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Downeaster riders won’t be able to order alcohol while train is in New Hampshire
A Granite State law says alcohol served in New Hampshire must have been purchased in the state. On the Amtrak Downeaster passenger rail service, the alcoholic drinks come from Maine.
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Norfolk Southern announces safety upgrades after derailments
The announcement comes the same day Pennsylvania’s governor announced that the company had agreed to pay several million dollars to cover the cost of the response and recovery in that state.
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Maine dam operator not protecting salmon, say environmentalists, tribe
The last wild Atlantic salmon live in a group of rivers in Maine and have been listed under the Endangered Species Act since 2000.
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Lawmakers to hear about Maine sludge disposal crisis
The Maine DEP and the operator of the state’s largest landfill will brief state lawmakers on Maine’s sludge crisis on Wednesday.
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Maine Commercial Real Estate Transactions: February 2023
Broker submitted sales and leases for land, industrial, office, retail and more.
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At Elon Musk’s ‘brittle’ Twitter, small tweaks trigger massive outages
‘Every mistake in code and operations is now deadly,’ a former engineer said last year. That dire prediction appears to be coming true.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, New England, News
No one hurt when 2 United flights touch on the ground at Boston airport
Nobody was injured and passengers were moved to different aircraft.
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Thousands of pro-Trump Twitter bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley
Researchers have uncovered a network of tens of thousands of fake Twitter accounts created to support former President Donald Trump and attack his critics and potential rivals.
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With no place to go, some patients in Maine spend months in hospitals
A lack of beds and staffing at assisted living facilities and nursing homes creates an unwelcome situation that benefits neither the languishing patients nor the hospitals shouldering their care.