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With the blessing of E.B. White’s family, the fair, which starts Thursday, has built a new permanent exhibit that recreates a barnyard scene out of Charlotte’s Web, White’s beloved 1952 children’s book that was partially inspired by the fair.
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The nurses voted Wednesday and Thursday whether to decertify their union, and the pro-union contingent prevailed 74% to 26%, according to the Maine State Nurses Association.
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The city of Bangor has chosen a Wabanaki artist to create a piece of public art to cover up an exhaust pipe that’s part of the recently completed 3.8 million-gallon sewage overflow tank project on the waterfront.
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A large metal piece of aircraft debris crashed outside the main entrance of the State House in Augusta on Friday, narrowly missing a security screener.
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Gov. Janet Mills’ political family was a unique asset in her kitchen cabinet during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both sister Dora, the chief health improvement officer for MaineHealth, and brother Peter, the governor’s older brother and the head of the Maine Turnpike Authority, shared notes both informal and formal as the state scrambled to fight the pandemic.
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Clammers up and down the coast report that access points to the mud are rapidly disappearing as new people buy up homes and aren’t interested in continuing old handshake agreements that allowed clammers to cross their property to get out onto the flats.
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Bangor is reviving a proposal to ban flavored tobacco sales after a previous rule the City Council passed was repealed because the city failed to give enough notice to affected tobacco retailers.
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While someone every summer will claim it’s the worst bug season yet, there is scientific evidence to back up the claim this year as experts point to factors such as clean water legislation and climate change.
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A federal loophole is keeping Mainers in the dark about which manufacturers are discharging PFAS in their waste as the state prepares to spend millions to address contamination.
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They've joined hundreds of other Starbucks stores across the country that have sought union representation since last summer.