned en masse at a speci

     

    The board of directors of the Portland Public Library has scheduled six neighbor

     

    The Board of Environmental Protection has responded favorably to Bangor Hydro-El

     

    The Board of Environmental Protection on Wednesday told Bangor Hydro-Electric Co

     

    The Board of Osteopathic Examination and Registration has granted Portland surge

     

    The board of School Administrative District 11 voted 7-5 yesterday to reinstate

     

    The board of Scott Paper Co., which owns the S. D. Warren mill in Westbrook, wil

     

    The board of the Sacopee Valley Health Center upheld the dismissal of Dr. Mary N

     

    The boards of Maine Medical Center, Mercy Hospital and Brighton Medical Center w

     

    The boards of Portland's Maine Medical Center, Mercy Hospital and Brighton Medic

     

    The boats of the Maine Island Ferry Service are the lifelines of six Maine islan

     

    The booming popularity of California wines may lead to a shortage for Maine dist, Chris Hyde

     

    The Boothbay Board of Assessors wants the Baxter Island Association to pay back

     

    The bottled water industry is booming across the country, and Maine is home to N, Sara Donnelly

     

    The Boulos Co. and Appraisal Associates have announced the joint publication of

     

    The Boulos Company has scaled back the size of a building it proposes to build a

     

    The Boys Singers of Maine were prevented from participating in President Clinton

     

    The Bridgton Public Library, built in 1913 and listed on the National Register o

     

    The Brookings Institution reports that Portland is the fastest-growing city in t, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    The Brunswick Intown Group has made the semifinals in a competition sponsored by

     

    The Brunswick Naval Air Station's bomb squad is scheduled to be eliminated in Se

     

    The Building Materials Bank in Gray warehouses reusable building materials and s

     

    "The Business of Advertising." Across Maine, hybrid, high-tech communication ag, Adam Day and Tory Wright

     

    "The Business of Advertising." Lengthy, detailed article on L.L. Bean's new, $2, Adam Day

     

    "The Business of Advertising." Profile of the Broderson Awards of the Advertisi, Scott Sutherland

     

    The Business Round Table for Youth and Families gave awards to two teenagers: Yo

     

    The Business Week 1000, the magazine's annual ranking of corporate market value,

     

    The Buxton Road overpass, which crosses the Maine Turnpike in Saco, crumbled in

     

    The CADET, an excursion vessel belonging to the Casco Bay Island Steamboat Co. o, David D. Platt

     

    The Canadian government has ordered the Canadian Atlantic Railway to keep the ra

     

    The Canadian province of New Brunswick has levied an 11 percent sales tax on goo

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Board of Sewer Appeals recently recommended that the town con

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Conservation Commission have plans to create a nature trail a

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Planning Board voted 4-0 to table a fourth request for subdiv

     

    The Cape Elizabeth School Board has decided the high school is not ready to join

     

    The Cape Elizabeth School Board is expected to approve Superintendent of Schools

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Service Delivery Options Committee is expected to issue a rep

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Town Center Planning Committee has put forth a plan that woul

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Town Council has accepted a long-range plan which would expan

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Town Council has approved an agreement with the federal gover

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Town Council on Monday voted 5-1 to extend a moratorium on ce

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Town Council voted to accept a donation of about 60 acres of

     

    The Cape Elizabeth Zoning Board of Appeals tonight will decide the issue of whet

     

    The Casco Bay Education Alliance was formed by the towns of Falmouth, Yarmouth,

     

    The Casco Bay Estuary Project is awarding grants totaling $12,600 to various ins

     

    The Casco Bay Island Transit District board is considering three proposals that

     

    The Center for Performance Studies, a community-based acting school located at t

     

    The chairman of the South Portland School Board wants the board to review how th

     

    The Challengers Division of Little League gives special-needs children ages 8-18

     

    The Chamber of Commerce of the Greater Portland Region on Wednesday honored the

     

    The Charles J. Loring Amvets Post 25 has submitted to city officials preliminary

     

    The charred body of former Maine College of Art student Suzanne Marie Hill, 24,

     

    The Chebeague Historical Society raises funds and builds membership by sponsorin, Cherie Galyean

     

    The Cheverus boys and Mt. Ararat girls walked away with the Class A indoor track

     

    The Children's Resource Center, the non-profit arts and crafts store which was b

     

    The Christian Civic League of Maine wants the United Way of Greater Portland to

     

    The cities of Portland and Westbrook are alerting homeowners that they must disc

     

    The city of Bangor has agreed to join Portland in the latter's class-action suit

     

    The city of Bath has hired Robert McDonald of Coopers & Lybrand of Boston to cri

     

    The city of Bath is trying to change its image from the blue-collar home of Bath

     

    The city of Portland has established emergency parking rules through April 1 to

     

    The city of Portland has mailed questionnaires to 900 businesses as part of a re

     

    The city of Portland hired consultant Sarah Speare to help bring the city's arts, Michael Donahue

     

    The city of Portland is close to reaching an agreement with the York-Cumberland

     

    The city of Portland is counting on passage of a transportation bond bill, which, Christopher Hyde

     

    The city of Portland is hoping for a $90,000 Superfund grant to conduct a Brownf, Sara Walbridge

     

    The city of Portland is in the process of purging its voter list of the names of

     

    The city of Portland might sue the state over a debate that sunk a deal with Oly, Jackie Farwell

     

    The city of Portland on Tuesday started including a survey with each parking tic

     

    The city of Portland, the Portland Water District, and the Maine Board of Enviro, Shirley Jacks

     

    The city of Portland, University of Southern Maine, and Sail Maine are working t, John N. Cole

     

    The city of South Portland will be starting some major sewer work shortly at Wat

     

    The city of Westbrook has agreed to pay S. D. Warren nearly $1 million over four

     

    The city of Westbrook has filed suit in Cumberland County Superior Court against

     

    The city-owned Portland Fish Exchange is pinning its hopes for survival on a con, Sara Donnelly

     

    The civil rights unit of the state Attorney General's Office has filed a civil l

     

    The Civil War correspondence between Wesley and Sabrina Brown of Islesboro detai, Randolph Purinton

     

    The client list of Portland interior designer Lisa Whited reads like a Who's Who, Sara Walbridge

     

    The closing of the Million Dollar Bridge has produced, unlike expectations,a bus, Terri Winter Messer

     

    The Coalition for Fair Atlantic Salmon Trade has called for duties against "dump

     

    The Coalition for Lower Utility Bills, a consortium of groups opposed to a Centr

     

    The Coalition for Lower Utility Bills (CLUB), made up of about 20 consumer and b

     

    The Coast Guard has decided to demolish the Heron Neck Lighthouse keeper's house

     

    The Coast Guard has stopped releasing information about the cargo aboard vessels

     

    The Coast Guard rescued three men from the Portland-based fishing vessel King Ph

     

    The Colby College Judicial Board says Colby student Paul Froio should be cleared

     

    The Colby College Student Affairs Committee has placed the men's rugby team on p

     

    The commanding officer of the Brunswick Naval Air Station has asked the Navy to

     

    The Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Act of 1988 requires most fishing

     

    The Commission on Governmental Ethics and Electiion Practices recommended unanim

     

    The Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices recommended unanimo

     

    The Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices will consider later

     

    The Commission to Review the Electoral Process, formed in the wake of the recent

     

    The Commission to Study the Future of Maine's Courts has proposed ways to broade

     

    The Committee for a Safe Energy Future, formerly known as the Maine Nuclear Refe

     

    The Committee on Lower Electric Rates, which includes International Paper, Boise

     

    The committee overseeing renovations of the Portland City Hall Auditorium agreed

     

    The committee overseeing renovations to the Portland City Hall Auditorium will s

     

    The committee overseeing the renovation of the Portland City Hall Auditorium end

     

    The committee that advises the Maine Department of Transportation on how to spen

     

    The complex list of cuts and reorganizations outlined last weeek by University o

     

    The Concord Coalition, founded by former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas and

     

    The Congregation Bet Ha'am, southern Maine's only Reform group, will observe a f

     

    The Congressional Term Limits Coalition filed a proposal to bar from the Maine b

     

    The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) announced its intent to sue the Freeport S, Sean Donahue and Scott Sutherland

     

    The contents of the Mary Elizabeth Barnes home in Brunswick will be sold at auct

     

    The Convention & Visitors Bureau named Sally Nelson of The Longfellow Group a "l, Terri Winter Messer

     

    The conversion of Portland's Hadlock Field into a minor league baseball stadium

     

    The Cornerstones of Science initiative has selected 14 Maine libraries as partne, Peggy Roberts

     

    The crew of the Silver Bullet is safe after the vessel swamped and sank in rough

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    The Crucible : January 2003

     

    The Cumberland County Budget Advisory Committee yesterday submitted suggestions

     

    The Cumberland County Civic Center board of trustees gave unanimous support to n

     

    The Cumberland County Civic Center was like a scene out of the 1960s as The Jerr

     

    The Cumberland County Superior Court yesterday barred Deborah L. Allanach, the w

     

    The Cumberland Farmers Club has nominated Rebecca Mahoney, club secretary since

     

    The Cumberland Town Council is considering forming a civil service commission to

     

    The Damariscotta River Association has been awarded a $455,000 federal grant to

     

    The death of 11-year-old Jennifer Noreen Smith of Monticello, whose body was dis

     

    The decision by Judge Gladys Kessler has gravely threatened the fishing industry, Devin Wilson

     

    The decision by Regional Waste Systems Inc. to halt work on the landfill and rec

     

    The decision of the MacDonald's Corp. to build a restaurant about a half-mile fr

     

    The Deering Oaks Master Plan Committee, made up of representatives of Friends of

     

    The Democratic members of Maine's congressional delegation have praised Presiden

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    The Diary of Anne Frank : January 2000

     

    The differences between Canada and the United States are most manifest in the ma, David D. Platt

     

    The difficult job market has made it easier for Maine police departments to recr

     

    The Dirigo Alliance, a self-proclaimed progressive coalition, has announced its

     

    The disbanding of the 187th Infantry Brigade, a U.S. Army Reserve unit with 458

     

    The Don't Waste Maine Alliance, a group that wants to force a fourth statewide v

     

    The double-decker cruise ship "Casablanca" will arrive in Portland this month, s

     

    The DownEast Technology software company sells sales force automation, bringing, Ken Greenleaf

     

    The Downtown Portland Corporation has approved a $150,000 low-interest loan to h

     

    The Downtown Portland Corportion announced that it will lend $75,000 to the grou

     

    The dredging of Portland harbor will begin in October. Sen. Olympia Snowe and M, Ruth Riddick

     

    The drive to impose term limits on Maine legislators and certain state officials

     

    The drowning death of urchin diver David Maxwell, 25, of Biddeford, is the third

     

    The dumping of cheap Chilean salmon in the United States is affecting our relati, Chris Hyde

     

    The East Coast Tuna Association will pay for a study designed to tally the numbe

     

    The Eastern Seaboard Apprenticeship Training Conference, scheduled to be held in

     

    The eight declared candidates for the 1994 gubernatorial election have combined

     

    The Elizabeth B. Noyce Trust of Medomak has contributed another $60,000 to the o

     

    The Empire Knight, a British steamship used for cargo transport during World War

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    The Emporer's New Clothes : April 1940

     

    The enactment of President Clinton's health-care reform proposals, which include

     

    The end of the Cold War has meant a decrease in military spending, forcing Maine

     

    The enigmatic migration patterns of the giant bluefin tuna make it difficult for, Ben Neal

     

    The estimated cost of a passenger train station in Portland has risen to $1.8 mi

     

    "The Fact Book." Sixteen-page booklet of charts broken down by county showing p

     

    The Fair Budget Coalition yesterday pledged to push for a responsible solution t

     

    The Falmouth School Facilities Committee is considering building two or four new

     

    The Falmouth Town Council plans to discuss drafting regulations which would affe

     

    The family of former Portland native Nancy Cole, who was murdered in Florida in

     

    The family of Joseph Packard, who died in last December's Congress Street apartm

     

    The family of the late Thomas Curlew Jr., who was one of four fatalities in a De

     

    The family of Thomas Field, 25, of Lisbon, the American serviceman being held ca

     

    The Family Security Act, currently emerging in the Legislature, would guarantee

     

    The Farmers Home Administration, which distributed nearly $50 million in loans a

     

    The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, in partnership with Island Institute and

     

    The fate or whereabouts of 38-year-old Roderick Hotham remains a mystery. The Ba

     

    The father of Marine Lance Cpl. Brian Scammon Jr. said that his son, shown Thurs

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    The Feathered Hand, Alison Hildreth

     

    The February 22 edition of Fortune magazine has listed Idexx Laboratories Inc. o

     

    The Federal Aviation Authority has given the Portland International Jetport the

     

    The federal Base Closure Commission voted 6-0 to keep open the Portsmouth Naval

     

    The federal Cable Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 governs how mu

     

    The federal Capital Purchase Program, aimed at providing well-capitalized banks, Rebekah Metzler

     

    The Federal Communications Commission has stripped Maine Cellular of its license

     

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected a Central Maine Power Co.

     

    The federal Environmental Protection Agency had initially planned to dump treate

     

    The federal Environmental Protection Agency has accused Portland taxi company To

     

    The federal Environmental Protection Agency has ordered 16 Maine water systems t

     

    The federal Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a $290,000 fine against

     

    The federal Environmental Protection Agency has said it will propose a rule by m

     

    The federal government has expanded its definition of the Boston metropolitan ar

     

    The federal government spent $6.5 billion in Maine last year, or $5,290 per pers

     

    The federal Interstate Commerce Commission opens hearings today on the Canadian

     

    The federal judge hearing the case of retired General Wallace Nutting of Biddefo

     

    The federally-funded Summer Youth Employment Training Program is providing 250 i

     

    The federal minimum wage increase, and Governor King's veto which allowed the mi, Ken Greenleaf

     

    The federal National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed cutting the quotas fo

     

    The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration plans to issue citatio

     

    The federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990 requires oil shippers and handlers to deve

     

    The Federal Reserve's recent announcement that historically low interest rates w, Carol Coultas

     

    The federal Securities and Exchange Commissikon has cleared the way for Unum Cor

     

    The federal Trade Adjustment Assistance program (TAA), which supports workers di, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    The federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Program, which retrains workers displace, Jackie Farwell

     

    The fifth day of testimony in the trial of four defendants in the death of Randa

     

    The final "Charting the Course" piece, taking stock of achievements Maine has ha, Christian MilNeil

     

    The final report of the Toxics Use Reduction Project, a cooperative effort of th

     

    The Finance Authority of Maine and Fleet Bank have announced the creation of the

     

    The Finance Authority of Maine has agreed to guarantee 90 percent of a loan from

     

    The Finance Authority of Maine provides a day-long capital seminar, "Smart Money, Alan Long

     

    The First Annual Light Festival in Athens attracted representatives of the Micma

     

    The first big project at the Jackson Laboratory's new facility in Farmington, C, Lori Valigra

     

    The first case of drug smuggling along the Maine coast appeared in the press in, Edgar M. Boyd

     

    The first in a University of Maine at Augusta televised series on racial issues

     

    The first International Lobster Congress, a two-day event which opened Friday at

     

    The first of a series of articles about Portland's municipal election. This art

     

    The first of a three-part series on the November 2 Cape Elizabeth school referen

     

    The First Universalist Parish Church on Route 22 on the Scarborough-Buxton line

     

    The five-day heat wave which ended on Monday was only the second time that Portl

     

    The five-year-old Talk America has reached $100 million in annual telephone sale, Shirley Jacks

     

    "The Food Issue" piece on how wild salmon has gained market share and status fro, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    "The Food Issue" piece on Maine's specialty food producers, who employed 5,428 p, Whit Richardson

     

    "The Food Issue" piece on restaurants that offer catering services as a way to b, Chris Churchill

     

    "The Food Issue" piece on Steve Arthurs, president and CEO of World Harbors Inc., Taylor Smith

     

    "The Food Issue" piece on the Creamery at Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, whic, Joseph R. Thompson

     

    "The Food Issue" piece on the experimental growing on several Maine farms of qui, Rebecca Zicarelli

     

    "The Food Issue" piece on the Maine Goat Meat Project, developed to try to meet, Scott Sutherland

     

    "The Food Issue" piece on the meal-assembly business in Maine, including Make Th, Kerry Elson

     

    "The Food Issue" piece on York-based Stonewall Kitchen, a specialty food company, Sean Donahue

     

    The Foreside Company, which imports from 15 countries, has received a $3 million, Sara Walbridge

     

    The Foundation for Blood Research in Scarborough has been chosen by a British pu

     

    The four members of the Island Institute's Island Leadership Program, founded in, Mary Terry

     

    The fourteen Maine stores owned by Goodwill of Northern New England need more me, Terri Winter Messer

     

    The fourth annual "Measures of Growth" is vital legislative research. It measur, Shirley Jacks

     

    The fourth presentation in this year's University of Southern Maine Faculty Conc

     

    The Fox Islands Electric Co-op, which serves Vinalhaven and North Haven; and the, Philip W. Conkling

     

    The Fox Islands (Vinalhaven and North Haven) and Islesboro will be celebrating t

     

    The Freeport Merchant's Association has opened a new information center by the r

     

    The Freeport Planning Board has given approval to a new retail building, which w

     

    The Freeport School Board will become the second school board in the state to ha

     

    The Freeport teachers union has suspended its work-to-rule job action, during wh

     

    The Freeport Town Council on October 19 will consider a compromise plan offered

     

    The Friends of Camp Ketcha, a loosely organized groups of neighbors of the Scarb

     

    The "Friends of George and Barbara Bush" staged a welcoming ceremony for the Bus

     

    The Friends of Sebago Lake, a group made of mostly of Sebago Lake lakefront land

     

    The Friends of St. Lawrence Church are trying to decide if the 1897 Portland Con

     

    The Friends of the Maine State Museum plan to launch a campaign to raise $33,500

     

    The future of Maine wood products is far from certain. Agencies like Forster In, Michaela Cavallaro and Scott Sutherland

     

    The future of W. L. Blake plumbing supply company's third warehouse is yet to be, Shirley Jacks

     

    The future use of funds generated by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and, Mindy Woerter

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    The Gate coffeehouse, 1965

     

    The general consensus at the State House in Augusta is that House Speaker John L

     

    The goals of the newly formed Maine Early Learning Investment Group are to impro, Randy Billings

     

    The Good Day Market, once a grubby health food store and Portland West End insti

     

    The Gorham Town Council early yesterday morning cut $223,050 from the 1993-94 bu

     

    The Gorham Town Council has created a 263-acre commercial district on the west s

     

    The Gorham Town Council voted 4-3 to accept a new 26-year contract with Public C

     

    The governors of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont competed against each other at

     

    The governor's panel on school efficiency reconvenes after a break to look for m

     

    The Grace Full Gospel Church at 563 Main Street in Westbrook was destroyed by fi

     

    The Grand Manan V, a full-size 250-car ferry ship, has changed life on Grand Man, David D. Platt and Eric Allaby

     

    The grand opening of the state's first off-track betting parlor was held yesterd

     

    The grassroots Munjoy Hill Neighborhood Organization will ask the Portland City

     

    The Gray Town Council unanimously approved a go-ahead for phase one of the Colly

     

    The Greater Portland area is a latecomer to the idea of economic development col, Robert M. Cook

     

    The Greater Portland Chamber of Commerce has released its study of the port of P, Michael Donahue

     

    The greater Portland home market has finally stabilized after a four-year fall,

     

    The Great State of Maine Airshow drew 40,000 people yesterday to Brunswick Naval

     

    The group Concerned Maine Families kicked off a campaign to gather 50,000 signat

     

    The group Concerned Maine Families, which originally proposed an outright prohib

     

    The group Veterans for Peace received calls from nearly 100 people offering to a

     

    The growth of sea kayaking is causing Maine island owners to worry that intrusiv, Margaret Emerson

     

    The Gulf of Maine runs from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia and knows no political bound, Joseph T. Kelley

     

    The Gulf of Maine supports about 20,000 fishermen and produces $650 million wort, Spencer Apollonio

     

    The Gulf of Maine, which stretches from Boston to the Bay of Fundy, is a microco, George J. Mitchell and David D. Platt

     

    The Hallowell-based Maine Women's Policy Center is preparing a release of "A Wom, Taylor Smith

     

    The Harris family of Harris Point has been processing herring in Eastport for ge, Philip W. Conkling

     

    The harsh winter has created sinkholes, cracked asphalt, and bumpy roads through, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    The Haymarket People's Fund, based in Jamaica Plains, Mass., has awarded $7,000

     

    The hearings in Cumberland designed to determine whether police chief Leon Planc

     

    The high cost of health care in Maine (27% higher than the national average) is, James McCarthy

     

    The High-Land Playland being built in South Portland will be the city's first ha

     

    The high-speed German-built InterCityExpress train rolled into Deering Oaks Wedn

     

    The high turnover rates among teachers in island school systems is a result of b

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    The Hobbit : January 2000

     

    The House, voting 82-54, rejected an Appropriations Committee plan to balance th

     

    The Human Sexuality and Family Living Advisory Board, a community panel which ad

     

    The Hyde School in Bath on Saturday honored the late Sumner A. Hawley, a co-foun

     

    The Immigration and Naturalization Service is backlogged in issuing H-2B foreign, Scott Sutherland

     

    The impending retirement of baby boomers would affect four out of 10 Maine worke, Sara Donnelly

     

    The inauguration of the Maine State Ferry Service on March 4, 1960, began the "F, Cynthia Bourgeault

     

    The initial McKernan administration estimate of $22 million as the amount of Med

     

    The initial plan of having the Maine Democratic Party sponsor President Clinton'

     

    The Institute of Museum Services, a federal museum-funding agency, awarded $656,

     

    The InterCity Express, a German high-speed train now touring the United States,

     

    The Internal Revenue Service plans to auction off a DeLorean DMC-12 sportscar th

     

    The International Boston Seafood Show attracts more than 17,000 buyers and selle, Whit Richardson

     

    The International Council of Museums' Wet Organic Archaeological Materials fifth

     

    The Irwin Co. of Wilmington, Ohio, which operates a 145-worker plant in Gorham,

     

    The Island Institute and the U.S. Coast Guard have reached an agreement that wil

     

    The Island Institute has initiated a $20 million capital campaign to endow three

     

    The Island Institute was very busy in 1986, breaking in its new boat, the Fish H, Philip W. Conkling

     

    The Islands Coalition, chaired by Roger Berle of Cliff Island, has taken on issu, David D. Platt

     

    The Jackson Laboratory has received a $1.2 million grant from the Howard Hughes

     

    The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor announced Monday that it has received $1.5

     

    The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 gra

     

    The Japanese External Trade Organization came to Portland and reported that Main, Ruth Riddick

     

    The job of restoring Portland's 105-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow statue b

     

    The Judiciary Committee heard from both supporters and opponents of a bill that

     

    The jury in the case of four defendants charged in the beating death of Randal B

     

    The Kennebec Girl Scout Council of South Portland and the Abnaki Girl Scout Coun

     

    The Kennebunkport Conservation Trust bought Cape Island, near Cape Porpoise, in, Thomas Bradbury

     

    The Lakes Region school board of SAD 61 has voted to retain teacher Richard H. M

     

    The Land for Maine's Future Board approved purchases of Salmon Brook Lake Bog in

     

    The Landing School in Arundel plans to move beyond its wooden boat-building nich, Whit Richardson

     

    The larger cities and towns in Cumberland County are complaining that they are c

     

    The largest bone of contention on Little Diamond Island this year was the high c, Harold Hackett

     

    The last election dispute stemming from the State House ballot-tampering scandal

     

    The last Maine coast steamboat, the Sabino, is now in the Mystic Seaport museum, Clayton Gross

     

    The latest Fleet New England Poll shows that residents of southern Maine are mor

     

    The latest Strategic Marketing Services Omnibus Poll finds Mainers happy with th

     

    The leader of Maine's American Legion said the military's ban on homosexuals sho

     

    The League of Women Voters is supporting a proposal which would impose a charge

     

    The lease agreement between the city of Portland and the Portland Sea Dogs inclu

     

    The Legislative Council has authorized a 3 percent cost-of-living increase, retr

     

    The Legislature approved a special allocation of $750,000 from the general fund

     

    The Legislature approved a stopgap measure to fund one more payroll at the state

     

    The Legislature authorized the state Bureau of Public Lands to sell a 1.8-acre p

     

    The Legislature in October 1992 adopted the fourth and largest reform of the sta

     

    The Legislature is considering a bill which would rquire major property owners t

     

    The legislature passed Mike Saxl and Rick Bennett's health-related bills this ye, Michaela M. Cavallaro

     

    The Legislature's Appropriations and Human Resources committees heard from welfa

     

    The Legislature's Appropriations Committee continued the budget debate, settling

     

    The Legislature's Appropriations Committee remained split along party lines over

     

    The Legislature's Appropriations Committee voted 7-6 in favor of maintaining the

     

    The Legislature's Appropriations Committee voted 9-4 along party lines to reject

     

    The Legislature's Appropriations Committee voted 9-4 to endorse a proposal to re

     

    The Legislature's Appropriations Committee voted to fund the General Assistance

     

    The Legislature's Appropriations Committee yesterday rejected Gov. John McKernan

     

    The Legislature's Banking and Insurance Committee hopes to restore health insura

     

    The Legislature's Banking and Insurance Committee yesterday approved five of nin

     

    The Legislature's committee on taxation heard from proponents of a plan to doubl

     

    The Legislature's decision to return to the state's complicated school-funding f

     

    The Legislature's Education Committee heard testimony Monday on ways to more equ

     

    The Legislature's Education Committee voted unanimously to keep funding for educ

     

    The Legislature's Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard criticism from en

     

    The Legislature's Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard from both support

     

    The Legislature's Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 13-0 in favor of

     

    The Legislature's Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a public hear

     

    The Legislature's Fisheries and Wildlife Committee voted 13-0 to endorse Ray B.

     

    The legislature's Housing and Economic Development Committee has said it opposes

     

    The Legislature's Housing and Economic Development Committee has targeted the bu

     

    The legislature's Human Resources Committee herd from restaurateurs who are divi

     

    The Legislature's Human Resources Committee was asked by the Maine Medical Assoc

     

    The Legislature's Judiciary Committee has delayed until next year action on the

     

    The Legislature's Judiciary Committee heard testimony supporting three bills bei

     

    The Legislature's Judiciary Committee unanimously approved legislation directing

     

    The Legislature's Judiciary Committee voted 7-3 to endorse a bill which would ad

     

    The Legislature's Judiciary Committe unanimously endorsed Portland lawyer Howard

     

    The Legislature's Legal Affairs Committee gave unanimous approval to a bill whic

     

    The Legislature's Legal Affairs Committee, which is currently charged with comin

     

    The Legislature's Legislative Committee voted 6-3 to allow the late-introduction

     

    The Legislature's Legislative Council on Sunday approved fewer than half the 400

     

    The Legislature's Marine Resources Committee rejected a bill that would have all

     

    The Legislature's Marine Resources Committee will consider a bill that would req

     

    The Legislature's Rules Committee voted Tuesday to deny to Maine's Indian lawmak

     

    The Legislature's State and Local Government Committee has said that the bills s

     

    The Legislature's State and Local Government Committee, meeting at Portland City

     

    The legislature's Taxation and Appropriations subcommittees met for the first ti

     

    The Legislature's taxation committee is scrutinizing state programs that extend, Mindy Favreau, Jackie Farwell, and Carol Coultas

     

    The Legislature's Taxation Committee opens hearings to examine all of the $600 m

     

    The Legislature's Taxation Committee unanimously recommended a bill which would

     

    The Legislature's Transportation Commitee is ready to repeal a law requiring whe

     

    The Legislature's Transportation Committee has endorsed the nomination of Debora

     

    The Legislature sustained McKernan vetoes of a measure to raise $1.2 million for

     

    The Legislature's Utilities Commission has unanimously recommended a change in t

     

    The Legislature voted to convert the Maine Science and Technology Commission int

     

    The Legislature will consider a bill which would force Maine Attorney General Mi

     

    The lengths to which Hollywood goes to enhance the "reality" of Maine towns--eve, Nathan Michaud

     

    The Levinsky family has prevailed in their suit against Wal-Mart. A January 199, Shirley Jacks

     

    The Lewiston Board of Education on Monday denied a request by Linda Lafrance of

     

    The Lewiston City Council voted 5-2 yesterday to impose a gay-rights ordinance.

     

    The Lewiston School Board, in a 6-3 vote, reversed an earlier decision and order

     

    The Lewiston School Committee on Tuesday voted 7-2 to approve a policy which man

     

    The Lewiston School Committee will tonight consider a policy introduced by schoo

     

    The lighthouse on Southern Island, off Tenant's harbor, was Andrew Wyeth's priva, Chris Crosman

     

    The Locavore piece on the wide array of cookbooks and food-related, Margo Mallar

     

    The Mad Horse Theatre, Maine's oldest professional ensemble, is seeking sponsor, Shirley Jacks

     

    The mailboat is the community boat of the islands. Descriptions and histories o, Jane Day

     

    The Maine Advisory Commission on Radioactive Waste voted unanimously to recommen

     

    The Maine Associated Press Broadcasters Association honored WCSH-TV of Portland

     

    The Maine Association of Nonprofits on May 8 presented its second annual Dirigo, Whit Richardson

     

    The Maine Association of Nonprofits reported that Maine nonprofits pay workers a, Taylor Smith

     

    The Maine Association of Retirees plans to file suit against the state because i

     

    The Maine attorney general's office accused MaineHealth, a consortium of healthc, Ruth Riddick

     

    The Maine Attorney General's office has filed a lawsuit in Kennebec County Super

     

    The Maine Attorney General's office has filed suit against Donald B. Glidden of

     

    The Maine Attorney General's Office has reached an out-of-court settlement with

     

    The Maine Attorney General's Office has received a number of inquiries about Cla

     

    The Maine Audubon Society is proposing to construct a 90-foot-long footbridge ac

     

    The Maine Audubon Society's Puffin Project has been successful in returning the

     

    The Maine Audubon Society will hold Save Our Birds Day on Saturday at the Gilsla

     

    The Mainebiz 2009 "Next" list of 10 Mainers who have the passion and vision to b, Mindy Favreau, Rebecca Goldfine, Whit Richardson, Carol Coultas, and Jackie Farwell

     

    The Mainebiz 2011 Book of Lists, with information and rankings related to busin, Editorial Staff Mainebiz

     

    The Mainebiz 2011 "Next" list of 10 Mainers who are having a significant impact, Jackie Farwell, Mindy Woerter, Rebecca Goldfine, Douglas Rooks, Carol Coultas, and Doug Kesseli

     

    The Mainebiz 2012 "Next" list of 10 Mainers who are having a significant impact, James McCarthy, Matt Dodge, Lori Valigra, Darren Fishell, and Derek Rice

     

    The Mainebiz Fact Book for 2009, a statistical guide to the Maine economy, inclu

     

    The Maine Board of Environmental Protection has dropped plans to impose state li

     

    The Maine Board of Environmental Protection on Wednesday voted 4-3 to approve Ba

     

    The Maine Bureau of Health has released statistics which show that 428 Mainers h

     

    The Maine Bureau of Insurance has denied a request by Blue Cross and Blue Shield

     

    The Maine Business Index shows only slight improvement in state economic output

     

    The Maine Centers for Women, Work and Community will push a gender pay equity me, Shirley Jacks

     

    The Maine Chamber of Commerce and Industry is joining several other groups press

     

    The Maine chapter of the National Organization for Women has registered oppositi

     

    The Maine chapter of the Nature Conservancy and the Saco Bay Rotary Club have em

     

    The Maine Chapter of The Nature Conservancy has achieved its fund-raising goal m

     

    The Maine Chapter of the Nature Conservancy has purchased 1,015 acres of the Wat

     

    The Maine chapter of the Telephone Pioneers of America today will distribute 217

     

    The Maine Civil Liberties Union and the group Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defe

     

    The Maine Civil Liberties Union has taken issue with Skowhegan's use of its poli

     

    The Maine Coalition for Excellence in Education has issued a 63-page report enti

     

    The Maine Coalition for the Homeless plans to file a class-action suit against G

     

    The Maine Coalition Opposed to Special Treatment of Homosexuality yesterday laun

     

    The Maine College of Art has raised $1.6 million to renovate the Porteous buildi

     

    The Maine College of Art is asking the city of Portland for a $1.8 million inter

     

    The Maine College of Art revealed its $6 million plan to transform the shuttered

     

    The Maine Comic Arts Festival, presented by Casablanca Comics, has added a day o, Matt Dodge

     

    The Maine Commission on Investment Capital issued its final report to the govern

     

    The Maine Committee to Study the Retirement System will meet for the first time

     

    The Maine congressional delegation has asked the secretary of defense to retain

     

    The Maine congressional delegation reported yesterday that congressional negotia

     

    The Maine Corrections Department is funding the non-profit group Youth Alternati

     

    The Maine Credit Union League has purchased a network of 65 automated bank telle

     

    The Maine Democratic Party has rejected Chairman James Mitchell's idea of holdin

     

    The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, the Biddeford-Saco C

     

    The Maine Department of Education has withheld education subsidy checks for 127

     

    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection chained the gates at John Emers

     

    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has approved construction of Ba

     

    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has denied an application from

     

    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has given conditional approval

     

    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has indicated that there are pr

     

    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection, responding to alarming levels

     

    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection says that nine wells in the Wes

     

    The Maine Department of Human Services has given preliminary approval to Mid Coa

     

    The Maine Department of Human Services has proposed relaxing the standards of th

     

    The Maine Department of Human Services has rested its case against Jan and Bruce

     

    The Maine Department of inland Fisheries and Wildlife reports an increase in the

     

    The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says hunters killed 28,820

     

    The Maine Department of Marine Resources is distributing pamphlets detailing cat

     

    The Maine Department of Marine Resources will lose its last three marine biologi

     

    The Maine Department of Transportation has dropped a controversial plan which wo

     

    The Maine Department of Transportation has provided funding to determine whether

     

    The Maine Department of Transportation is being criticized for its Transportatio

     

    The Maine Department of Transportation plans to test rumble strips, designed to

     

    The Maine Development Foundation's Leadership Maine program has chosen 45 manage

     

    The Maine Development Foundation will initiate Leadership Maine this fall, a pro

     

    The Maine Economic Growth Council held its first meeting Tuesday, and heard sugg

     

    The Maine Economic Growth Council was told by Governor John R. McKernan that its

     

    The Maine Employers' Mutual Insurance Co., which has been in operation at Larrab

     

    "The Maine food and agriculture index." 32 detailed Maine agricultural statisti, Scott Sutherland

     

    The Maine Food Producers Alliance hired its first full-time director, Valerie Ge, Whit Richardson

     

    The Maine Greens on Saturday turned down a plea for support from representatives

     

    The Maine Health Care Association, a powerful lobbying group representing 130 nu

     

    The Maine Houe of Representatives voted 72-60 in favor of a bill which would ban

     

    The Maine House and Senate approved a measure which will provide $230,000 to cov

     

    The Maine House and Senate gave final approval to a compromise spending plan for

     

    The Maine House failed to pass a Democratic version of a plan to redraw Maine's

     

    The Maine House of Representatives has decided not to consider a bill which woul

     

    The Maine House of Representatives narrowly defeated an attempt to remove John L

     

    The Maine House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a budget compromise t

     

    The Maine House of Representatives voted to maintain the ban on the plastic ring

     

    The Maine House of Representatives voted to overturn a law that required operati

     

    The Maine House voted 101-43 and the Senate voted 25-9 to approve a $3.2 billion

     

    The Maine House voted 116-0 and the Senate voted 30-0 in favor of legislation re

     

    The Maine House voted 66-60 to approve a bill extending the ban on smoking into

     

    The Maine House voted 71-59 and the Senate voted 21-13 in support of legislation

     

    The Maine House voted 72-59 to defeat a bill which would have relaxed restrictio

     

    The Maine House voted 77-67 in favor of a plan to combine the House and Senate i

     

    The Maine House voted 78-54 to defeat a bill to extend a personnel plan under wh

     

    The Maine House voted 81-52 to defeat Gov. McKernan's plan to deny increases in

     

    The Maine House voted 93-43 in favor of a bill that reaffirms a woman's right to

     

    The Maine House voted to award the Pittsfield-area House seat to a Democrat, eff

     

    The Maine House voted to limit the number of terms lawmakers may serve as leader

     

    The Maine Human Rights Commission issued its annual report to the governor and l

     

    The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled yesterday that the Maine Air National Gu

     

    The Maine Human Rights Commission will investigate a complaint brough against th

     

    The Maine International Trade Center has reestablished its foreign investment at, Carol Coultas

     

    The Maine Internet business RoadRunner Pro is encountering problems. Lengthy, d, Adam Day

     

    The Maine Island Trail, proposed conceptually in 1987, became reality in 1988., David R. Getchell

     

    The Maine Journal of Health Issues, a scientific journal to be published quarter

     

    The Maine Korean War Veterans organization gathered Saturday at the Maine Vetera

     

    The Maine Landscape and Nursery Association this year chose the Preble Chapel Ch

     

    The Maine Legislature adjourned its 1993 session yesterday. It will reconvene i

     

    The Maine Legislature approved a bill authorizing police to arrest stalkers and

     

    The Maine Legislature has put off the debate over a proposed Passamaquoddy India

     

    The Maine Legislature is set to forbid smoking in any enclosed building open to

     

    The Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance announced their annual awards, presenti

     

    The Maine Lobsterman's Association has given tentative approval to a resource ma

     

    The Maine Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority may further narrow the list of s

     

    The Maine Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority yesterday dropped Pittston and f

     

    The Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership is offering a new job training pro, Matt Dodge

     

    The Maine Medical Center and New England Rehabilitation Hospital want to build a

     

    The Maine Medical Center Research Institute is good business. It spends $15 mil, Michael Donahue

     

    The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and Museum on Fore Street, dedicated to

     

    The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum has planned the first Railfair, an

     

    The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum on Fore Street in Portland was the

     

    The Maine National Association for the Advancement of Colored People accused Cum

     

    The Maine National Guard has proposed closing its Portland and Saco armories due

     

    The Maine Nautical School, which later became the Maine Maritime Academy, gradua

     

    The Maine Office of Tourism has never quantified the economic impact of festival, Sara Donnelly

     

    The Maine Omnibus Opinion Survey, recently completed by Pan Atlantic Consultants, Shirley Jacks

     

    The Maine People's Alliance issued a report on Wednesday stating that the introd

     

    The Maine Potato Board has introduced a $70,000 sweepstakes called "The Maine Ev

     

    The Maine Potato Board will consider a proposed state rule which would require q

     

    The Maine potato industry has estimated that 900 million pounds of potatoes were

     

    The Maine Press Association's 1993 Better Newspaper Contest recognized the Maine

     

    The Maine Public Utilities Commission has approved a Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. p

     

    The Maine Public Utilities Commission has issued the final draft of its report o

     

    The Maine Public Utilities Commission has tentatively ruled that cable companies

     

    The Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) wants to stop regulating the Portlan

     

    The Maine Public Utilities Commission recently approved a 13 percent rate hike f

     

    The Maine Public Utility Commission is considering deregulation of the state's e, Chris Hyde

     

    The Maine salmon farming industry's lawsuit alleging dumping of Chilean salmon a, Christopher Hyde

     

    The Maine Science and Technology Commission, founded in 1986 as a way to promote

     

    The Maine Sea Coast Missionary Society, founded in 1905, delivers ministry to is, Stanley Haskell

     

    The Maine Seed Capital Tax Credit Program, administered by the Finance Authorit, Douglas Rooks

     

    The Maine Senate approved a bill to overturn a 1992 Maine Supreme Judicial Court

     

    The Maine Senate approved a bill which will keep Maine from becoming the only st

     

    The Maine Senate approved a bill which would increase the number of moose-huntin

     

    The Maine Senate gave initial approval to a bill which would cap the interest on

     

    The Maine Senate, in a 21-14 vote, gave preliminary approval to a bill that woul

     

    The Maine Senate voted 19-16 in favor of a mandatory seat-belt law which would a

     

    The Maine Senate voted 24-11 to approve Gov. John R. McKernan's bill to reaffirm

     

    The Maine Senate voted 31-0 to confirm Alfred R. Skolfield, 48, of Oakfield, to

     

    The Maine Senate voted 34-1 to extend the legislative session by five working da

     

    The Maine Senate yesterday voted to impose term limits in its rules on the Senat

     

    The Maine Sheriffs' Association will take no action to suspend a fund-raising ca

     

    The Maine Speakout Project trains volunteers to lead discussions on the challeng, Sara Walbridge

     

    The Maine Sports Hall of Fame will add seven new members, including Gene Letourn

     

    The Maine State Ballet has submitted a conditional bid of $100 to buy the centur

     

    The Maine State Ballet, the Portland Ballet, and Bangor's Robinson Ballet will a

     

    The Maine State Board of Education unanimously approved preliminary plans for a

     

    The Maine State Employees Association (MSEA) filed an amended complaint on Augus, James McCarthy

     

    The Maine State Harness Racing Commission has issued a permit to operate an off-

     

    The Maine State Housing Authority is offering the lowest interest rates in the a

     

    The Maine State Housing Authority will conduct public hearings around the state

     

    The Maine State Medical Examiner's officer has ruled that Lorraine Tedeschi comm

     

    The Maine State Museum is launching a project to preserve the state's collection

     

    The Maine State Police have 10 troopers who specialize in vehicle forensics and

     

    The Maine State Police have decided to take over the investigation into the drow

     

    The Maine State Police's Criminal Investigation Division has taken over the inve

     

    The Maine State Retirement System will buy $10 million worth of Finance Authorit

     

    The Maine State Retirement System will receive about $5 million as part of an $8

     

    The Maine Sunday Telegram and the Central Maine Sentinel were awarded first plac

     

    The Maine Sunday Telegram has received more than 200 telephone calls about the r

     

    The Maine Supreme Court yesterday upheld the double-murder conviction of Edward

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court, claiming that state law parallels federal law

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court denied a request by convicted murderer Richard

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court denied Central Maine Power Co.'s appeal of a $1

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has revised its preliminary political redistric

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the state must pay for all of Ja

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that York's new town charter, which w

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has thrown out the gross sexual assault convict

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the murder convictions of Wesley Kni

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is expected to rule soon on whether the mechani

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Friday ruled that the town of Gray is interf

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Monday denied the town of Freeport's appeal

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Monday nullified convictions against Anthony

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday denied a request by Dennis Dechaine

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday denied a claim by former Central M

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday unanimously upheld the convictions

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court overturned the rape conviction of former Univer

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court overturned the robbery and burglary with a fire

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court political redistricting plan created four Senat

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court rejected an appeal by Richard L. Wright of Bang

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled 5-2 that the state did not violate worker

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that Secretary of State G. William Diamon

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court sustained the appeal of Peoples Heritage Bank i

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court threw out the burglary conviction of James Hain

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a $188,000 summary judgment for United A

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a lower court's ruling ordering York Cou

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a ruling by Chief Justice Daniel Wathen

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a state regulation that requires Medicai

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld the murder conviction of Roy I. Abbott,

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court vacated the manslaughter conviction of Roy O'Ha

     

    The Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday upheld a state law that requires beve

     

    The Maine Teachers Association will meet this weekend for their annual assembly.

     

    The Maine Technology Institute at the Muskie School's updated report "Maine's Te, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    The Maine tourism industry has more jobs than it can fill, leading to the hiring, Michaela Cavallaro, Ray Bonenfant, and Michael Boland

     

    The Maine Turnpike Authority has been reviewing various traffic plans to stimula, Sara Walbridge

     

    The Maine Turnpike Authority receives no state or federal funds to pay for highw, Whit Richardson

     

    The Maine warden service is continuing its policy of performing random safety ch

     

    The Maine Warden Service is increasing its inspections of pleasure boaters on Ma

     

    The Maine Waste Management Agency and the Finance Authority of Maine, in a move

     

    The Maine Waste Management Agency is re-examining a state contract with Normande

     

    The Maine Waste Management Agency says recycling was responsible for adding $300

     

    The Maine Waste Management Agency terminated a contract it had with Normandeau A

     

    The Maine Waste Management Agency, the Maine Health Program, the Maine Health Ca

     

    The Maine Winter Sports Center, supported by the Libra Foundation, will help rev, Scott Andrews

     

    The Maine Women's Fund has invited several women's groups and organizations to a, Ruth Riddick

     

    The Maine Women's Fund is about to hold its third annual Women and Money confere, Sara Walbridge

     

    The Maine Workers' Compensation Board, composed of four management and four labo

     

    The Maine Working Waterfront Coalition helped get two referendum questions pas, David Tyler

     

    The Maine Youth Apprenticeship Program, based loosely on similar programs in Ger

     

    The Maine Youth Apprenticeship Program greeted its first class of 15 students in

     

    The Maine Youth Center now faces a $2 million budget shortfall if it is to stay

     

    The Maine Youth Center, which has no money to fund operations in the fourth quar

     

    The main lodge at a Bangor-Brewer YWCA day camp on Chemo Pond was leveled by fla

     

    The Margaret Chase Smith Quality Association, formerly the Maine Quality Center,, Christopher Hyde

     

    The Marine Advisory Council, a nine-member board which reviews proposed regulati

     

    The Marine Spill Response Corp. announced yesterday that within 15 months Portla

     

    The market is growing for clinical research organizations (CROs) like Gail Baill, Taylor Smith

     

    The Market Portland Task Force reports that parking is the main thing that keeps, Ruth Riddick

     

    The McKernan administration has acknowledged that a property-tax refund program

     

    The McKernan administration has unveiled four new plans for cuts in pension bene

     

    The McKernan administration is looking into charges that Superior Court nominee

     

    The McKernan administration is sponsoring a series of events next week to help b

     

    The McKernan administration's budget proposal calls for the closure of pre-relea

     

    The McKernan administration yesterday named 20 school staffers to the Cost-Savin

     

    "The measure of the year" in stories, trends, and statistics; including top stor, Editorial Staff Mainebiz

     

    The merger of Hannaford Brothers with Food Lion and Kash 'n Karry will be typica, Adam Day

     

    The merger of Unum and Provident insurance companies has been the source of many, Lance Tapley

     

    The Metro has asked the Portland Area Comprehensive Study committee to recommend

     

    The Midcoast Cooperative Borrowing Program, which links five libraries in Sagada

     

    The Midcoast Fishermen's Association was formed in Port Clyde as a nonprofit adv, Steve Kramar Eayrs, Libby Glen Laura, and Jennifer Litteral

     

    The morale of employees at Bath Iron Works's drydock facility in Portland has be

     

    The most recent proposal by the town of Cumberland to build a new Chebeague Isla

     

    The most recent storm dumped 10.8 inches of snow on Portland, bringing the seaso

     

    The Motel Condominium Task Force of the town of Wells is considering proposals t

     

    The Mt. Abram ski area in Locke Mills will be auctioned off on May 1. The 687-a

     

    The muralist Wyland is ready to begin painting his latest Whaling Wall, this one

     

    The muralist Wyland plans to turn the bare 450-foot-long west wall of the Bath I

     

    The muralist Wyland was slowed but not stopped by Tuesday's rain, which finally

     

    The Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine has publ, Whit Richardson

     

    The National Commission for the Renewal of American Democracy met Saturday at th

     

    The National Fisheries Institute in Washington and the New England Fisheries Dev

     

    The National Labor Relations Board has upheld a vote by workers at the Internati

     

    The National Marine Fisheries Service has pledged $250,000 to fund the first yea

     

    The National Trust for Historic Preservation has awarded a $1,000 grant to the F

     

    The National Undersea Research Center at the University of Connecticut at Avery

     

    The nation's "keepers," who act as stewards and watchdogs for rivers, bays and s

     

    The nation's only legislators who exclusively represent Indian tribes, Priscilla

     

    The Nature Conservancy is the largest private owner of Maine islands. Its islan, Kent Womack

     

    The Nature Consevancy recently acquired Knight Island in Eastern Bay of Jonespor

     

    The Navy awarded the six remaining contracts for Sealift cargo ships to National

     

    The Navy has given U.S. represenative Bill Zeliff of New Hampshire a commitment

     

    The Navy's plan to reduce its submarine force by the end of the decade, by 32 su

     

    The Neighborhood Action Coalition's Hotspot Cards program has failed to interest

     

    The Neighborhood Action Coalition will distribute "Hotspot Cards" to 1,000 homes

     

    The new administrator for the Small Business Administration, Karen Gordon Mills, Jackie Farwell

     

    The new biennial budget passed in June raises the tax exemption on estates from, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    The new channel under Casco Bay Bridge cannot be used until the piers of the old, Christopher Hyde

     

    The new Children's Museum of Maine in Portland opens today at 10 A.M. Very brie

     

    The new East End Children's Workshop on Portland's Munjoy Hill is the work of a, Ken Greenleaf

     

    The New England Fisheries Development Association is studying whether the Gulf o

     

    The New England Fisheries Management Council is expected to give its approval to

     

    The New England Fishery Management Council has failed to agree on a new lobster

     

    The New England Newspaper Association has chosen the Maine Sunday Telegram as th

     

    The New England Newspaper Association has named the Maine Sunday Telegram the be

     

    The New England Plant Conservation Program is a regional effort aimed at protect

     

    The New England WomenCenter in Portland still lacks the necessary credentials fo, Christopher Hyde

     

    The new Maine Employers' Mutual Insurance Co., created by the state as part of t

     

    The new Portland-South Portland bridge is expected to decrease traffic on Waterm, Sara Walbridge

     

    The newsest state estimate of local property values shows that taxable property

     

    The new seven-story University of Southern Maine library building has been open

     

    The new site of the Portland Flower Show, in the Portland Yacht Services buildin, Shirley Jacks

     

    The new Worker Rights Board of Eastern Maine was formed as a result of meetings, Douglas Rooks

     

    The next few months could prove decisive in defining who is entitled to mental-h

     

    The nine-member Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices wants t

     

    The Nonesuch River Golf Club says that at least half of its new 18-hole public g, Terri Winter Messer

     

    The non-profit group Restore: The North Woods and others have petitioned the U.S

     

    The non-profit organization Port Resources Inc. opened a group home on Colony St

     

    The North Atlantic Oscillation (NOA) appears to determine the location and stren, David D. Platt, Conkling Philip and, and W

     

    The Northern Forest Lands Council recently produced a report outlining the measu

     

    The November 17, 1995, opening of Borders book superstore in the Maine Mall set

     

    The November television ratings, published by Arbitron and A.C. Nielsen Co., cou

     

    The nuclear-powered submarine USS Pittsburg is scheduled to arrive at the Portsm

     

    The nuclear submarine USS Thresher sank in April 1963 with 129 crewmen aboard, a

     

    The number of bankruptcy filings in Portland dropped 44 percent in the first fou

     

    The number of fitness clubs in Maine increased from 109 in 2000 to 188 in 2005,, Whit Richardson

     

    The number of Maine farms is declining, but the number of women running farms in, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    The number of mortalities appearing in the Portland Press Herald in March was fa

     

    The number of serious crimes in Maine dropped last year for the first time since

     

    Theodora and Stephen McCormick of Swan Island met in 1945 in Hawaii, when he was, Sandra Dinsmore

     

    Theodore Ellenwood of Yarmouth has settled his suit with Exxon for $776,746.60,

     

    The official portrait of Civil War hero and former Maine Governor Joshua L. Cham

     

    The Old Orchard Beach Town Council awarded businessman Archie St. Hilaire the co

     

    The Old Orchard Beach Town Council has voted unanimously to bring rock concerts

     

    The Old Orchard Beach Town Council is nearing an agreement with a promoter which

     

    The Old Orchard Beach Town Council unanimously adopted an ordinance which forbid

     

    The Old Orchard Beach Town Council voted unanimously to pass a permanent ordinan

     

    The Old Orchard Beach Town Council yesterday placed a 60-day moratorium on new b

     

    The opening day of the trial of South Portland teacher Joseph D. Emmons, accused

     

    The opening of the Maine Mall's sixth anchor store has been pushed back from Nov

     

    The opening of the new Children's Museum of Maine will not be until Saturday, bu

     

    The opponents of Lewiston's new gay-rights ordinance have asked the state attorn

     

    The ordeal that ended when the House of Representatives narrowly defeated a call

     

    The organization Maine Citizens for The Tax Brake has launched a petition drive

     

    The outcomes of two recent Maine conflict-of-interest cases highlight the influe, Randy Billings

     

    "The Outdoor Issue." A handful of Maine public relations firms sell national fi, Scott Sutherland

     

    "The Outdoor Issue." Overall, Maine's golf industry, like the nation's, is stro, Devin Wilson

     

    "The Outdoor Issue." Several chambers of commerce and the non-profit Eastern Ma, Mike Woelflein

     

    "The Outdoor Issue." The archetypal Maine vacation image of a couple serenely p, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    The Outer Islands Teaching and Learning Collaborative (TLC) was created by veter, Anne Bardaglio

     

    The owner and general manager of Yarmouth Rubbish & Recycling were indicted yest

     

    The owner of the Pepperclub restaurant in Portland explains how to make lobster, Eddie Fitzpatrick

     

    The owners of many small businesses in Maine are discovering that service pays.

     

    The Ozone Transport Commission, created in 1990 to develop a plan to deal with a

     

    The panel set up by the McKernan administration to study school efficiency has f

     

    The Paper Industry Information Office, which represents Maine's 16 paper mills,

     

    The parents of Jonathan Johnson, accused of trying to blow up his father's car,

     

    The parents of Mark Reed, who was murdered on Thanksgiving Day 1982, are fightin

     

    The peat-to-power plant in Deblois shut down yesterday after the owner failed to

     

    The Peer Leader Program, a non-profit substance-abuse prevention group in Portla

     

    The Penobscot Indians are claiming ownership of the islands above Greater Northe

     

    The Penobscot Nation has announced it will revive high-stakes bingo this spring

     

    The Penobscot School's "French in the Woods" program hosted 31 students at the T

     

    The Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor, now in its second year under the direct, William Steele

     

    The Peoples Beach to Beacon 10-kilometer race is a chance for 5,000 runners to c, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    The planned construction of a new, 45,000-square-foot headquarters for Healthsou

     

    The planned extension of Downeaster train service to Freeport and Brunswick by N, Sara Anne Donnelly

     

    The Portland advertising and public relations firm of Holt, Hughes & Stamell has

     

    The Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee has formed a bicycle gr

     

    The Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Study is funding a project with f

     

    The Portland area has been chosen as a test market for the LIPA Dog Toilet. The

     

    The Portland Boxing Club in Morrill's Corner has brought amateur boxing back to

     

    The Portland Bridge, scheduled to be demolished after the $165 million replaceme

     

    The Portland business community has been trying to rally support for the Maine's, Paul Badeau

     

    The Portland chapter of the American Red Cross has raised $70,000 to assist with

     

    The Portland City Council appointed Ralph H. B. Nodine to the Portland Housing A

     

    The Portland City Council approved spending $9.2 million for road and sewer impr

     

    The Portland City Council decided early this morning not to accept any more half

     

    The Portland City Council gave qualified support to a move to build an aquarium

     

    The Portland City Council got its first look at a proposal to build a passenger

     

    The Portland City Council has asked the state for the authority to do its own re

     

    The Portland City Council is expected to consider allowing ice cream trucks back

     

    The Portland City Council, on a 7-1 vote, selected the First Atlantic Corp. prop

     

    The Portland City Council on Monday denied a liquor license renewal to the Seame

     

    The Portland City Council on Monday gave unanimous preliminary support to a "par

     

    The Portland City Council on Monday unanimously approved a liquor license for Zo

     

    The Portland City Council on Monday will be asked to approve a lease and accompa

     

    The Portland City Council on Monday will consider repurchasing the Cummings Scho

     

    The Portland City Council on Wednesday held a public hearing on financing the pa

     

    The Portland City Council postponed action on a controversial measure which woul

     

    The Portland City Council rejected a $26,800 housing grant for the Portland West

     

    The Portland City Council's Community Development Committee is launching a revie

     

    The Portland City Council's Finance Committee has recommended that $90,000 be ad, Kate Bucklin

     

    The Portland City Council's finance committee will recommend rejection of a prop

     

    The Portland City Council's Public Safety Committee is proposing a package of fi

     

    The Portland City Council's recent 10-week moratorium on most chain eateries and, Chris Churchill

     

    The Portland City Council tonight will consider a plan which would give parking

     

    The Portland City Council unanimously approved an ordinance ending the 27-year b

     

    The Portland City Council unanimously approved a plan to provide interest-free h

     

    The Portland City Council voted 6-1 in favor of creating the Industry and Commer

     

    The Portland City Council voted 6-2 in favor of eliminating the $30 fee the city

     

    The Portland City Council voted 6-3 against calling an election in November to a

     

    The Portland City Council voted 6-3 in favor of renewing the liquor license of t

     

    The Portland City Council voted 7-2 against a proposal that would have done away

     

    The Portland City Council voted last night to consider proposals for 34 acres th

     

    The Portland City Council voted unanimously Monday night to spend $318,000 to de

     

    The Portland City Council, voting 7-2, passed a $154.7 million municipal budget

     

    The Portland City Council will consider a measure on Monday which will increase

     

    The Portland City Council will consider a proposal Monday which would require do

     

    The Portland City Council will consider on Monday whether to renew the liquor li

     

    The Portland City Council will consider zoning proposals next week that would li

     

    The Portland City Council will get its first look at a proposal to acquire an un

     

    The Portland City Council will on September 8 consider buying the property at 37

     

    The Portland City Council yesterday appointed a committee to oversee the design

     

    The Portland City Council yesterday deleted a clause from the lease of Hadlock f

     

    The Portland City Council yesterday voted to raise parking fines from $5.00 to $

     

    The Portland City Hall Auditorium Renovations Building Committee heard from an a

     

    The Portland Comprehensive Transportation Plan Advisory Committee has issued an

     

    The Portland Concert Association and Portland Symphony Orchestra are working to, Michael Donahue

     

    The Portland Conservatory of Music is entering its second year of courses at 44, Chris Hyde

     

    The Portland Downtown District, formerly the Downtown Improvement District, has

     

    The Portland Downtown Improvement District marked its first anniversary Thursday

     

    The Portland Exposition building is host to a weekly Sunday flea market, where u, Abby Zimet

     

    The Portland Fish Exchange has allowed lobstermen to auction their catch directl, Wayne Curtis

     

    The Portland Fish Exchange must cope with a decline in groundfish stocks, which

     

    The Portland Housing Authority's board of commissioners will decide on January 2

     

    The Portland Housing Authority voted unanimously to fight a National Rifle Assoc

     

    The Portland International Jetport is considering construction of a new cargo bu

     

    The Portland Jetport is building customs facilities for possible direct flights, Chris Hyde

     

    The Portland metropolitan statistical area remains the largest such area in Main

     

    The Portland Museum of Art will show at least 50 of Andrew Wyeth's "Helga" works

     

    The Portland New Co., which has been on Western Avenue in South Portland since t

     

    The Portland Observatory Restoration Trust is raising money to restore the Munjo, Ken Greenleaf

     

    The Portland Opera Reperatory Theater's production of "Tosca" has raised controv, Michael Donahue

     

    The Portland Pirates have announced a season-long campaign called "Goals for a G

     

    The Portland Pirates, Maine's new American Hockey League team, received a one-ye

     

    The Portland Pirates, Portland's new American Hockey League team, yesterday anno

     

    The Portland Planning Board approved major renovations to Hadlock Field, removin

     

    The Portland Planning Board gave final approval to a Post Office Park plan that

     

    The Portland Planning Board heard details for a railroad museum to be located at

     

    The Portland Planning Board heard nearly two hours of testimony from both suppor

     

    The Portland Planning Board on Tuesday voted 4-2 to deny a proposal by Pharos Ho

     

    The Portland Planning Board reviewed the city's proposal for the refitting of Ha

     

    The Portland Police Department has recently hired Moses Sebunya, 33, a Ugandan i

     

    The Portland Police Department has started a campaign to make Monument Square a

     

    The Portland Police Department is now one of only 250 law enforcement agencies o

     

    The Portland Police Department, the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department and t

     

    The Portland Public Library is about halfway through the first phase of its reno, David Carkhuff

     

    The Portland Public Library is holding a series of open houses and community dis

     

    The Portland Public Library is on target to having its second consecutive record, Kate Bucklin

     

    The Portland Public Library is temporarily moving its children's collection to t, Randy Billings

     

    The Portland Public Library kicked off a membership drive for the Friends of the, Casey Conley

     

    The Portland Public Library's annual used book sale might be the last one that t, Curtis Robinson

     

    The Portland Public Library's relocated Munjoy Hill branch opened its doors yest, Peter Smith

     

    The Portland Public Library will close its Main library for two weeks beginning

     

    The Portland Public Library will display Bayside Trail public art bench designs, David Carkhuff

     

    The Portland Public Library will host Draw-a-Thon III, a day of print production

     

    The Portland Public Market, off the beaten path on Preble Street, was expected t, Rebecca Zicarelli

     

    The Portland real estate boom of the 1980s began to collapse by 1988, as busines, Chris Hyde

     

    The Portland School Board's Finance Subcommitte will hold the first of two publi

     

    The Portland School Committee and the Portland Teachers Association reached a te

     

    The Portland School Committee is scheduled to vote tonight on whether to accept

     

    The Portland School Committee re-examined the plan for redistricting intended to

     

    The Portland School Committee unanimously approved a $52.04 million school budge

     

    The Portland School Committee unanimously approved a redistricting plan for elem

     

    The Portland School Committee voted 8-1 to approve a 13-week, voluntary AIDS cou

     

    The Portland School Committee will begin its yearly review of Superintendent Tho

     

    The Portland School Committee will hold two public hearings this week on the sup

     

    The Portland School Committee will vote Sept. 3 on a contract that would allow t, Randy Billings

     

    The Portland School Department's Human Sexuality and Family Living Advisory Boar

     

    The Portland school system currently has 31 Somali students, with 17 more expect

     

    The Portland school system is among five in the country that have been chosen fo

     

    The Portland Sea Dogs Double-A team have announced an official affiliation with

     

    The Portland Sea Dogs have announced that Carlos Tosca, 39, has been named the t

     

    The Portland Stage Company has exceeded its Challenge Campaign by $617, raising

     

    The Portland String Quartet, formed in 1969, has survived for 25 years with the

     

    The Portland Taxpayers Association, which has previously been content to act as

     

    The Portland Water District has launched a $52,000 study to assess the impact of

     

    The Portland Water District has named the David W. Whitehead family of White's P

     

    The Portland Water District, Regional Waste Systems Inc. and the city of South P

     

    The Portland Water District wants a 27 percent rate increase, which, if approved

     

    The Portland West Neighborhood Council, which recently was denied a recommendati

     

    The Port of Portland depends on its ship pilots to guide inbound commerce throug, John N. Cole

     

    The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has asked the Navy for permission to eliminate 800

     

    The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery is expected to be placed on the federal

     

    The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, which was left off the military base-c

     

    The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery will lay off almost 700 workers this fa

     

    The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is not on the list of military bases that Pentagon

     

    The Portsmouth Naval shipyard's Dry Dock 2, a 680-foot, $2 million enclosed dry

     

    The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was added to the list of military bases being cons

     

    The president of the state's technical college system will ask for one of the la

     

    The President's Council of Sustainable Development selected the "Color Me Green"

     

    The Presumpscot River swelled to flood stage, but officials in Gorham and Westbr

     

    The Presumpscot River, which wanders 25 miles from Sebago Lake to Casco Bay, wil

     

    The producers of "Rescue 911," a network television show, would like to use the

     

    The proposed Family Security Act, an ambitious plan to create a Canadian-style h

     

    The proposed federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act,, Robert M. Cook

     

    The proposed new facility for Portland's Bayside neighborhood will be called the, Shirley Jacks

     

    The proposed Scarborough obscenity ordinance has librarians and library trustees

     

    The prosecutor trying Jacqueline Bevins of Cape Neddick for the murder of her hu

     

    The Public Utilities Commission and the state Office of Public Advocate have fil

     

    The Public Utilities Commission has announced that it will review only part of C

     

    The Public Utilities Commission has approved a 5 percent increase as part of a c

     

    The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) issued a ruling Wednesday that would lower

     

    The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) today will hear arguments on whether to p

     

    The pulp and paper industry is increasingly doing more business with foreign cli, Randy Billings

     

    The purchase of a minority interest by Education Management Corporation (EMC) ma, Christopher Hyde

     

    The Rainbow Business and Professional Organization, founded September 1, is a 52

     

    The Ravenhill siblings, Amanda, 23, Brendan, 27, and Geoffrey, 29, started Isles, Cyrus Moulton

     

    "There and Back" piece about the "good old days" of banking and riding on passen, John McDonald

     

    "There and back" piece by John McDonald, humorist and storyteller, on bartering,, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece by Maine author and humorist John McDonald, who delves in, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece commenting in light-hearted fashion on one of Maine's lar, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece commenting, in tongue-in-cheek style, on foggy Maine weat, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece commenting on Maine's mailbox art movement, which is espe, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece describing, in tongue-in-cheek style, how Mainers have th, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece offering a guide to holiday shopping, with a Down East tw, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece on Lemuel Moody and the Observatory he built more than 20, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece on the high value of waterfront property in Maine, noting, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece on the legendary Maine soft drink, Moxie; its past, its p, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece on the venerable Maine tradition of dump picking, which i, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece on Tink Billings' long-gone used car lot, which is freque, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece on Yankee ingenuity, recounting the story of Capt. Willia, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece recalling, in light-hearted tones, the author's first rea, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece recalling the era when doctors in Maine made house calls,, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece recounting author John McDonald's childhood story about t, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece recounting author John McDonald's early work experiences, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece recounting author John McDonald's first trip to Lewiston-, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece recounting author John McDonald's humorous attempt to mak, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece recounting, in light-hearted fashion, the failed birdhous, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece reflecting on growing up with old-fashioned, Down East te, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece reflecting on how Maine real estate has changed over the, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece reminiscing about changes in the midcoast region, and com, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece reminiscing about the traditional "curious drive-by," whe, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece telling the tragic Down East tale of Sherman and Edna Ame, John McDonald

     

    "There and Back" piece with light-hearted commentary on the differences between, John McDonald

     

    There are about 240 Maine investment clubs, and they favor online investing more, Anne Rugh

     

    There are three proposals to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals on a 15, Sean Donahue

     

    The recent confrontation between Native Americans and New Agers in Windham was a

     

    The recent controversy over how the city of Portland went about updating its vot

     

    The recent Federal Communications Commission order that cable television prices

     

    The recent indictment of Fiber Materials Inc. of Biddeford on charges of illegal

     

    The recent real estate boom fueled by summer residents has hit locals like Harps, Scott Sutherland

     

    The recent recall of millions of toys made with lead paint in China has been a b, Samantha Depoy-Warren

     

    The recent sale of 247,000 acres of timberland in northern New England by James

     

    The recent South Portland revaluation has resulted in a 47 percent increase in t

     

    The recent spell of hot and dry weather has created a major fire hazard througho

     

    "The Recession(?) Survival Guide," with tips for businesses on how to survive du, Sara Donnelly

     

    The record attendance at the latest Maine Real Estate & Economic Development Ass, Paul Badeau

     

    The redevelopment of Marginal Way in Portland is under question, and the new tra, Sam Smith

     

    The regional office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored P

     

    The Regional Transportation Program's volunteer driver corps has grown from two

     

    The Reiche branch of the Portland Public Library is slated for closure as part o, Kate Bucklin

     

    There is a growing popularity in Maine of study circles which meet to discuss et

     

    There is a growing trend among Maine high schools to schedule four 75- to 80-min

     

    The Republican caucus has hired Scientific Marketing and Analysis, a firm belong

     

    Theresa Alvarez, 21, whose 2-year-old daughter Ashley perished in the fatal Bidd

     

    Theresa Bachelder, a candidate for councilor in Portland's District 4, has filed

     

    Theresa Dannemiller, 29, of Portland, died Sunday of AIDS. Dannemiller, whose d

     

    Theresa McNulty, the wife of a Maine Correctional Center inmate, has created T.R

     

    The results of an 18-month study of the city's transportation system and a plan

     

    The Rev. Albert Earle, 74, delivered his last sermon Sunday at the Steep Falls B

     

    The Rev. David Weber, of Portland, who works with the poor and unemployed, discu

     

    The Reverend Elizabeth Morris, 46, a Protestant minister at the University of Ma

     

    The Rev. J. Grant Swank Jr. of the Church of the Nazarene in Windham, in a speec

     

    The Rev. John Audibert, pastor of Holy Cross Church in Lewiston, has resigned hi

     

    The Rev. John Audibert, pastor of Holy Cross Parish in Lewiston since 1985, is t

     

    The Rev. John W. Keegan, 56, president of Cheverus High School from 1980 to 1983

     

    The Rev. Marcel L. Robitaille, currently on leave from his post as pastor of St.

     

    The Rev. Maurice N. Morin, facing a lawsuit accusing him of negligence for havin

     

    The Rite Aid drug chain has sought approval to buy a large parcel of land by the

     

    The Riverton Community Association (RCA) has gathered 2,000 signatures in suppor, Curtis Robinson

     

    The robust economy and low unemployment have left many Maine employers scramblin, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    The Rockland-based Farnsworth Museum ended its fiscal year roughly $10,000 in th, Taylor Smith

     

    The Saco City Council approved $3,000 for sand and labor to help Camp Ellis resi

     

    The Saco City Council unanimously adopted rules yesterday that will ban viewing

     

    The sailing programs at the Center Board Yacht Club in Cape Elizabeth, Southern, Christopher Hyde

     

    The sale of Dexter Shoe Co. to Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seen

     

    The salvage of mercury from the wreck of the cargo ship Empire Knight has report

     

    The Sanford Police Department has received a $19,000 Community Policing Program

     

    The Save Loring Committee, formed 17 years ago to save Loring Air Force Base fro

     

    The Scarborough Board of Education has endorsed a proposal by Zoe Austin, the to

     

    The Scarborough Coastal Pollution Committee is undertaking a study of the Scarbo

     

    The Scarborough Community Relations Team of New England has donated a set of fiv

     

    The Scarborough engineering firm KADY International has developed a plan that sh, Michael Donahue

     

    The Scarborough Land Conservation Trust opposes plans by Camp Ketcha in Scarboro

     

    The Scarborough Police Department is retiring Bandit, its 9 1/2 -year-old police

     

    The Scarborough school district has exceeded a state limit on school debt paymen

     

    The Scarborough Town Council decided to contest a Superior Court ruling giving D

     

    The Scarborough Town Council has granted a right-of-way across town property to

     

    The Scarborough Town Council has toughened the town's firearms law, making it il

     

    The Scarborough Town Council voted 5-2 to send a proposed obscenity ordinance ba

     

    The Scarborough Town Council voted unanimously to let stand its mass-gathering o

     

    The Scarborough Town Council yesterday adopted regulations defining where porn s

     

    "The Science of Maine Life" piece on Canada geese.

     

    The Seacoast Shipyard Association, a local lobbying organization representing th

     

    The Seacoast Shipyard Association, the independent lobbying arm of the Portsmout

     

    The seafood market is changing and some lobstermen are finding innovative ways t, David D. Platt

     

    The Sears Island cargo port was first proposed in 1978, and has since cost taxpa

     

    The Seavey Street Association, tired of a group of 20 teenagers who had been cau

     

    The secession of Long Island from Portland earlier this year has raised talks of

     

    The second annual Native American Appreciation Day will be held today and tomorr

     

    The second in a two part series on Bath Iron Works' plans to retrain its workers

     

    The second major snowfall in five days pulled down power lines and slowed traffi

     

    The Seeds of Peace Program at Camp Powhatan in Oxford, which brought 46 Arab and

     

    The Senate unanimously confirmed Pennsylvanian Thomas L. Welch as the new chairm

     

    The separateness of islands and islanders' reliance on ferry transportation impo, David Tyler

     

    The ship Braer, which spilled 85,000 gallons of oil onto the shores of Scotland', David D. Platt

     

    The Shipyard Employees' Association of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard have had 64

     

    The shortage of primary-care physicians is a national problem, but it is especia

     

    The shutdown of Engineered Materials of Maine in Bangor late last year was an un, Sean Donahue

     

    The sixth annual Arena-Tilton Park Street 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament in Kenneb

     

    The six-year old Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Souther

     

    The Society of Newspaper Design recently awarded the Maine Sunday Telegram a bro

     

    The Sohelya Hair Salon on Temple Street was heavily damaged by fire Tuesday morn

     

    The Songo Locks School cost the state $5 million, has a computer in every classr

     

    The southern Maine coast has become a national hotspot in the rapid expansion of, Scott Sutherland

     

    The Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission sponsored a workshop to help tow

     

    The South Portland Board of Education has adopted tough guidelines for handling

     

    The South Portland Board of Education has yielded to parents' concerns and voted

     

    The South Portland Board of Education yesterday decided that home-schooled child

     

    The South Portland City Council gave preliminary approval to laws that would pro

     

    The South Portland City Council has voted to discontinue the annual spring picku

     

    The South Portland City Council is considering an indecency law that would ban t

     

    The South Portland City Council is considering whether to spend $60,000 to hire

     

    The South Portland City Council is expected to make a decision tomorrow on wheth

     

    The South Portland City Council last night gave preliminary approval to an ordin

     

    The South Portland City Council on Monday voted 4-3 against passing an ordinance

     

    The South Portland City Council on Monday voted unanimously to accept as city pr

     

    The South Portland City Council on Wednesday voted 4-3 to enact an obscenity ord

     

    The South Portland City Council plans to listen to resident concerns about the r

     

    The South Portland City Council refused a request from some members of the South

     

    The South Portland City Council voted 4-3 in favor of a new public indecency law

     

    The South Portland City Council voted 6-0 to postpone a proposed anti-nudity ord

     

    The South Portland City Council voted 6-1 to institute a 911 service in the city

     

    The South Portland City Council voted to accept a donation of $10,000 and approx

     

    The South Portland City Council voted to repave the Country Gardens neighborhood

     

    The South Portland City Council will hold its first public meeting on the 1993-9

     

    The South Portland City Council will on Monday decide the fate of the dam in Cla

     

    The South Portland City Council yesterday tentatively approved adding $450,000 t

     

    The South Portland High School marching band has grown from 18 playing members f

     

    The South Portland High School marching band outperformed second-place Westbrook

     

    The South Portland Parks & Recreation Department has new plans underway. The fi, Sara Walbridge

     

    The South Portland Planning Board gave final approval for a sixth anchor store a

     

    The South Portland Police Department has issued the first edition of its Collect

     

    The South Portland police department in September will start giving schoolchildr

     

    The South Portland Police Department instituted a new policy Tuesday which limit

     

    The South Portland Police Department, which last week said it had no written pol

     

    The South Portland Republican city committee elected officers this week but the

     

    The Special Commission to Review the Electoral Process, which is studying Maine'

     

    The Sporting News has ranked the University of Maine at Orono's hockey team the

     

    The Sprague Corporation of Cape Elizabeth will operate the state's popular park

     

    The Springdale Farm Tack Shop is marketing a line of blaze-orange nylon vests fo

     

    The spring of 1993 was one of the best ever for Maine whale watchers and researc, David D. Platt

     

    The Standish Building Committee has recommended an expansion of the current Town

     

    The Standish home of Alfred McIntosh Sr., 40, was well known for being the site

     

    The Standish Town Council voted 5-2 in favor of a non-binding agreement in princ

     

    The Standish Town Council voted 7-0 against razing the 170-year-old Federal-styl

     

    The state Advisory Commission on Radioactive Waste will respond to a recent fede

     

    The state and its loggers, sportsmen, and environmentalists are waiting to see t, Christopher Hyde

     

    The state-appointed Year Round Education task force will spend the next year stu

     

    The state Attorney General's Office has announced that it will not pursue crimin

     

    The state Attorney General's Office has filed a civil rights complaint against f

     

    The state Attorney General's Office has filed a civil rights suit against Thomas

     

    The state attorney general's office received a restraining order barring several

     

    The state Attorney General's Office will not seek a murder conviction against 10

     

    The state Board of Arbitration and Conciliation this week ordered that former Yo

     

    The state Board of Environmental Protection adopted California's tough standards

     

    The state Board of Property Tax Review last week decided that the city of Bath h

     

    The state budget approved by the Legislature yesterday will, if signed by Gov. M

     

    The state Bureau of Employment Security has ruled that Leon Planche, fired from

     

    The state Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices recommended t

     

    The state Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices refused to la

     

    The state crime lab in Augusta has won notice in the law enforcement profession

     

    The state Department of Education must cut $3.8 million to achieve a mandated 5

     

    The state Department of Environmental Protection has issued a notice of violatio

     

    The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered a 21-day shutdown o

     

    The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered Glowood Farms of Ya

     

    The state Department of Environmental Protection has signaled its support for th

     

    The state Department of Environmental Protection has turned up traces of dichlor

     

    The state Department of Environmental Protection is proposing new rules for the, Jess Kilby

     

    The state Department of Environmental Protection is requiring all Maine municipa

     

    The state Department of Marine Resources has banned the gathering of mussels, wh

     

    The state elections commission yesterday reaffirmed the November elections of Re

     

    The state General Services Bureau has agreed to hold up a contract awarded to Sy

     

    The state has asked hospitals to provide treatment once offered at the Augusta M

     

    The state has filed a civil rights lawsuit against four youths who are members o

     

    The state has withdrawn its offer to sell a 40-acre parcel of land to Portland f

     

    The state Highway Safety Bureau said 214 lives were lost on Maine highways in 19

     

    The state is asking Kennebec County to pay the $18,650 in overtime racked up by

     

    The state Land Use Regulation Commission has granted water-quality certification

     

    The state of Maine owes New England Telephone an estimated $4 million unpaid pho

     

    The State of Maine owns more than 200 islands in Casco Bay, most of which lack s, Marshall Wiebe

     

    The State of Maine Victory Platoon was created on June 30, 1943, when 107 17-yea

     

    The state plans to spend $50,000 to promote Total Quality Mangement, a managemen

     

    The state recently discovered violations at many of the community-care homes ope

     

    The state's Advisory Commission on Radioactive Waste yesterday voted to protest

     

    The state's official portrait of Joshua Chamberlain, four-time governor of Maine

     

    The state's plan to continue privatizing liquor stores is in jeopardy because of

     

    The state superintendent of insurance has approved several programs which will o

     

    The state Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction of Alfred Thibeault of Dixf

     

    The state won't file criminal negligence charges against the owner of a building

     

    The Stella Ann, a lobster boat owned by Bennie Beal, was the clear winner of the

     

    The stock market downturn that sent some unemployed business people out looking, Sean Donahue

     

    The Stonington Flying Service serves as ambulance, mail delivery, and ferry repl, Peter Ralston

     

    The Storage and Transport Subcommittee that will tour the decommissioned Maine Y, Jim Kozubek

     

    The story of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secret meeting with Winston Churc, Harry Gratwick

     

    The success of the Stein Gallery in Portland, and of the Dale Chihuly glass exhi, Chris Hyde

     

    The Sunset Park Community Club, an organization of homeowners in South Portland'

     

    The Sustainable Bioplastics Council of Maine is a trade association formed in 20, Matt Dodge

     

    The Swan's Island lobster trap limit has been surprisingly popular with lobsterm

     

    The team of Brian W. Walls, 18, of South Portland, and Andrew McGarey, 18, of Go

     

    The Telford Group and Volvo Aero share a hanger for used airplane parts at the f, Devin Wilson

     

    The temperature in Portland hit a record 93 degrees on Wednesday as the state wa

     

    The ten states, including Maine, that comprise the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initi, Seth Harkness

     

    "The Tenth Voice" piece on the city of Portland's proposed budget, with a call f, Orlando Delogu

     

    The Texas Senate approved an agreement to accept radioactive waste from Maine an

     

    The Texas state Legislature is considering a bill that would allow states such a

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on a group of social entrepreneurs committed to creatin, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on Cobscook Community Learning Center in Trescott. The, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on collaborative efforts among Maine nonprofits, such a, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on how foundations are engaging in "mission investing,", Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on how Maine's nonprofits are struggling with rising co, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector," piece on how MAPS Worldwide, formerly Maine Adoption Placeme, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on how some Maine nonprofits are finding success by mer, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on Maine's leadership programs, including the Maine Dev, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on nonprofits in Maine that are beating the odds and su, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on St. Albans-based Skills Inc., led by Tom Davis, whic, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on the effects of the recession on Maine nonprofits. S, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on the Maine Community Foundation's 25/25 Nonprofit End, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on the nonprofit community on Mount Desert Island, home, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    "The Third Sector" piece on York County Shelter Programs and executive director, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    The threat of a lawsuit by environmental activists has led Millbridge-based Jasp, Sean Donahue

     

    The Tompson Tavern in Standish, home to the Standish Telephone Co. headquarters,

     

    The Tom Veilleux Gallery in Farmington is one of the most successful art galleri, Ken Greenleaf

     

    The Top Gun program, a project of the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Developme, Lori Valigra

     

    The top issue in Gov. John Baldacci's re-election campaign will be Maine's busin, Chris Churchill

     

    The town of Atkinson and 39 other Maine communities already have clear-cutting b, Chris Hyde

     

    The town of Brunswick is installing a mixed-fuel boiler as one of two systems at

     

    The town of Cape Elizabeth has agreed to pay $5,000 to William Blige, who accuse

     

    The town of Cumberland's Conservation Commission has issued its inventory of coa

     

    The town of Cumberland will soon have its first-ever traffic light, to be situat

     

    The town of Freeport has received the approval of the federal Economic Developme

     

    The town of Freeport's Elderly Property Tax Assistance Program is designed to se

     

    The town of Jay and the Jay School Department, named as co-defendants in a civil

     

    The town of Lovell has reached an agreement with the National Trust for Historic

     

    The Town of Scarborough has numerous streets with identical or similar names, wh

     

    The town of Scarborough has renewed its franchise agreement with Public Cable Co

     

    The Town of Scarborough is considering purchasing three private residences to pr

     

    The town of Standish and the Portland Water District have agreed to a land trade

     

    The town of Unity is on the state's list of potential sites for a low-level nucl

     

    The town of Windham's High School Facilities Committee will today unveil a repor

     

    The town of Yarmouth is faced with the prospect of a revaluation which would shi

     

    The town of Yarmouth's Economic Development Advisory Committee is looking at way

     

    The town of York is planning to install 24 road signs bearing both miles-per-hou

     

    The towns of Cumberland and Falmouth are studying a proposal to merge their poli

     

    The Toy Library in Lewiston, located in the basement of the United Baptist Churc

     

    The Trevett post office serves the three Boothbay communities of Hodgdon, Sawyer

     

    The trial of four defendants charged in the June 1992 beating death of Randal B.

     

    The trial of Sherrie Cotton, 20, of Auburn, has been moved to Franklin County fr

     

    The Trust for Public Land, a national conservation group which acquires land for

     

    The Turnpike Interchange Advisory Committee last week unveiled five options for

     

    The two-year state budget that took effect July 1 includes $6.9 million in Gener

     

    The United States Congress appropriated $1 million to build a new Edmund S. Musk, John N. Cole

     

    The United States Supreme Court has refused to consider a case involving reducti

     

    The United States Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Ernest C. Brown, 73, a form

     

    The United Way is using stock photographs on three posters which it has distribu

     

    The United Way of Greater Portland has exceeded its 1993 fund-raising goal by 3.

     

    The United Way of Greater Portland this week began distributing $3.57 million to

     

    "The Universal Notebook" piece mentioning Portland Public Library's 50th anniver, Edgar Allen Beem

     

    "The Universal Notebook" piece on "the life and death of libraries," in which Ed, Edgar Allen Beem

     

    "The Universal Notebook" piece on the newly renovated Portland Public Library, w, Edgar Allen Beem

     

    The University of Maine accepted the Hutchinson Center, a new, computer-furnishe, Lance Tapley

     

    The University of Maine and University of New Hampshie Sea Grant College Program

     

    The University of Maine at Orono is ending a youth conservation program in Pakis

     

    The University of Maine at Orono received a record $20.5 million in outside fund

     

    The University of Maine at Orono will be the site of a two-day conference next m

     

    The University of Maine Black Bears hockey team yesterday tied Team USA in a gam

     

    The University of Maine Cooperative Extension has received a $60,000 grant from

     

    The University of Maine helped establish the American University of Bulgaria two

     

    The University of Maine hockey team was welcomed home yesterday at Alfond Arena

     

    The University of Maine received $27 million in 1995 federal research grants, le, Chris Hyde

     

    The University of Maine's Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology has beco

     

    The University of Maine's Maine Community Childhood Hunger Identification Projec

     

    The University of Maine's Pulp and Paper Pilot Plant and Laboratory, built in 19

     

    The University of New England in Biddeford has dismissed a filmmaker and cancell

     

    The University of Southern Maine and the national Tau Kappa Epsilon organization

     

    The University of Southern Maine and Westbrook College are each exploring the po

     

    The University of Southern Maine Community Programs is sponsoring a lecture and

     

    The University of Southern Maine forecasts that December 1995 retail sales, adju

     

    The University of Southern Maine is using a $409,000 federal grant to offer job-

     

    The University of Southern Maine's new Portland campus library is expected to op

     

    The University of Southern Maine, which has normally had a large number of non-t

     

    The University of Southern Maine will celebrate the opening of the new Portland

     

    The University of Southern Maine will induct seven new members into the Husky Ha

     

    The unusually wet May has put vegetable farmers like Rick Belanger of Lewiston b, Rebecca Lamet

     

    The urchin harvest nearly tripled between 1989 and 1992, from 9.4 million to 26.

     

    The USA men's volleyball team will play Italy tomorrow at the Cumberland County

     

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved Maine Cranberry Co.'s application

     

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun proceedings to fire East Coast Marine

     

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has constructed a $380,000, 21,000-square-foot

     

    The U.S. Coast Guard says that 45 of the 206 emergency calls logged between Octo

     

    The U.S. Congress on Monday approved legislation which includes funds for numero

     

    The U.S. Congress on Tuesday approved a bill which will, if signed by President

     

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed a quarantine on Christmas trees g

     

    The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) recently concluded that unfair trade subsi, Jeffrey Bouley

     

    The U.S. Department of Labor is auditing 37 logging companies in Maine that have, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    The U.S. District Court in San Antonio has granted a motion by Idexx Laboratorie

     

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may take over the enforcement of the st

     

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to treat as much as 3 million gal

     

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency surface water treatment rule states tha

     

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the use of Betaseron, t

     

    The U.S. General Services Administration last week signed a 10-year lease with H

     

    The U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet is trying to get the UP-40 squadron of P-3 surveil

     

    The U.S. Post Office last weekend issued a new Youth Classic series of stamps wh

     

    The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a measure sponsored by Sen. William Cohen,

     

    The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved a defense authorization bill which includes

     

    The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a class action lawsuit charging 13 insur

     

    The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Maine's ballot access restriction

     

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that communities may not seize property from active

     

    The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a suit today brought by South Portland native T

     

    The vehicle responsible for a fatal car crash on Route 46 in Eddington Sunday ha

     

    The VIA Group, a Portland-based advertising and marketing company founded by Joh, Whit Richardson

     

    The victim of a rape in April 1991 at the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity house in

     

    The Vinalhaven Historical Society is trying to re-collect relics of the island's, Pat Crossman

     

    The voters of Greenfield voted 104-10 in favor of closing the municipal offices

     

    The Waynflete School board of trustees will search nationwide for a new headmast

     

    The Wells Condo-Motel Task Force is recommending that the town relax the rules r

     

    The Westbrook-based biotechnology company Idexx Laboratories Inc. earned $4.9 mi

     

    The Westbrook City Council is debating whether to downgrade the position of city

     

    The Westbrook Housing Authority will participate in the Elderly Independence Pro

     

    The Westbrook School Committee unanimously approved plans to adopt Project CAMP

     

    The Westbrook School Committee will be asked to adopt the Confined Academic Moti

     

    The Whale Wall Market may not have been a roaring financial success during this

     

    The Wilderness Society reports that increases in the budget of the National Park

     

    The Wilmaster, a 625-foot bulk cargo ship from Norway, began receiving the first

     

    The wind farm on Vinalhaven known as Fox Islands Wind project has drawn both cri, Philip W. Conkling

     

    The Windham Town Council has decided to stop accepting household trash at the tr

     

    The Windham Town Council voted 4-3 to start a pay-per-bag trash collection syste

     

    The winners of the recent pitch competition at the Juice Conference 3.0: Celebra, Sara Anne Donnelly

     

    The Woman-Owned Small Business Federal Contract Program is finally starting near, Whit Richardson

     

    The Women's Business Development Corporation (WBDC) has taken major steps to con, Shirley Jacks, Penny Penrose, and Ria Biley

     

    The Women's Business Development Corporation (WBDC) is suffering in the wake of, Shirley Jacks

     

    The Worcester Energy Co. and the Worcester Peat Co., formed by Morril Webster, h

     

    The Worcester Energy Co., the owner of the peat-to-energy plant in Washington Co

     

    The Workers Assistance Center in Kittery has helped roughly a third of the 1,000

     

    The Workforce Investment Act will require the Cumberland County Training Resourc, Ruth Riddick

     

    The world's largest antique tool auction is upcoming in the Pownal home of Clare, Christopher Hyde

     

    The X2000, a high-speed train, made its test run in New England yesterday, and G

     

    The Yarmouth Planning Board is considering whether to change the ordinances adop

     

    The Yarmouth Planning Board's recommendation that the town council create a desi

     

    The Yarmouth School Committee has decided against moving an elementary school pr

     

    The Yarmouth School Committee's ad hoc calendar committee has outlined a propose

     

    The Yarmouth School Committee, which came in for harsh criticism last year for e

     

    The Yarmouth Town Council on Thursday voted 4-3 to reverse the town's ban on res

     

    The York-Cumberland Housing Development Corp., a non-profit development group ba

     

    The York Group of insurance companies has filed a restructuring plan, under whic

     

    Third in a five-part series on Maine's formula for funding local education. Main

     

    Third in a series on Maine's 1993 high school graduates. Portland High's Michae

     

    Third in a series on the business climate in Maine. This installment states tha

     

    Third installment in a three-part series on the November 2 Cape Elizabeth school

     

    "Third Sector" piece on Maine's predicament of accumulated budget deficits and t, Elizabeth Banwell

     

    Thirteen electricians from throughout the state have been named as complainants

     

    Thirteen Maine companies, along with a government delegation that included Gov., Matt Dodge

     

    Thirteen months and more than $7.3 million later, renovated sections of the Port, Casey Conley

     

    This legislative session, the Natural Resources Committee is considering six bil, Jackie Farwell

     

    This month, in response to disappointing revenues, Portland-based Idealswork is, Sean Donahue

     

    This month, the Portland Public Library received an anonymous $100,000 donation,, Kate Bucklin

     

    This month, the University of Southern Maine will open its Center for Entreprene, Michael Donahue

     

    This November's state election ballot may include a $17 million bond issue to fu, Chris Hyde

     

    This past summer, Philip Conkling, president of the Island Institute, accompanie, Philip Conkling

     

    This September, after 81 years in Portland, Haven's Candies will move to a new f, Sara Walbridge

     

    This spring, Loretta Rowe will become the first woman president of the Portland, Ruth Riddick

     

    This summer, Bowdoin College will spend up to $200,000 to renovate the Walker Ar, Greg Gadberry

     

    This week's expected report on the recent State House ballot-tampering scandal m

     

    This week will mark the 100th anniversary of Bath Iron Works building ships for

     

    This year, five towns cut much of the budget for the troubled and debt-ridden Gr, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    This year Junior Achievement will teach 4,500 Maine students about free enterpri

     

    This year, Maine was ranked last by Forbes magazine in its annual "Best States f, Mindy Woerter

     

    This year's Blaine House Conference on Small Business will focus on technology., Christopher Hyde

     

    This year's Greater Portland Landmarks noon lecture series, entitled "Transporta

     

    This year should mark a turning point in finding a solution to the state's low-l

     

    This year's joint state and federal investigation of the State House ballot-tamp

     

    This year's Maine Boatbuilders Show will attract 200 exhibitors to the Portland, Sara Walbridge

     

    This year the Casco Bay Archaeological Project focused on the Basin site in Phip

     

    Thomas and Vicki Lynn Higgins, former owners of Midcoast Fitness Club in Bath, h

     

    Thomas Cabot, 94, has owned more Maine islands than anyone else this century. H, Thomas D. Cabot

     

    Thomas Field, 25, of Lisbon, is among the U.S. Army soldiers reported missing in

     

    Thomas Field, 25, of Lisbon, will be buried today, and between 300 and 500 peopl

     

    Thomas Hedley Reynolds, 72, of Biddeford and Newcastle, was arrested Monday on a

     

    Thomas Hillman of Portland is one of 55 graphic designers to be featured in a Gr

     

    Thomas L. Welch, 43 , Pennsylvania's Chief Deputy Attorney General for antitrust

     

    Thomas L. Welch, deputy attorney general in Pennsylvania specializing in anti-tr

     

    Thomas McBrierty of the Department of Economic and Community Development, Dann L, Alan Long

     

    Thomas Tiberii, owner of Moose Alley Saloon in Portland's Old Port, will be char

     

    Thore Aatlo, 32, of Portland, has been charged with assault and criminal threate

     

    Thore Aatlo of Portland was sentenced to one month in jail and five months of ho

     

    Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers says it plans to open a showroom in New York City and

     

    Though Dwight Blaney (1865-1944), like Carroll Sargent Tyson, is given short shr, Carl Little

     

    Though exports from Maine's largest industries fell in 1996, the decline was off, Chris Hyde

     

    Though professional photographers have much to say that's positive about digital, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    Though unemployment is relatively low -- 4.7% in Maine, 6% nationally -- the lab, Michaela Cavallaro and Scott Sutherland

     

    Thousands of Maine parents who owe child-support payments have contacted the sta

     

    "Threads" piece., Katharina Hagmann

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    Three Apples Fell From Heaven, John Ventimiglia

     

    Three Bayside subcommittees are close to completing reports to the Portland City, Shirley Jacks and John Cole

     

    Three Canal Plaza has become the latest large Portland office building to change

     

    Three families owning mobile homes in Brunswick's Bay Bridge Estates have filed

     

    "Three Islands, Three Experiences." North Haven Community School weathered its, Deborah DuBrule

     

    "Three Islands, Three Experiences." This year has been tumultuous on Long Islan, Deborah DuBrule

     

    Three Kentucky men were arrested by federal agents after they allegedly tried to

     

    Three Maine-based banks--First Bancorp of Damariscotta, Northeast Bancorp of Lew, Mindy Favreau

     

    Three Massachusetts men were arraigned Tuesday in Biddeford District Court on ch

     

    Three men who discovered what has been called the largest amethyst vein this sid

     

    Three men who were shot at by Katherine Hegarty hours before she was killed by p

     

    Three months after announcing that this will be his last term as Speaker of the

     

    Three of the people involved in racial violence in Oakland last week have been a

     

    Three Old Orchard Beach business have been cited for selling counterfeit T-shirt

     

    Three parents' groups are making efforts to derail a redistricting plan for Port

     

    Three Portland waterfront businesses are competing for a longterm contract with

     

    Three prominent conservatives have resigned their leadership positions in the So

     

    Three related articles on air and water quality in Maine. Despite a precipitous, Chris Hyde

     

    Three related articles on isolation and belonging in Maine island communities., Jeff Dworsky, Chellie Pingree, Philip Booth, Arn H. Pearson, Mary Lou Wendell, and Tony Burkart

     

    Three Sanford police officers suspended for having had sexual contact with 19-ye

     

    Three snowstorms in ten days deposited 21 inches of fresh snow on the area, leav

     

    Three University of Maine football players have tested positive for steroids and

     

    Three years after the so-called Augusta Mental Health Institute consent decree,

     

    Three youths who conspired with Pamela Smart to murder her husband have been tra

     

    Throughout Maine, agencies that provide food assistance to low-income people are, Taylor Smith

     

    Through the federal HUBZone (Historically Underutilized Business Zones) program,, Chris Churchill

     

    Tiffany L. Chamberlain, a former Maine Maritime Academy student who pleaded guil

     

    Tight timber supply, stronger home-building activity and a trading frenzy on the

     

    Tim Diehl of Carrabassett Valley operates one of two dog-sled-for-hire outfits i

     

    Time-Warner cable television company will soon introduce its Roadrunner Internet, Ken Greenleaf

     

    Tim Gerry, 51, of Fairfield, had a heart attack while performing as a clown with

     

    Timothy Porta of Casco, owner of the Migis Lodge on Sebago Lake and the Cry of t

     

    Tim Spaulding, founder of Portland-based LibraryThing.com, which allows users to, Chris Churchill

     

    Today 90 percent of Maine island acreage is forested, up from 10 percent a centu, Philip W. Conkling

     

    Today, fewer than 200 one-room schoolhouses remain in the United States, down fr, Anne Bardaglio

     

    Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the launching of the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien

     

    Todd Morrisette, founder of Scarborough-based DeadHead Lumber, uses his Aqua-log, Whit Richardson

     

    To enhance marketing and growth efforts, 12 independent subsidiaries of Falmouth, Carol Coultas

     

    To join in community life, newcomers to Maine islands are forced to learn to thi, Cynthia Bourgeault

     

    Tom Chappell, president of Tom's of Maine, is trying to make the company a major

     

    Tom Elbright, owner of the American Hockey League's Baltimore Skipjacks, is so c

     

    Tom Elbright, the owner of the Baltimore Skipjacks, has signed to move his team

     

    Tomorrow, Yarmouth will present 77-year-old Edward Ainsworth with its Latchstrin

     

    Tom Tietenberg, an economics professor at Colby College in Waterville, and Unive, Zach Anchors

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    "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra" on Saint Patrick's Day, 1961

     

    "Top Maine Chambers of Commerce." Detailed table of the 10 largest chambers in, Tory Wright

     

    "Top Maine Chambers of Commerce." Detailed table of the 15 largest chambers in

     

    "Top Maine Public Companies." Table decribing the 15 top Maine public companies

     

    To prevent the abandonment of 233 miles of freight railroad in Northern Maine, t, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    Topsham is spending $350,000 of town money to create access roads and landscapin, John N. Cole

     

    Total attendance during the 12th annual Deering Oaks Festival was estimated at 2

     

    Total enrollment at the University of Maine at Orono is down by 8 percent this y

     

    Tourism, Maine's largest industry, brings $2.7 billion to the state and employs

     

    Town meeting results from Avon; Burnham; Detroit; The Forks; Madrid; Phippsburg;

     

    Town officials from Cape Elizabeth are negotiating a settlement with the state A

     

    Town officials in Nobleboro, Newcastle and Jefferson are questioning whether the

     

    Town officials in Old Orchard Beach have passed ordinances against public urinat

     

    Town officials report that the recession has made tax liens and foreclosures mor

     

    "Townscape." Detailed article the Bath-Brunswick region desire to be known as m, Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." Detailed profile of and statistics regarding Cape Elizabeth., Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." Detailed profile of Lewiston and Auburn., Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." Profile and history of Freeport, related advertisements., Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." Profile of Biddeford and Saco., Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." Profile of Scarborough, "Maine's best kept economic secret." Its, Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." Profile of the town of Windham, including, among other topics, its, Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." Profile of the town of Yarmouth. Includes related statistics, adv, Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." Profile of Westbrook., Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." Profile, with related statistics and related advertisements, of th, Michael Donahue

     

    "Townscape." South Portland is considering doubling its municipl debt to build, Michael Donahue

     

    Townspeople in Kittery are concerned about their safety after 73-year old Maxine

     

    Tracy Gayton hopes to raise $2 million in pledges from 200 investors to build Pi, Christian MilNeil

     

    Trade advocates are concerned about the emphasis in high schools on preparing st, Rebecca Zicarelli

     

    Trade delegations from Brazil and Japan have recently visited Maine and a delega, Matt Dodge

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    Trailer Theatre at Payson Park : Summer 1947

     

    TrainRiders' Northeast Director Wayne Davis, speaking at a lecture sponsored by

     

    "Travel." Column describing the plans of the Maine Rail Authority and Trainride, Alan Long

     

    "Travel." Profile of Art Connections in Portland and the art vacation it offers, Shirley Jacks

     

    "Travel." Profile of the charter jet business Maine Aviation Corporation., Alan Long

     

    "Travel." With the reduction in airline commissions, Maine travel agents have b, Alan Long

     

    Travis Conway, 13, of Skowhegan, underwent an 8-hour heart transplant operation

     

    Travis Conway, the 14-year-old Skowhegan boy who underwent an emergency heart tr

     

    Treasure hunters are continuing an annual tradition this weekend, crowding into, Curtis Robinson

    File

    Treasure Island : 1985

     

    "Trends." Tourism is Maine's second-largest industry, producing over $3 billion, Mary Ellen FitzGerald

     

    Tribal Assets Management of Portland, an investment firm that represents Indian

     

    Tribal Assets Management of Portland has been criticized by an assistant inspect

     

    Trout Unlimited and the Cumberland Soil and Water Conservation District plan to

     

    Truckers, limo services, and commuters will be able to use one transponder for t, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    Trustees of Portland's Waynflete School are now saying that the March firing of

     

    Trustees of the Cumberland County Civic Center are seeking bids from entertainme

     

    Trustees of the Cumberland County Civic Center voted unanimously Friday to rejec

     

    Trustees of the Falmouth Memorial Library are kicking off a drive to raise money

     

    Trustees of the Maine Technical College System have proposed a 15 percent tuitio

     

    Trustees of the Portland Water District agreed Monday to let the town of Windham

     

    Trustees of the state's technical colleges will meet to discuss the McKernan adm

     

    Trustees of the University of Maine System agreed to seek authorization to borro

     

    Trustees of the University of Maine System are considering a new tuition structu

     

    Trustees of the University of Maine System are expected to grant tenure to a rec

     

    Trustees of the University of Maine System unanimously approved tuition increase

     

    Tsuneko Ikemiya, a Japanese professor of English and acoustic phonetics currentl

     

    Tuesdays have been thick with tourists this summer, as the cruise ship Islandbre, Greggory Elliott

     

    Turner livestock importer Jay Roebuck's farm is the way station for dairy cows t, Jackie Farwell

     

    Twelve environmental activists jailed for criminal trespassing after blocking an

     

    Twelve environmentalists yesterday chose to remain in jail as a way to protest l

     

    Twelve hundred people attended this year's Advertising Resources '96 Trade Show

     

    Twenty-four percent of Maine voters surveyed this week by the Portland Press Her

     

    Twenty-four-year-old Katherine Albano of Portland yesterday won the title of Mis

     

    Twenty-one members of the Steep Falls Baptist Church have filed suit in Cumberla

     

    Twenty-two members of the Freeport Rescue Department, about half of the rescue v

     

    Twice weekly, Portland police chief Michael Chitwood tours the city on a police, Ed King

     

    Twin brothers Geoff and Mike Howe received a contract from the U.S. Army to buil, Whit Richardson

     

    Two 11-year-old Biddeford girls have been charged with theft after they allegedl

     

    Two bills designed to attract a federal office center in Bangor cleared both the

     

    Two boys, ages 11 and 12, have been charged with theft and burglary after Biddef

     

    Two commuter parking-shuttle programs at the new $500,000 parking lot on Margian

     

    Two competing proposals to remake the Maine State Pier are vying for public supp, Sara Donnelly

     

    Two detailed letters to the editor by Maine business owners on the local growth, Joan Wheeler and Judy Tripp

     

    Two dozen parents of Riverton School students have started a petition asking the

     

    Two for-profit methadone maintenance clinics which were to open this spring near

     

    Two Greater Portland non-profits, VNA & Hospice and Community Health Services, p

     

    Two groups of sidewalk preachers are frustrating merchants in Farmington, who cl

     

    Two illegal immigrants, Francisco J. Pinedo-Paz, 19, and Gonzalo Cebellos-Mejia,

     

    Two Internet cafes have opened recently in Portland: JavaNet and Access Internet, Ken Greenleaf

     

    Two lengthy, detailed articles about the current Maine economy. Gov. King sees, Christopher Hyde

     

    Two Maine bridges, the Neal Bridge in Pittsfield and one in Boothbay that will b, Douglas Rooks

     

    Two "Maine Voices" columns on the North American Free Trade Agreement. Robert J.

     

    Two members of the federal Base Closure Commission are scheduled to tour the Por

     

    Two new breast care centers in Portland offer different atmospheres but a simila

     

    Two new community supported fisheries (CSFs), the Port Clyde Draggermen's Cooper, Peter Smith

     

    Two non-profit developers of low-income housing are defaulting on more than $3 m

     

    Two of the state's public advocates have registered opposition to New England Te

     

    Two opossums were trapped underneath Country Farm Furniture in Kennebunkport las

     

    Two people at the DeCoster Egg Farm in Turner became ill with blood infections c

     

    Two Portland art galleries, the Congress Square Gallery at 42 Exchange Street an, Selby Frame

     

    Two Portland churches are trying to raise $3,000 to help 7-year-old AIDS victim

     

    Two Portland firms have formed a joint venture to list and sell hotels and hospi

     

    Two professors at the University of Maine at Machias, Edwin M. Jessiman and Rich

     

    Two promoters, Donald K. Donald of New Brunswick and Entertainment Fund Inc. of

     

    Two related articles on settling in Frenchboro, which has been waging a five-yea, James Hatch, Dean Lunt, and Dean Lunt

     

    Two related articles on the relationships among people, their boats, and their d, Jan Adkins and George Putz

     

    Two reports to the Land Use Regulation Commission prepared by the consulting fir

     

    Two Scarborough women have formed SPLASH (Scarborough Pool League Actively Seeki

     

    Two sections of roof on Custom House Wharf collapsed under the weight of heavy s

     

    Two teenage boys testified yesterday in York County Superior Court in the case a

     

    Two-term Scarborough town council member Judith L. Roy has resigned her post eff

     

    Two-term Scarborough town councilor Judith Roy has withdrawn the resignation she

     

    Two transporation projects in Scarborough, one involving the widening of Route 1

     

    Two Ukrainian seamen are being held at the Cumberland County Jail after leaving

     

    Two Ukrainian seamen who defected from a Russian fishing vessel off the coast of

     

    Two University of Southern Maine researchers, archaeologist Nathan Hamilton and

     

    Two witnesses testifying for the prosecution in the case of four defendants char

     

    T. Y. Lin International has been engineering Maine roads and bridges for 20 yea

     

    "Uncle Tom's Cabin" author Harriet Beecher Stowe had a life-long hobby of painti, Randy Purinton

     

    Under legislation recently passed in Augusta, Maine automobile drivers under the

     

    Under president Michael McSally, York Insurance has posted high or record earnin

     

    Undersea mussel farming off Vinalhaven produces a large volume of a high-quality, Joe Upton

     

    Under special legislation, 192 state workers have retired but continue to work w

     

    Under the direction of Lea Girardin, the Maine Film Office works to attract film, Kerry Elson

     

    Under the leadership of new director Kathleen Brown, Portland's Department of Ec, Ken Greenleaf

     

    Under the leadership of President Roger Gilmore, the Maine College of Art has ex

     

    Under the lead of President Steven Katona, the College of the Atlantic conducted, Michael Donahue

     

    Under the state's 1994-95 Transportation Improvement Program, Maine will nearly

     

    Under the umbrella of the Maine International Trade Center (MITC), three Maine c, Chris Churchill

     

    Underwater photos of the Gulf of Maine taken from Bill Curtsinger's book, "Extre, Bill Curtsinger

     

    Union officials at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard say the Navy has rejected the y

     

    Union officials claim the state has received health insurance rebates of about $

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    Union Station, ca.1935

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    Union Station, Portland, Maine

     

    United Bikers of Maine has formally asked the Baxter State Park Authority to cha

     

    United Health Care Benefits Trust, a California insurance which has some Maine c

     

    United Parcel Service has donated $10,000 to Portland homeless shelters Friendsh

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    United States Custom House, 1983

     

    United Way kicked off its 1993 capital campaign with early pledges totaling $1.2

     

    United Way of Greater Portland has announced a goal of $6.1 million in pledges f

     

    United Way of Greater Portland hosted a meeting of the social service agencies t

     

    University of Maine associate anthropology professor Paul Roscoe has been awarde

     

    University of Maine associate professor of maritime history, Warren Riess, motiv, Sean Donahue

     

    University of Maine Athletic Director Mike Ploszek announced plans for the Maine

     

    University of Maine at Orono associate professor of civil engineering Dana N. Hu

     

    University of Maine at Orono President Frederick E. Hutchinson has abandoned pla

     

    University of Maine at Orono President Frederick E. Hutchinson has capped enroll

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    University of Maine at Portland, ca.1964

     

    University of Maine demographer Diedre Mageean says that the recent figure for M

     

    University of Maine economics professor Robert Jordan says that the future of Ma

     

    University of Maine President Frederick Hutchinson has proposed cuts totaling $8

     

    University of Maine System acting chancellor J. Michael Orenduff has been recomm

     

    University of Maine System chancellor Robert L. Woodbury said that tuition incre

     

    University of Maine System chancellor Robert Woodbury has announced his intentio

     

    University of Maine System chancellor Robert Woodbury's announcement that he wil

     

    University of Maine System trustees raised room-and-board rates by an average of

     

    University of New England President Thomas Hedley Reynolds, 72, arrested earlier

     

    University of Southern Maine assistant professor of archaeology Nathan D. Hamilt

     

    University of Southern Maine officials are hoping a slight tuition increase and

     

    University of Southern Maine president Richard Pattenaude outlined measures the

     

    University of Southern Maine professor Joseph Conforti comments on the 100-year

     

    University of Southern Maine professor of epidemiology Douglas Thompson has just

     

    University of Southern Maine's Muskie Institute Director Richard Barringer says

     

    Unlike almost any other American city, Portland has a relatively undeveloped arc, Jeff Clark

     

    Until 1913, when the state Legislature prohibited the practice, the state of Mai

     

    Until recently, mussels were just a curiosity in the Maine fishing community. T

     

    Until the mid-1960s, Harry Goodridge of Rockport hunted great white sharks in Pe, Jane Day

     

    Unum Corp. announced earnings of $80.8 million for the second quarter, a 9.3 per

     

    Unum Corp. announced that it is prepared to buy back some of its stock under the

     

    Unum Corp. believes that long-term health-care represents a huge new market for

     

    Unum Corp. has just purchased a $14.6 million, 10-passenger Falcon 50 jet capabl

     

    Unum Corp. has switched its $5.5 million advertising account from The Guthrie Gr

     

    Unum Corp. on Monday reported that its earnings for the third quarter fell 3.6 p

     

    Unum Corp., realizing that today's changing corporate structure has resulted in

     

    Unum Corp. wants to sell longevity coverage, a type of insurance which would pay

     

    Unum, Hannaford Bros. Co. and other Maine employers are increasingly recognizing

     

    UnumProvident's fourth-quarter earnings report disclosed $60.8 million in invest, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    UNUM's upcoming office building, the largest of its kind in Maine, will house 15, Shirley Jacks

     

    Unum, which yesterday reported that its 1992 earnings jumped 21 percent from 199

     

    Update on the current budget battle being negotiated by the Legislature's Approp

     

    Updates made to Maine's LLC law, first crafted in 1997, aim to allow businesses, Jackie Farwell

     

    Up to 800 state employees could be laid off if the current budget proposals bein

     

    Urchin dealers and divers have reached a consensus that rules, including a seaso

     

    U.S. agriculture officials yesterday declared 14 of Maine's 16 counties to be di

     

    U.S. Attorney Jay McCloskey on Friday said that new federal sentencing guideline

     

    U.S. Attorney Richard Cohen will vacate his office this week to make way for an

     

    U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge James Haines has approved an agreement that will per

     

    U.S. Defense Secretary Les Aspin's plans to reduce the nation's attack-submarine

     

    U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby has ruled that Maine Drug Enforcement

     

    U.S. District Court Judge Gene Carter approved a $1 million settlement between P

     

    U.S. District Court Judge Gene Carter, Maine's chief federal judge, announced th

     

    U.S. District Court Judge Gene Carter on Thursday sentenced Daryl E. Singleterry

     

    U.S. District Court Judge Gene Carter on Tuesday sentenced Scott Helms, 28, of T

     

    U.S. District Court Judge Morton A. Brody ruled that Training & Development Corp

     

    U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby has ruled that the Portland billing srvices

     

    U.S. District judge Gene Carter has upheld the state's tax on milk, which goes i

     

    U.S. District judge Morton A. Brady denied a request by John Atwood, commisssion

     

    U.S. District Judge Morton A. Brody has ruled that half-brothers Hubert E. Hartl

     

    Using a Seahaven donated by Seaway Boats of Winthrop, the Island Institute last

     

    USM Recycles, the very successful student-run project at the University of South

     

    U.S. Navy Secretary John Dalton is in Maine today for visits to Bath Iron Works,

     

    U.S. represenative Bill Zeliff, R-N.H., says that the preliminary results of a G

     

    U.S. represenative Thomas H. Andrews last week came out in opposition to an expo

     

    U.S. represenative Tom Andrews addressed 221 graduating seniors at the Universit

     

    U.S. represenative Tom Andrews will host a meeting between Portland's four comme

     

    U. S. representative Olympia Snowe, in a meeting in Washington with members of U

     

    U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell denied that he has been interviewed

     

    U. S. Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina said yesterday that the Portsmou

     

    U.S. senator Olympia Snowe joined the U.S. Small Business Administration and the, Linda A. Monica

     

    U.S. senator Susan Collins will seek a second term when her first ends in 2002., Ruth Riddick

     

    U.S. senator William Cohen, R-Maine, on Tuesday spoke at a hearing of the Govern

     

    U.S. Windpower Inc. of California has proposed creating the $200 million New Eng

     

    Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a Massachusetts consulting group, earlier this yea

     

    Ventech Inc. of Bangor, founded by J. Stephen Robbins and Albert "Sandy" Smith,

     

    "Venture Builder" piece about the author's recent partnership with the Universit, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece about the Obama administration's plan to support innovat, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece containing an interview with Ariel Wilcox, founder of Po, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece describing the author's work as president of CEI Communi, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece featuring an interview with Tom Chappell, CEO of Tom's o, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on Erik Schwartz, former Yahoo executive in Silicone Val, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on how architect Nielsen Van Duijn of Blue Hill originat, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on how Maine might mirror the federal government's innov, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on how President Obama's nomination of Karen Mills of Br, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on Jean Hoffman, CEO and founder of Putney Inc.--a speci, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on Mike Cote, 52, an Auburn native who is head of Looks, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on Nanocomp Technologies, a Concord, New Hampshire manuf, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on President Obama's recent memorandum advocating more r, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on Richard Lugg, who started SonicBlue Aerospace of Falm, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on Small Business Administration head Karen Mills of Mai, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on the application of Ken Wilber's "integral theory" to, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on the Clinton-era, Small Business Administration-sponso, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on the Maine/New England winners of multi-agency regiona, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on the pros and cons of various types of loans for small, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on the Small Business Administration's lead role in supp, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's efforts to find, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece with a profile of Peter Murray, who formed Quantrix, aft, Michael Gurau

     

    "Venture Builder" piece with examples of federal initiatives and resources that, Michael Gurau

     

    Vermont's new-psydchedic band Phish played to an eclectic crowd of enthusiastic

     

    Vernon Haines of Millinocket, a hunter who had refused to pay the entrance fee c

     

    Very brief article reporting that the Maine AFL-CIO is opposed to the legislativ

     

    Very brief interview with Heather Quintal of the Elbow Associates door-to-door

     

    Veterans Support Services Inc. provides emergency food and clothing, employment

     

    Vicki Fulkerson, 31, who has muscular dystrophy, was recently granted an excepti

     

    Victoria Dyer, 43, formerly town manager of Boothbay, has resigned that position

     

    Victoria Murphy of Portland and Severin Beliveau of Hallowell will be treated li

     

    Victoria Van Meter, 11, of Meadville, Pa., on Thursday achieved her goal of beco

     

    Victoria Van Meter, 11, of Meadville, Pa., plans to leave Augusta on Monday on t

     

    Victoria Van Meter, 11, of Meadville, Pa., plans to leave Augusta today on the f

     

    Victoria Van Meter, the 11-year-old girl who departed Augusta Monday on a cross-

     

    Victor Mitchell, a senior at Portland High School, was arrested yesterday and ch

     

    "Views from the Top" piece about the benefits of establishing a set of core valu, Doug Packard

     

    "Views from the Top" piece about the five C's of annual planning success: collab, Doug Packard

     

    "Views from the Top" piece about the value to businesses of building long-term r, Doug Packard

     

    "Views from the Top" piece by Doug Packard, CEO and owner of Doug Packard Consul, Doug Packard

     

    "Views from the Top" piece suggests that an inverted organizational chart -- one, Doug Packard

     

    Village Candle, which started four years ago in the kitchen of Paul Aldrich's To, John N. Cole

     

    Vincent L. McKusick, retired chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court,

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    Vine-Deer-Chatham Project: Relocation, A Community Effort.

     

    Violence, racism and alcohol abuse at Lake Region High School in Naples are prob

     

    Virgil W. Smith, 18, of Portland, yesterday pleaded innocent to one count of ars

     

    Virginia Hildreth, Portland's Director of Economic Development, is leaving her p

     

    Volunteers in Maine are among thousands nationwide who have been distributing a

     

    Volunteers moved 12,000 books into Waynflete School's new 4,200-square-foot libr

     

    Volunteers representing "No More Than 4," an organization that wants to restrict

     

    Voters in the Lake Region school district will decide tomorrow what to do about

     

    Vyacheslav Rokitzk and Victor Mantitkovski, both 23 and from the Ukraine, escape

     

    Wade Miller, a 21-year-old mentally ill man the state is spending $131,000 to ke

     

    Waino T. Ray of Gorham was 11 in 1927 when he stood in Lanesville, Mass., and wa

     

    Wallace H. Nutting, 65, of Biddeford, was acquitted Thursday in Florida on charg

     

    Wal-Mart has caused significant controversy in Famington, as in Bangor, Auburn,, Douglas Rooks and John Cole

     

    Walter Hanstein, defense attorney for Sherrie Cotton, on Tuesday said the state'

     

    Walter McIntire of the University of Maine College of Education says that, over

     

    Warren Huntington, 48, of Portland, former proprieter of A+W Bookkeeping, has be

     

    Warren Island in West Penobscot Bay is Maine's only offshore State Park. It was, Mike Brown

     

    "Washington Watch" column on the field of candidates who are lining up for the 1, Steve Campbell

     

    "Washington Watch" piece on the North American Free Trade Agreement. Of the 18

     

    "Washington Watch" piece reporting that former Rep. David Emery has been fined $

     

    Waste Management of Maine Inc. has proposed hauling away the trash of Regional W

     

    "Watching Baldacci" piece with a recap of Gov. John Baldacci's 2006 State of the, Taylor Smith

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    Water Front, Portland, Me.

     

    Wayne Berzinis, owner of the Discount Book Outlet on Forest Avenue, is fighting

     

    Wayne Davis, chairman of Trainriders Northeast, says that the proposed Wells tra

     

    Wayne Davis of TrainRiders Northeast put out an appeal for the return of the gro

     

    Waynflete School in Portland has disbanded its Hemp Awareness Group (HAG), which

     

    WCSH-TV and WGME-TV remained off Public Cable Co. on Wednesday, with the former

     

    WCSH-TV (Channel 6 in Portland) and its sister station in Bangor will soon close, Christopher Hyde

     

    WCSH-TV is asking that Public Cable Co. pay it 25 cents per subscriber per month

     

    WCSH-TV is back on Public Cable Co., but the terms of the agreement have not bee

     

    WCSH-TV is now back on 15 cable companies in southern and western Maine, and pla

     

    Welch Everman, 46, an English professor at the University of Maine in Orono, has

    File

    Welcoming Ceremonies in Portland with Visitors from Archangel, 1989.

     

    Wells has been selected to be one of four rail stops in Maine when passenger ser

     

    Wendi White has been announced as the new director of the Portland Fish Exchange, Ruth Riddick

     

    Westbrook College in Portland, incorporated into the University of New England i, Michael Donahue

     

    Westbrook High School science teacher L. Anthony Black has been named one of the

     

    Westbrook High School students Tina Rice and David Richards are upset because th

     

    Westbrook police are saying that their investigation into the erasure of a tape

     

    Westbrook Republicans have failed to file proper nomination papers for Rob Smith

     

    West End City Councilor David Marshal will recommend at the Council's next meeti, Ed King

     

    West End councilor David Marshall and East End councilor John Anton, in response

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    West End greetings, 183 Brackett Street : 1959

     

    West End People piece with a profile of Abraham Schechter, Harlan Baker

     

    West End residents continued efforts this week to keep the Reiche branch of the, Kate Bucklin

     

    WGAN-Am talk-show host Al Diamon, 44, believes that radio talk shows are essenti, Greg Gadberry

     

    WGME-TV and Public Cable Co. have reached an agreement under which the cable sys

     

    WGME-TV and WCSH-TV expect to pull their signals from Public Cable Co. on Tuesda

     

    W. Godfrey Wood, one of 50 candidates, was recently selected as president and ch, Michael Donahue

     

    Whale watchers and researchers aboard the whale-watch boat Oceanic out of Portsm

     

    What Charles and Carol McLane called an "unpretentious exercise" in the 1970s qu, David D. Platt

     

    When Acadia Insurance signed their incorporation papers, they also discovered an, Shirley Jacks

     

    When Adelphia bought eight Maine cable companies in October, it became the state, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    When Bowdoinham lost one of the few businesses in its village, town leaders bega, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    When Burnham-based Pride Manufacturing Co.'s Guilford wood-turning facility went, Jess Kilby

     

    When Chris McCormick became CEO of L.L. Bean five years ago, he stepped in to le, Sean Donahue

     

    When David Bateman proposed to build a luxury resort and corporate retreat in th, Sara Walbridge

     

    When Dick and Jane Davis moved to Arrowsic from Santa Barbara, California, they, John N. Cole

     

    When Helen Kazanides opened European Bakery in Falmouth in 1991, hers was the on

     

    When HP Hood Co. dropped 10 Maine organic dairy farms from its stable of produce, Carol Coultas

     

    When Hurricane Andrew ravaged south Florida last year, it uprooted numerous rare

     

    When it comes to purchasing new fire trucks, the open bidding process is being i

     

    When Levinsky's closed its Falmouth store, its neighbor Nancy Foster-Wolf found, Ken Greenleaf

     

    When Maine Medical Center and Brighton Medical Center merged last year, Mercy ho

     

    When Rockwell Kent arrived in 1905, Monhegan Island was still an Atlantic fronti, Phyllis Austin

     

    When the Internal Revenue Service began auditing self-employed lobstermen in the, Mike Brown

     

    When the new Portland-South Portland bridge is complete, Beach Street in Portlan

     

    While Maine banks are again making business loans, borrowers are facing tougher

     

    While other cities in Maine have had difficulty finding ways to get approval and, Doug Kesseli

     

    While the Maine House last week defeated a bill that would have imposed term lim

     

    While this year's relatively mild winter hurt snow-based businesses across the s, Chris Churchill

     

    Whistle-blower complaints to the Maine Human Rights Commission now account for o

     

    White Rock Distilleries Inc. of Lewiston has exported thousands of bottles of it

     

    William Ambrose says that without the Small Business Administration, he would ha

     

    William D. McDonough, chief lobbyist for the Seacoast Shipyard Association, says

     

    William J. Vail is resigning as state fish and game commissioner effective Febru

     

    William M. Bennett, who was fired from his position as headmaster at Portland's

     

    William McDonough, former commander of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and now chi

     

    William Moore, a researcher at the University of Southern Maine's Production Tec

     

    William Olsen, 64, of South Bristol, maintains thousands of clothing-store manne

     

    William Seretta, former chief executive of Harper/Connecting Point Computer Cent

     

    William Shelley, a native of Falmouth who now lives in Atlanta, hopes to draw vi

     

    William Steele reviews LA Public Theater's production of "The Road to Mecca."

     

    William Wegman, a summer resident of Rangeley, photographs his Weimarener dogs i

     

    Willis Lyford, Gov. John McKernan's longtime spokesman, is resigning from his po

     

    Will Kreth, editorial director of Road Runner/Time Warner Cable, will start a Ma, Ken Greenleaf

     

    Will Marquis, 18, of Freeport, and two boys under age 18, all members of the FSU

     

    Windham Junior High and Windham High schools are the only ones in southern Maine

     

    Windham merchants have developed a phone tree which can notify 200 area business

     

    Windham, the only Greater Portland community operating an illegal transfer stati

     

    Windham town councilors voted 5-2 in favor of relaxing the town's housing densit

     

    Windham town officials have secured a $1.2 million Farmers Home Administration g

     

    Windham voters opposed to the pay-per-bag trash collection system approved by th

     

    Windjammers Jim Sharp and Peter Drury comment on traveling Maine's islands by sc, Jim Sharp, Peter Drury, and Henry W. Taft

     

    Windjammer vacations have changed over the past few years. Lengthy, detailed ar, Scott Andrews

     

    Wini Smart, president of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, research, Cherie Galyean

     

    Winter golf enthusiasts can tee off at Fore Season Golf in Portland. Its indoor

     

    Winter is the busiest season for the Maine Seacoast Mission, which supplies staf, Tony Burkart

     

    Winthrop-based Commtel, known officially as Community Service Communications, wa, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    Winthrop Libby, 81, a former president of the University of Maine at Orono, died

     

    Winton F. Scott, the lead architect of the Portland City Hall auditorium renovat

     

    Wiscasset-based Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), a community development financia, Carol Coultas

     

    With controversy raging over the ethics of using growth hormone to treat short c

     

    With its invitation to The Gap to open an outlet store, Rockland is poised to be, Shirley Jacks

     

    With Maine's forest fire season approaching, the state's Forest Service will inc

     

    With new families moving to Matinicus Island and the revival of its one-room sch, Steve Cartwright

     

    With only five percent of its land devoted to public conservation, Maine ranks 4, J Mason Morfit

     

    With the 10th anniversary of the Portland Museum of Art's Charles Shipman Payson

     

    With the 1994 gubernatorial primaries just a little more than one year away, the

     

    With the decline of the Florida Marlins and the departure of numerous Marlins, P, Ed King

     

    With the number of cars passing through the York turnpike toll plaza up noticeab

     

    With the number of hunters in Maine declining, four owners of hunting-related bu, Sean Donahue

     

    With the post-Civil War introduction of the purse-seine, Maine's mackerel fisher, Ben Neal

     

    With the recent announcement that the Alfred Police Department is reopening the

     

    With the Scarborough Town Council electing not to change the town's 13-year-old

     

    With the support of the U.S. Coast Guard and the interest of local college and c, Deborah Davis

     

    With tonight's Tri-State Megabucks jackpot at $11 million, Maine State Lottery o

     

    Witnesses for the prosecution in the case involving four defendants in the June

     

    W. L. Blake sold its Portland warehouse to F. W. Webb in late November.

     

    W. Mitchell Donovan, just named director of the Greater Portland Economic Develo

     

    Wolfe's Neck Farm is trying to increase its production of organically raised bee, Michaela Cavallaro

     

    WOMBATS (Women's Mountain Bike and Tea Society) is a worldwide group with over 7

     

    Women Unlimited, directed by State Senator Dale McCormick, provides women a 14-w

     

    Women Unlimited of Augusta is raising money for its Rosie the Riveter off-to-wor, Ruth Riddick

     

    Wooden boat building has been a tradition on Beals Island, long before the 1958, Brenda T. Dodge

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    Woodfords Corner, 1947

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    Woodfords Corner, ca.1955

     

    Woods to Goods Outlet on Route 1 in York is the first store in Maine to sell onl

     

    Woody Bishop of Rowe Ford is Maine's "Mr. Hummer," the product manager for Maine, John N. Cole

     

    "Working knowledge: exploring the needs of four key industries and how to meet t, Michael LeVert and Chuck Lawton

     

    "Working knowledge: exploring the needs of four key industries and how to meet t, Michael LeVert and Chuck Lawton

     

    "Working Knowledge: Exploring the needs of four key industries and how to meet t, Chuck Lawton and Michael LeVert

     

    "Working Knowledge: Part V of VI, on the needs of four key industries and how to, Jackie Farwell

     

    Working Waterfront, a journal, began as a larger effort to set up a marine resou, David D. Platt

     

    Work is scheduled to begin next week on the 84-lot Windward subdivision off Gorh

     

    Work on the International Marine Terminal in Portland will continue through July

     

    Wright Express began with three Portland-area gas stations that hooked fuel pump, Jackie Farwell

     

    Writer Alfred DePew of Portland, lawyer John D. Bradford of Biddeford, poet Mart

     

    Writer and sculptor John Garber has owned Sequin, or Seguin Island for over a de, John M. Garber

     

    Yaeko Collier, 50, of Portland, is the new president of the Japan Society of Mai

     

    Yarmouth educational officials recently unveiled a plan to shorten the summer va

     

    Yarmouth High School principal Kenneth Nye has been named principal of the year

     

    Yarmouth High School principal Kenneth Nye, recently named Maine's principal of

     

    Yarmouth High School student Alex Collins is on the steering committee for the u, Ruth Riddick

     

    Yarmouth officials are considering a townwide revaluation and they fear that whi

     

    Yarmouth residents living near the pier that serves the ferry that runs to Cumbe

     

    Yarmouth's Affordable Housing Alliance has found a parcel of land which it hopes

     

    Yarmouth Town Planner David Klenk is resigning his position after 4 1/2 years fo

     

    Years of accumulated silt in Yarmouth's harbor have made negotiating the waterwa

     

    Yellow Light Breen, senior vice president at Bangor Savings Bank, discusses the, Rebecca Goldfine

     

    Yesterday witnessed the first town meeting in the history of Long Island, which

     

    York-based Stonewall Kitchen last month rolled out the Barefoot Contessa Pantry, Chris Churchill

     

    York County commissioners on Monday voted to uphold Sheriff Michael Bemis' April

     

    York County District Attorney Michael Cantara, acting on a request from the Sanf

     

    York County District Attorney Michael Cantara is recommending that David Rochele

     

    York County Jail officer Raymond "Tank" Moreau, 54, hs been indicted on charges

     

    York County sheriff Michael Bemis has decided that York County Jail will no long

     

    York County sheriff Michael Bemis will attempt to negotiate a contract with Cumb

     

    York County sheriff Michael E. Bemis, 36, of Kennebunk, has announced his intent

     

    York County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Linwood "Skip" Turnbull has resign

     

    York Hospital has the shortest average stay of any of Maine's 42 hospitals for w

 
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