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1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (234+ words) Bangor Township voters will decide on May 5 whether to approve an $8. 5 million bond for a new fire station, with the outcome determining if taxpayers will fund the project through an average $75 annual tax increase. BANGOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - Voters will…...

9+ hour, 3+ min ago  (158+ words) Maine (WMTW) - The third Monday in April marks Maine's observance of Patriots' Day, with this year marking the state's 120th celebration of the holiday. Maine started celebrating Patriots' Day in 1907, 13 years after Massachusetts began its own recognition of the holiday. Both…...

5+ hour, 33+ min ago  (174+ words) As the parent of a young adult with severe special needs, I've spent years navigating the emotional and physical demands of caregiving. My family is far from alone " hundreds of families across Maine, and thousands more across the country, face…...

5+ hour, 33+ min ago  (337+ words) A Connecticut-based company playing a key role in building the backbone on the Maine Online Optical Statewide Enabling (MOOSE) Network project has opened an office in Sidney to serve as the center for its construction, engineering and logistics work as…...

5+ hour, 33+ min ago  (831+ words) Nearly a year after complaints surfaced about a Bangor-based wedding caterer named Bethany Marie Gregory, the Maine Attorney General's Office has secured a judgment against her and one of her business aliases, TTT A Tides Continuation. The state will now…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago  (173+ words) This small Downeast community'is'famous'for fly fishing in its namesake stream and'crystal clear'lakes,'but'visitors can'catch'a much bigger prize:'a'chance to slow down and savor the way life used to be'before it got so busy.' Grand Lake Stream is not on the…...

16+ hour, 3+ min ago  (1810+ words) Maine has this way of making everything else feel far away. As you drive, the road winds through forests, small towns, and low mountain ridges, opening up to some of the most beautiful lakes in the Northeast. Each stop feels…...

11+ hour, 19+ min ago  (169+ words) HARTLAND, Maine (WABI) - Country music fans were gathering in Hartland Sunday. The Maine Country Music Hall of Fame was hosting its 3rd Annual Unplugged show at the Irving Tanning Community Center. The all-acoustic show was a fundraiser for the hall of…...

22+ hour, 48+ min ago  (1644+ words) Some bowls of clam chowder are good, and some completely reshape expectations of what soup can be. At a no-frills diner on Portland's working waterfront in Maine, the chowder belongs firmly in that second category. This longtime spot has drawn…...

1+ day, 13+ min ago  (1629+ words) Picture an elevator rising straight into the sky, opening into a glass-walled observatory about 420 feet in the air, with its highest level reaching 447 feet above the Penobscot River. The view reveals a sweeping Maine landscape, where forested hills, winding water,…...