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Saturday | MaineToday

Area businesses get development funds

Businesses in Skowhegan and Anson are among six in Maine communities to share $590,000 awarded by the state Department of Economic and Community Development through its Community Development Block Grant program.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Village Soup

Thorndike Town News

THORNDIKE : What a wonderful T-shirt weather week. My daughter and I had fun trick or treating, seeing all her friends in their costumes.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

MaineToday

Good Will-Hinkley names temporary leader

When she was a child living in Clinton, Natalie S. Jones passed by the Good Will-Hinckley Home for Boys & Girls almost every day.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

The Exception Magazine

Question 2: Motor Vehicle Excise Tax

"Do you want to cut the rate of the municipal excise tax by an average of 55% on motor vehicles less than six years old and exempt hybrid and other alternative-energy and highly fuel-efficient motor vehicles from sales tax and three years of excise tax?" The proponent of this citizen initiative is Roy W. Lenardson of Scarborough.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

MaineToday

Skowhegan lowers value of 'white elephant'

Calling the former Solon Manufacturing Co. building on Island Avenue a white elephant, the Skowhegan Board of Assessors has reduced the building's value for taxation by almost half.

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WLBZ

Tuesday - October 27, 2009

As a member of the Finance Committee, Senator Snowe has worked at length on the Health Care Reform Act.

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

MaineToday

The dial-up dilemma frustrates rural Maine

The last mile. It's a term the telecom industry uses to define the distance from the edge of a service provider's network to a customer.

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

VillageSoup

House OKs $500,000 for Somerset EOC

Congressman Mike Michaud praised House passage of the conference report on H.R. 2892, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010.

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Wed Oct 21, 2009

Bangor Daily News

Amazing Maize Maze

David Govoni, 9, of Skowhegan leads the way through an 8-acre corn maze Monday at Thunder Road Farm in Corinna.

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Mon Oct 19, 2009

Bangor Daily News

Discount Label Shopper expanding

A discount, full-service clothing store chain that targets rural, under-served areas found an almost perfect location for its next outlet on West Broadway, one of its principals said Thursday.

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Sat Oct 17, 2009

Bangor Daily News

Living the ice cream dream

Production supervisor Joe Ramsdell takes some quart-sized containers to the filling machine at the Gifforda s Ice Cream plant in Skowhegan recently.

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Thu Oct 15, 2009

WLBZ

October 15, 2009

The Wiyos are performing in concert at One Longfellow Square in Portland on Thursday, October 15th at 7 PM and at the Skowhegan Opera House in Skowhegan on Friday, October 16th at 8 PM.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

MaineToday

Skowhegan: Building worth the price?

It has been called a lot of unflattering names since it was finally completed in 2008, but Skowhegan's Renaissance Building on Water Street has become a very public part of the downtown landscape, officials say.

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Village Soup

DuBack show opens at Portland Museum of Art

PORTLAND : A major show of paintings, collages and watercolors by Charles DuBack of Tenants Harbor will open Saturday, Oct.

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Sun Oct 11, 2009

MergeDigital

Nichola Gutgold: Powerful women embed messages in their style

T his month Secretary of State Madeleine Albright unveiled her collection of fashion pins at a New York museum.

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Wed Oct 07, 2009

Village Soup

Teens volunteer at Equestrian Special Olympics

CAMDEN : The Equestrian Special Olympics were held Sept. 26 in Skowhegan. Freedom Riders, a nonprofit organization in Warren that provides equine assisted activities and therapies to special needs children and adults, entered a team of nine riders ranging in age from 8 to 50 years old.

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Mon Oct 05, 2009

WABI-TV Bangor

Medication Collection Day

Do you have old, unwanted, unused medication in your cabinet that you need to get rid of, but aren't sure how to do it? Saturday residents of Somerset County can get rid of their old pills at a medication collection event in Skowhegan.

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Sat Oct 03, 2009

WLBZ

OSHA Proposes Fines For Alleged Safety Violations At Skowhegan Paper Mill

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is proposing fines of $136,000 dollars against SD Warren Paper Co.

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Fri Oct 02, 2009

Osha.gov

U.S. Labor Department's OSHA proposes $136,000 in fines against S.D. Warren Co. for hazards at Skowhegan, Maine, paper mill

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited S.D. Warren Co.

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Thu Oct 01, 2009

VillageSoup

Police weed out large pot grow operation

The following information was compiled Thursday, Sept. 24, by the Public Information Office for the Maine Department of Public Safety: Jeffrey LaGasse, 31, of New Portland, recently indicted by a Somerset County grand jury for murder, made his first court appearance Friday, Sept.

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