BANGOR, Maine — Paradegoers and participants dodged intermittent rain drops Saturday morning and afternoon, and a dreary forecast may have kept some people away, but thousands of area residents lined main thoroughfares in Bangor and Brewer for the annual Greater Bangor Kiwanis Club Fourth of July Parade.
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PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — A local Teamsters union will stage a massive statewide food drive to assure that no one in Aroostook County goes to bed with a rumbling stomach.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. John Baldacci said Saturday the words of the Declaration of Independence are as meaningful today as they were when they were written more than 200 years ago.
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CARIBOU, Maine — An Aroostook County health care agency will turn to a sizeable grant to help its providers assure that all of the patients it treats have a current, accurate and complete medical …
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OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine — Maine’s sand beaches bring about $500 million of new money into the state each year and support some 8,000 jobs, but the beach economy could be put in jeopardy because …
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By Clarke Canfield The Associated Press
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7/4/09
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There’s nothing fun about learning history while sitting in a classroom or studying a textbook.
What if, instead, schoolchildren could learn about the histories of their towns or cities by …
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ELLSWORTH, Maine — The Maine Coast Memorial Hospital board of trustees has named a long-time health care administrator as the interim CEO of the hospital.
Board Chairwoman Karen Stanley …
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BANGOR, Maine — Among the many Maine projects approved for federal stimulus funding this year, about $53 million has been set aside for renovations to the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building on …
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