Representative Chellie Pingree News

Chellie Pingree announced Dec. 9 that Maine would receive more than $350,000 in two Save America's Treasures Grants to restore and preserve two dynamic pieces of Maine history - the 82-year-old oyster boat J & E Riggin in Rockland, and, in Saco, an 800-foot representation of "Pilgrim's Progress" painted in 1851.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree announced the Census Bureau is accepting applications in Maine for people to conduct the 10-year survey.

Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills and three members of Maine's congressional delegation have joined 37 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to apply its decision issued last year in the Washington, D.C., gun ban case to every municipality and state in the nation.

Federal grants have been approved to restore two of Maine's historic artifacts. The grants totaling $350,000 will cover the restoration and preservation of the 82-year-old oyster boat J & E Riggin in Rockland, and in Saco, an 800-foot moving panorama depicting "Pilgrim's Progress" painted in 1851.

The House voted Wednesday to extend $31 billion in popular tax breaks, including an income tax deduction for sales and property taxes, to be financed with a tax increase on investment fund managers and a crackdown on international tax cheats.

Senior administration officials signaled yesterday that the United States will continue to commit a significant number of troops and substantial funding to Afghanistan for many years to come, despite a July 2011 deadline set forth by the president last week to begin a drawdown.

PORTLAND, Maine a ' The U.S. Census Bureau is hanging out the help wanted sign in Maine.

Warning signs have been placed at the Scribner's Mill bridge between Harrison and Otisfield because concerns were raised about the condition of the span.

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When President Barack Obama stood in front of cadets at West Point Military Academy in New York Tuesday night and announced that 30,000 more troops would be deployed to Afghanistan, he acknowledged that the move would not be universally popular.

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It may seem early for the 2010 congressional campaign to start, but the fields in both of Maine's congressional districts are starting to take shape.

Gov. John Baldacci is submitting a request to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to continue Maine's waiver from requirements of the Real ID law that take effect Jan.

Thanksgiving is a day for family, friends and altogether too much food. Even the Maine congressional delegation, whose day-to-day lives are different than most - weathering elections and long floor battles, allocating billions in federal funds to help the folks back home - will give their power suits a break and celebrate a largely traditional ...

I'd like to thank U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud for voting for the health care bill.

The nation's health care "system" is the Titanic. Comparable ships of state cost half as much to operate, but are twice as seaworthy.

Vinalhaven residents Jessie Creelman, 11, and Hannah Noyes, 11, celebrate the three wind turbines in their community with pinwheels during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday, Nov.

The Fox Islands wind project dedicated its turbines in a morning ceremony on the island of Vinalhaven, Tuesday.

With most of Maine and New Hampshire's congressional delegations throwing their support behind an application to rehabilitate the Memorial Bridge with federal funds, all that remains is to gear up for the federal government's decision on that application.

With the nation's unemployment rate reaching a 26-year high at 10.2 percent, there was one hopeful sign - for the third straight month, there was a rise in temporary help jobs being filled in October, which can serve as a prelude to growth in permanent jobs.