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READ GWI'S filing asking a judge to rule on its dispute with FairPoint. A long-running court dispute involving FairPoint Communications and Great Works Internet of Biddeford is coming to a head, with FairPoint threatening to pull the plug on some of Great Works' key business circuits if it doesn't pay $3 million by Dec.

November 9, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: BILL NORBERT 620-3540 242-1236 MAINE ARTWORK ON DISPLAY AT FAME The Finance Authority of Maine currently is displaying the work of J. Donna Asmussen, a professional Maine artist specializing in watercolor, with additional focus in printmaking.

Reporters at the Associated Press are clearly unhappy that Maine voters turned out to refuse to honor "gay marriage" at the ballot box.

Area students have enrolled this fall at Colby College. Before classes began, each student took part in an orientation that included an introduction to Colby's rigorous academics, rich cultural life, and community involvement opportunities as well as a three-day outdoor excursion.

By Kirsten Korosec Geoengineering - the concept of deliberately manipulating the earth's climate system to counteract climate change - made its debut in Congress this week, which I suppose makes it officially "mainstream." The House's Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing on geoengineering - the first serious congressional review of ...

Wood engraving of the pro-slavery mob burning down Winthrop Sargent Gilman's warehouse.

In one ad after another, voters in California and Maine were besieged with images of what would supposedly happen if same-sex marriage were legal: Students on a field trip to a lesbian wedding, elementary kids gobbling up books featuring gay couples, kindergartners learning about homosexuality from their teachers.

LEWISTON a ' Television ads about gay marriage made the difference in the yes side winning on Question 1 in Tuesday's election, political experts said Wednesday.

ROCKLAND : The Flix Mix film series will continue Sunday, Nov. 1 at 3 p.m. at the Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., with the animated fairy tale "Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest." Flix Mix is an eclectic mix of art films, screened throughout the fall and accompanied by thoughtful conversation.

Colby College announced the following free public November events. Twenty Years after the Berlin Wall: An Interdisciplinary Round Table Tuesday, Nov.

A Halloween parade, of sorts, wound its way around part of Waterville - encouraging young girls to get scary this holiday, instead of sexy.

Global warming and the resulting droughts help make climate manipulation a hotly debated issue.

Area students enrolled at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, this fall. Before classes began, each student took part in an orientation that included an introducion to Colby's rigorous academics, rich cultural life, and community involvement opportunities as well as a three-day outdoor excursion.

Lottery income is up for the first three months of the state fiscal year -- a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy report that showed total state revenues down by $42 million.

As I contemplate another career change, I admit to a lurking sense of unease. ... The most consistent factor in my life has been growing peas.

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Mark McAuliffe, a managing partner of Apothecary by Design on Marginal Way in Portland, is in favor of TABOR because he believes that it will lure business and economic development to the state.

Reporting from Darfur in 2006, reporter Paul Salopek was imprisoned for five weeks.

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Stephen Smith was so happy with GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe's health-reform vote that he stood on the steps of his Deering Street home Tuesday night and wrote her a letter.