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This Iconic Diner Was Named Maine’s Best for 2025
Q106.5 - Maine
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July 7, 2025
While we have so many awesome and amazing diners scattered across Maine, this one in particular was just named the best for 2025! We all love a good diner—honestly, even a not-so-great one can still be a pretty great time. Lucky for us, Maine...
‘Protecting Lives’: Temporary Street Redesigns in Portland Area
WPOR 101.9 - Maine
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This summer, the cities of Portland, Saco, and South Portland are using roadway paint, flexible traffic posts, and speed bumps to temporarily redesign select streets. The project comes after 92 people were killed in Greater Portland area traffic...
Midcoast meat snacks maker brings home the bacon in 'Greenlight Maine' season finale
Mainebiz - Oregon
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Singing Pastures, a Newcastle-based producer of pasture-raised meat snacks, won the $25,000 Season 10 “Greenlight Maine” cash prize. Owners Holly and John Arbuckle plan to use the money to fund a new website ahead of a rebrand and expansion. In...
History says this is how Maine will elect its 3rd independent governor
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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July 7, 2025
Rick Bennett was 11 years old when Lewiston insurance agency owner Jim Longley won the 1974 gubernatorial race to become the first independent governor in Maine and the country. Twenty years later, Mainers elected a public television host named...
A 13-year-old immigrant was arrested in Maine. It took 2 weeks to get her home.
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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July 7, 2025
FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts — In the summer of 2021, Lesca got a startling phone call. “We have your daughter,” an immigration official said on the other line. Lesca’s 9-year-old daughter, Yori, had crossed the southern border alone, hoping to...
Nyandjo’s first regular season goal lifts Tormenta to road point in Maine
WJCL TV - Georgia
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July 7, 2025
South Georgia Tormenta FC earned a hard-fought 1-1 draw against Hearts of Pine on Wednesday night, claiming a valuable road point in USL League One action.Jonathan Nyandjo netted the equalizer in the 64th minute, scoring his first goal of the...
Three people were injured after firework malfunction at Maine ski resort
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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July 6, 2025
NEWRY, Maine — Three people were hurt when fireworks malfunctioned during a display at Sunday River Ski Resort in Maine. According to the State Fire Marshall’s office, the incident occurred around 9:15 P.M. on Saturday, when a 5-inch firework...
Homers Lift New Hampshire in Portland Series Finale
Manchester Ink Link - New Hampshire
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July 6, 2025
PORTLAND, ME – The New Hampshire Fisher Cats (5-7, 34-47) plated four runs in the top of the fifth and three in the eighth to take down the Portland Sea Dogs (4-8, 38-41) at Hadlock Field on Sunday, 10-5. Fisher Cats third baseman Charles McAdoo...
Bangor Maine Man in Critical Condition After I95 Motorcycle Crash
Z107.3 - Maine
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July 7, 2025
A Bangor man is in critical condition after a motorcycle crash on I-95 in Fairfield. Maine State Police Say a Bangor Motorcyclist Was Not Wearing a Helmet in I-95 Crash Kyle Trull, 40, of Bangor, was not wearing a helmet when his motorcycle...
3 hurt when fireworks malfunction during show in Maine
NECN - Massachusetts
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Three members of a pyrotechnics crew were hurt when a firework malfunctioned during a show at the Sunday River Ski Resort in Newry, Maine, Saturday, according to state officials. It happened around 9:15 p.m., when a 5-inch firework shell and...
‘First ship’ nonprofit’s new director brings deep draft of maritime experience
Mainebiz - Oregon
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Maine’s First Ship, a Bath nonprofit that provides education and sailing programs using its reconstruction of the 1607 sailing ship Virginia, got a boatload of maritime education experience in the recent hire of its executive director. Alicia...
Maine State Police are investigating the death of a paddleboarder found in Crawford Pond as a homicide
News Center Maine
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July 5, 2025
Sunshine Stewart, 48, had reportedly been paddleboarding on the evening of July 2 near 100 Acre Island on Crawford Pond. UNION, Maine — Editor's note: The attached video originally aired on July 3, 2025. Maine State Police have launched a homicide...
Maine State Police Investigating Death of Woman
B98.5 - Maine
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July 5, 2025
According to a press release from the Maine Department of Public Safety's Shannon Moss, the Maine State Police are investigating the death of a woman in Union. The press release explains that the woman's body was found during a search for a...
Getting hot in Maine again; heat advisory issued beginning at 11 a.m.
WMTW 8 - Maine
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July 6, 2025
Getting hot in Maine again; heat advisory issued beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday will feel like 95 to 100 degrees in areas of Maine, with rain and thunderstorm chances throughout the week TO CONTINUE TO WARM HEADING IN THROUGH TODAY. NOW HERE’S A LOOK...
Maine attorney Joshua Dunlap nominated to US appeals court in Boston
News Center Maine
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July 4, 2025
President Donald Trump has nominated Dunlap to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston. AUGUSTA, Maine — Joshua Dunlap, an attorney from Scarborough, has been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve on the U.S....
Maine Adventures: out on Casco Bay and Fortland with Portland Explorer tours
FOX 23 - Maine
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PORTLAND (WGME)--- Meteorologist Christian Bridges is back again with another Maine adventure. This week, he takes us out on Casco Bay to Fortland on House Island, courtesy of Portland Explorer tour company. Eric Pray, owner of Portland Explorer...
Death of woman found in pond in Union, Maine ruled a homocide
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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The death of a 48-year-old woman who was found in a pond in Union, Maine, has been ruled a homicide, State Police said Saturday. The woman was identified as Sunshine Stewart, of Tenants Harbor, Maine State Police said in a statement. Maine Game...
Maine's immigrant farmers keep growing despite cuts to USDA's local food program
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 3, 2025
It’s a sunny, sticky late June afternoon and Habiba Salat bends over tidy rows of knee-high vegetables in a sprawling field at Liberation Farms in Wales. "What are you working on right now?" asked Maine Public reporter Nora Saks. "I’m weeding my...
Tilson Makes Significant Progress In Plan To Strengthen Business
MENAFN
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July 8, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) Company Receives Final Court Approval of Key Business Continuity Motions PORTLAND, Maine, July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tilson Technology Management ("Tilson" or "the Company"), a national leader in network development and...
Maine police apologize after posting AI-edited drug bust photos
Nashville Herald - Tennessee
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July 2, 2025
By Morgan Womack Portland Press Herald, Maine WESTBROOK, Maine — The Westbrook Police Department said it mistakenly posted an AI-generated picture of items from a drug seizure to its Facebook page after an officer asked ChatGPT to add a police...