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  • Maine Catholic church closing its doors

    The Roman Catholic Diocese has signed a purchase-and-sale agreement with a company that owns an adjacent shopping center. Church officials say the sale is expected to be finalized in August and that the buyer has indicated it plans to demolish the 39-year-old ...

  • No discipline for trooper whose gun discharged

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - There will be no punishment for a Maine state police lieutenant whose gun accidentally discharged during a training ...

  • Mellencamp-King musical to debut in Bloomington

    BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A musical by John Mellencamp, writer Stephen King and T Bone Burnett will debut in Bloomington this fall before embarking on a tour of 20 U.S. ...

  • Maine budget committee holds emergency meeting

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - The Maine Legislature’s budget-writing committee is meeting with the Department of Health and Human Services commissioner about her department’s financial ...

  • 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 ...


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Movie Review

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

"What's Eating Gilbert Grape" is a wonderfully rambling film that relies wholly on its characters to see it through to the end. There's no elaborate plot structure, and the only central conflict is general angst and unrest. Therefore, it is up to the main characters of the small town of Endora, Iowa to create a meaningful existence on-screen. The film feels like Peter Bogdonavich's "The Last Pictu ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 - ...

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