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3 hrs ago | WMTW-TV Auburn

Maine researchers trying to determine tick season outlook

WELCOME BACK I'M TRACY SABOL. SUMMER IS ALMOST OFFICIALLY HERE, AND THAT MEANS MAINE IS APPROACHING IT'S PEAK SEASON FOR TICKS.

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Related Topix: Lyme Disease, Medicine, Health, Cumberland County, ME, Aroostook County, ME, South Portland, ME

4 hrs ago | Sun Journal

Former Newtown resident urges gun-sale background checks in Maine

A national push for laws that keep guns out of hands that would do evil with them came to Augusta on Monday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Chellie Pingree, Susan Collins, US Senate, Republican, Senator Angus King, Michael Bloomberh

5 hrs ago | Bangor Daily News

LePage vetoes Medicaid expansion, says 'Maine can do better'

Gov. Paul LePage on Monday vetoed legislation to expand Maine's Medicaid program, turning the focus back to majority Democrats to try and rally enough Republican votes to override it.

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Related Topix: Maine Government, Medicaid, Health, US Governors, Paul LePage, US News

5 hrs ago | WHIO

Maine gov vetoes Medicaid expansion for 2nd time

Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Monday vetoed a bill to expand Medicaid for a second time, leaving the proposal in limbo because the bill passed without a two-thirds majority in either chamber.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Maine Government, Medicaid, Health, US Governors, Paul LePage, US News

8 hrs ago | JD Supra

Under The Dome: Inside The Maine State House 6-14-13

Under the Dome: Inside the Maine State House is a weekly update that provides a high-level overview of recent activity at the Maine State House.

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Related Topix: Michael Michaud, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Governors, Paul LePage, Healthcare Law, Law

12 hrs ago | Kennebec Journal

Maine House passes partial rollback of GOP health-care law

A pair of Democratic-backed adjustments to Republicans' 2011 health-care reform law initially passed in the Maine House of Representatives on Monday.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Brunswick, ME, US Governors, Paul LePage, Aroostook County, ME, Easton, ME

16 hrs ago | District Administration

Yarmouth (Maine) schools name second interim superintendent in a year

William Michaud, 61, of Portland, was unanimously approved for the 11-month position Thursday during the committee's regular meeting.

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21 hrs ago | GreenBuildingAdvisor

Floating Offshore Wind Turbine is Launched in Maine

The prototype is the first of its kind in North America and follows five years of research and development at the University of Maine A floating wind turbine launched on May 31 in Maine is the first of its kind off the North American coast.

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Related Topix: University of Maine, Brewer, ME, Castine, ME, Orono, ME, Alternative Energy, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Kennebec Journal

Lab tracks Maine's tick time bomb

Melanie Renell and Jackie Allen trudged through the scrub and thin pine forest, wearing shin-high boots and extra-long winter socks and waving blanket-sized flags made out of broomsticks and corduroy fabric.

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Related Topix: South Portland, ME, Kennebunk, ME, Lyme Disease, Medicine, Health, Entomology, Science

Sun Journal

Maine MP unit that served in Afghanistan is back home

When the 488th Military Police Company arrived Saturday afternoon to the cheers of loved ones left home for a year while they served in Afghanistan, another family - one dressed in blue - stood in the back quietly waiting.

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Related Topix: Kennebec County, ME, Waterville, ME, Houlton, ME, US National Guard, US Military, Iraq, World News

Kennebec Journal

As final Trek Across Maine leg starts, cyclists put deadly accident behind them

Riding for a cause and stricken by a tragedy, those who had pedaled alongside the man killed by a tractor-trailer Friday morning said their mission, which is playing out on blacktopped roads across the state, has been transformed.

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Related Topix: Belfast, ME, Waterville, ME, Winslow, ME, Colby College

WCSH 6 Portland

Maine bishop ordains 3 as deacons

Malone is designating the three as transitional deacons during a ceremony Sunday at Portland's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

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The Harbor Times Soup

JOY gives grant to Waterfall Arts

Jumpstart Our Youth, part of Belfast Area High School's Jobs for Maine Graduates program, has awarded a $500 grant to Waterfall Arts to allow for full scholarships to the center's art education classes.

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Related Topix: Education Etc.

Bangor Daily News

University of Maine at Presque Isle grad overcomes obstacles, heads to medical school

Jonathan Stormer, center, with his wife, Meredith, who is cradling their son, Corban, while Jonathan holds their other son, Atlas.

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Related Topix: Presque Isle, ME, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Medicine, Osteopathy, Campbell University, Houlton, ME

Bangor Daily News

Healthy votes for Maine on reproductive rights, mail order prescriptions, synthetic pot

Paying Maine's remaining Medicaid debt to its hospitals and reducing the number of uninsured Mainers by expanding Medicaid eligibility under the federal Affordable Care Act have properly dominated lawmakers' public health agenda during the legislative session that's winding down in Augusta.

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Related Topix: Maine Government, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicaid, Health, Guilford, ME, Opinion

Boston Herald

Investigation continues into Maine bike fatality

Maine State Police say the driver of a tractor-trailer believed to have struck and killed a 23-year-old bicyclist near the start of the three-day, 180-mile Trek Across Maine fundraiser was unaware his truck might have hit the rider.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Bangor Daily News

What natural gas can do for Maine paper mills and workers

It's not everyday that we get to announce good news for Maine's manufacturing sector, but, with the Maine Legislature's recent overwhelming passage of the omnibus energy bill, we can.

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Related Topix: Maine Government, US Governors, Paul LePage, Opinion

Bangor Daily News

Protect offshore lobsters, guard Maine industry

The lobster industry in Maine is unique. Maine is one of the only places in the world where we have been harvesting lobsters for over 150 years and still have a successful fishery.

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Related Topix: Opinion

TwinCities

A 'Boo Radley' of the Maine woods? Not to all

When a 200-pound black bear was pawing around David Proulx's house here a couple of years ago, Proulx went out and shot it.

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Related Topix: Belgrade-Lakes, ME, Kennebec County, ME

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Bangor Daily News

Former Bangor High School students across the globe reflect on home, what might bring them back

There were 26 winners of the Superintendent's Award in Bangor High School's 2002 class.

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Related Topix: Bangor, ME, Education Etc., Bowdoin College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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