OAKLAND — Ryan Gero’s team certainly has a way of keeping him on his toes. In its first two games of the 2022 season, Gero’s Gardiner softball team has needed its offense to come through to edge out victories. Against Erskine Academy and Edward Little, defensive miscues forced the Tigers to win relatively tight ballgames […]
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Facing a raft of retirements, BIW seeks 1,000 new hires
Bath Iron Works is known for building Navy warships from the ground up, but if it wants to stay in business it has to do the same to its workforce. The shipyard is in the midst of a massive hiring push to finish a backlog of ship work and reinforce its army of mechanics, many of whom are nearing […]
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‘We just can’t compete with Canada right now’: Tariffs drive down U.S. lobster exports to China by 46%
At the start of last summer, the U.S. lobster industry was riding high, fueled by explosive growth in sales to a Chinese middle class that couldn’t seem to get enough of our tasty, lucky-color red symbol of wealth, status and success. Then, in July, China slapped the U.S. lobster industry with a 25 percent tariff in the second […]
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Hemp: Maine’s newest growing field
NORTH ANSON — John Black has arranged his equipment around a recently empty dairy barn, neat piles of irrigation tubing, dozens of components, two shiny, 12-foot-tall satellite-guided tractors. He’s got every-farmer woes — if only it hadn’t rained so much and he’d gotten that extra three weeks in the ground — and for the first […]
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Bath-built destroyer USS Daniel Inouye christened in honor of U.S. senator, war hero
BATH — Bath Iron Works’ 37th Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the future USS Daniel Inouye, was christened Saturday by the namesake’s widow, Irene Inouye. Born in Hawaii in 1924, Daniel Inouye was a World War II hero who went on to become the first Japanese-American elected to Congress. He served in the USenate for 50 years and was […]
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Solar bill’s passage prompts optimism in the industry
Solar power advocates are hailing a decision to restore incentives to homeowners with solar installations, the first of what they hope are many legislative changes to support the industry. The optimism follows eight years of former Gov. Paul LePage’s administration, which worked to roll back incentives for solar power because of the costs. Gov. Janet Mills, […]
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State dismisses remaining complaints against Lewiston oral surgeon Jan Kippax
The dismissal means that, in three years of investigations and hearings, the state never found a single instance to show the longtime dentist did anything improper.
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Two hurt in Lisbon crash
Police said one of the women was trapped inside her mangled vehicle and had to be freed by firefighters. Police shut down a section of Route 9 and called for a LifeFlight helicopter.
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Jay woman pleads guilty to selling cocaine, heroin
She had been indicted in October 2018 on two higher felony charges of aggravated trafficking of scheduled drugs. The state dismissed those charges and a separate violation of condition of release on Thursday.