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Hampton Beach, Maine coastal floods: Homes evacuated in 'unprecedented' storm, high tide
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 5 months agoHAMPTON — More than 20 people were evacuated from Hampton Beach homes as coastal flooding hit the...
Electricity rate option triggers skepticism, partisan charges
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDec. 18—A month before November's election, four Republican legislators held a news conference in Bangor to charge that Gov. Janet Mills and the Public Utilities Commission were giving discounts ...
Portlanders to weigh referendums on clean elections and proportional ranked choice voting
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNov. 3—Portland voters have a lot to consider in this election, including two proposals aimed at improving the election process itself — clean elections and proportional ranked choice voting ...
EPA proposal would tighten limits on PFAS in Maine water
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 14—Nearly two years after Maine imposed some of the nation's first limits on industrial pollutants known as "forever chemicals," the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed ...
From hot tubs to handrails, the Mainely name sells, business owners say
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApr. 2—Tom Welch makes handrails, and he makes them in Maine. He wants to make those facts very clear. "If somebody's looking for handrails in Maine, it's in my name," said Welch, whose Mainely ...
Home AC units -- in Maine, all the cool kids are using them
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAug. 6—Eighty-one-year-old Donna Wormell says she was "tougher stuff" as a youngster, so hot summer nights in the upstairs bedroom of her family's Falmouth home didn't bother her. But as Maine ...
Maine's seasonal businesses say summer hiring looks sunnier this year
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo Finance· 1 month agoMay 27—Dave Schiff started hiring for the summer in October. Each year, Schiff, owner and director of Camp Manitou, needs to bring on 225 to 250 staff members to keep the Oakland camp running ...
With no place to go, some patients in Maine spend months in hospitals
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 5—Susan Cameron spent 164 days this winter in the same small hospital room at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford — a gray room with a view of the parking lot. Cameron was ready to ...
Committee endorses $30 million bond to support Maine trails
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMar. 29—A legislative committee unanimously endorsed a proposed $30 million bond Friday that would provide grants to organizations and communities for motorized, non-motorized and multi-use ...
Prediction for nor'easter prompts raft of cancellations, warnings about power outages
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 13—A slow-moving nor'easter packing wind gusts of up to 50 mph could drop as much as 10 inches of wet, heavy snow in Portland and up to a foot in other areas of Maine, prompting a slew ...
