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  • Laboratory in a can monitors red tide off Maine

    The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts deployed a garbage can-size canister in the waters off southern Maine last month to collect and transmit data about toxin-producing algae blooms, known as red tides, that appear in the Gulf of Maine each ...

  • Innovative schools share ideas to improve learning

    It wasn’t that he wasn’t learning, he said, but he didn’t find what he was learning important and didn’t feel a need to write it down - as homework and papers - to show he knew ...

  • Maine Turnpike traffic falls after toll increases

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Traffic on the Maine Turnpike fell by 4 percent in the first six months after tolls went up, but toll revenues increased by 16 percent during the same ...

  • Maine mans body found after standoff fire

    SACO, Maine (AP) - The body of a 58-year-old Maine man has been found in the rubble of his home following a fire that he’s believed to have started during a standoff with ...

  • Maine comic festival features writers artists

    More than 100 comic book writers, artists, publishers and cartoonists will be on hand at the fifth annual Maine Comics Arts Festival. The event is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Ocean Gateway on the Portland ...


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My Dinner With Andre [DVD]

My Dinner With Andre [DVD]

By any stretch of the imagination, My Dinner With Andre was a risky endeavor. It is, after all, a nearly two-hour film that consists of little more than two men, who were once close friends but havent seen each other in years, talking over dinner in an elegant New Y ... ...

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  • Baby American eels providing huge profits and big headaches in Maine

    BREWER, Maine - A tiny translucent eel that sells for nearly $2,000 a pound has created a modern gold rush along Maine’s rivers and streams, generating millions of dollars for once-struggling fishermen, a surge in illegal fishing, and a debate about how long the economic boom can - or should - ...

  • Oversight of Maine restaurants diminishes just as complaints rise

    rbillings@mainetoday.com Staff Writer Maine’s guidelines for overseeing restaurant safety were quietly scaled back last year, even as the number of health-related complaints about Maine restaurants has been on the ...

  • Maine inspection rule among least restrictive in U.S.

    Statewide online database In Massachusetts, the standard is twice a year, a frequency considered to be the national average. In Georgia, restaurants have to post health inspection reports next to their front doors, and in St. Louis, Mo., every restaurant must post a letter grade from its last inspection or face a $500 fine. In Maine, meanwhile, restaurants are supposed to get routine inspections ...

  • Maine Turnpike toll hike pays off

    erussell@pressherald.com Staff Writer In the first six months since the Maine Turnpike Authority increased tolls at various spots along the 106-mile highway, revenue increased by 16 percent even as the number of cars on the turnpike dropped by 4 ...

  • Hats off to graduates of colleges and universities in Maine

    From staff reports Several colleges in Maine held commencement ceremonies on Saturday. Southern Maine Community College graduated its largest class in the school's 67-year history during ceremonies at the South Portland campus athletic fields. A total of 1,074 students from 17 states and eight countries were expected to receive their degrees. The Class of 2013 also included 33 students who ...

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