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James Rockefeller, founder of Owls Head Transportation Museum, dies
James Rockefeller, a co-founder of the Owls Head Transportation Museum, died in his Camden home on Jan. 8, just a day after he turned 99, according to his obituary. Rockefeller, who belongs to the...
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Man allegedly broke into more than 20 vehicles in Maine town
A man allegedly broke into more than 20 vehicles over the course of a night in Brunswick. Vladimir Zintchenko, 50, was charged with burglary, burglary of a motor vehicle, theft by unauthorized taking...
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Police shoot machete-wielding man on Maine bridge
Police shot a machete-wielding man on the Merrymeeting Bridge in Topsham early Tuesday morning. Joseph Mendez, 33, called the Sagadahoc County Regional Communications Center about 1:32 a.m. to thank...
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A Maine woman’s woodsy gingerbread home outlasts the holidays
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Belfast considers banning cruise ship visits
Belfast city councilors have taken an initial step toward banning cruise ships and other large passenger vessels from docking at the city landing, after local officials and a business group raised...
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Maine State Police looking to return contractor’s tools found on I-295
The Maine State Police are looking to connect with someone who may have lost items off the back of their work truck on Wednesday morning. The state police announced on its Facebook page that two items...
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PFAS contamination from Brunswick spill confirmed in fish
Samples of fish taken near the former naval airbase in Brunswick have been found to be contaminated by PFAS chemicals from this past summer’s spill of toxic firefighting foam. The Maine Department of...
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Stockton Springs paid $9,689 to fired town manager
Stockton Springs paid its recently fired town manager $9,689 upon his separation from the town, but local officials still have not publicly shared the reason he was let go, according to a copy of his...
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Movie based on book by midcoast author nominated for 3 Oscars
An animated film adaptation of a novel by the midcoast author and illustrator Peter Brown was nominated for three Academy Awards on Thursday. “The Wild Robot,” published in 2016, is the story of a...
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Midcoast schools are sending more kids outside to help their learning
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What it’s like to ride down Camden’s famed toboggan chute
I must confess something: Since I was born and raised in Florida, I never went sledding while growing up. So on Friday morning of this week, I was a little nervous staring down the 440-foot toboggan...
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Fires destroy 2 adjacent homes in Stockton Springs
Two homes that were next door to each other in Stockton Springs were coincidentally destroyed in separate fires on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. No one was injured, and local fire officials...
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Man convicted in Maine Zumba scandal charged for prostitution in the midcoast
Mark Strong Sr., the man convicted of helping to run a prostitution business out of a southern Maine Zumba studio more than a decade ago, has been summonsed along with 10 other men for allegedly...
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Couple who fought off Belfast fish farm reflect on years-long saga
By the time Nordic Aquafarms announced this month that it was pulling the plug on its $500 million salmon farm in Belfast, the decision felt almost inevitable. Over seven years, the company had...
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Military uses drones to search for old rocket debris at midcoast beach
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Unattended lobster boat sinks in Friendship
An unattended lobster boat sank on its mooring at the Fisherman’s Heritage Lobster Co-op in Friendship on Tuesday morning, according to the local harbormaster. Nobody was injured. Scott Delano, the...
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Brunswick residents concerned about plan to expand sludge digester
Plans to update and expand an existing sludge digester in Brunswick led to a packed house at Monday night’s Town Council workshop. Viridi Energy is looking to expand its facility at Brunswick Landing....
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Midcoast town temporarily blocks construction of Dollar General
Residents of the town of Washington voted to enact a six-month moratorium on new major non-residential development projects Wednesday night in an effort to block the construction of a new Dollar...
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A 77-year-old Phippsburg woman is missing
Editor’s note: Sharon Brown has been found safe. Police are asking for the public’s help finding Sharon Brown, 77, of Phippsburg, who was last seen at about 1 p.m. Wednesday on East Avenue in...
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Missing Maine woman found safe
A missing Phippsburg woman has been found safe. Sharon Brown, 77, was reported missing Wednesday evening when she didn’t return home and didn’t contact family, according to Shannon Moss, a...
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