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September 17, 2012

In bad year for apple harvests, Maine growers holding their own

If local apples are what you’re after, start looking now.
Published
September 17, 2012

Maine apple crop fares better than national averages

Maine and other New England states are harvesting more apples than their Midwestern counterparts, but even they are harvesting fewer apples than in recent years.
Published
August 31, 2012

Maine gas prices surge just in time for Labor Day

The cost of a gallon of gasoline in Maine is closing in on what you have to shell out for a pound of lobster: right around $4.
Published
August 31, 2012

Mosquitoes focus of biologist’s work

Sherrie Juris is on the front line of a small army of people the state of Maine has assigned to gather information on specific diseases where they often appear first: in mosquitoes.
Published
August 28, 2012

Lebannon school officials order spraying after West Nile found

While state officials await test results from two suspected cases of mosquito-borne viruses in humans, a school district in York County has sprayed pesticides at elementary school properties to protect students.
Published
August 27, 2012

Lebanon spraying against West Nile

As a precaution, officials decide to spray pesticides at the edges of two elementary school properties in RSU 60.
Published
August 23, 2012

West Nile virus found in Gorham

The most recent case shows the presence of the virus in both York and Cumberland counties.
Published
August 20, 2012

College of the Atlantic conducts whale necropsy

A sperm whale carcass, retrieved last week from Frenchman Bay near Bar Harbor, was dismembered as part of a necropsy of the gigantic marine mammal conducted Monday by researchers near Bar Harbor.
Published
August 20, 2012

Maine tests two people for West Nile virus

As results are awaited, officials urge Mainers to take precautions against mosquito bites.
Published
August 20, 2012

Maine officials await blood tests for West Nile

So far, no human cases of the virus have been diagnosed in the state, although a mosquito surveillance pool in York County tested positive for the virus last week.