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Posted inCollege sports
Colby College opens $200 million athletic facility
The athletics complex might be the envy of some NCAA Division I universities.
Posted inBangor
Top Maine business group honors the late Woodrow Cross
The Maine State Chamber of Commerce has honored the late founder of Cross Insurance.
Posted inSports
Kershaw pitches Dodgers past Rays for 3-2 World Series lead
The ace pitcher’s ormidable resume has lacked two of the most satisfying achievements: a win deep in the World Series and a championship ring. He has one and lifted himself and his team to the verge of the second.
Posted inNational Politics
Democrats ask Mike Pence to skip Amy Coney Barrett vote over COVID-19 risk
Democrats said in a letter to Pence it’s “not a risk worth taking.”
Posted inPolitics
Jill Biden will make another campaign stop in Maine this week
It’s the latest in a slate of last-minute appearance from candidates and their surrogates with little more than a week left to go before the Nov. 3 election.
Posted inContributors
Geoengineering could be our last chance to stop an Arctic thaw
Retreating Arctic ice has already set alarm bells ringing throughout the scientific community.
Posted inMorning Update
Rangeley’s pandemic boom / Trump visit / School coronavirus testing
Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
Posted inDanby Ink
Fall circulars
Campaign mailers, many of them negative, are increasingly popular as the COVID-19 pandemic limits door-knocking.
Posted inNational Politics
Trump to escalate campaigning as Joe Biden steps up his travel
Trump is expected to hit nearly a dozen states in his last-ditch effort to recover ground from Democrat Joe Biden.
Posted inNational Politics
Senate to confirm Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court in highly partisan vote
Her confirmation was hardly in doubt as Senate Republicans seized the opportunity to install a third Trump justice.
Posted inNews
Maine schools haven’t been testing students for COVID-19, and that’s probably OK
There’s no clear answer as to whether schools should regularly test their students and teachers for the coronavirus, as colleges and universities in Maine and across the country are doing.
Posted inBusiness
Western Maine town sees coronavirus boom as people seek safe haven from pandemic
The first snowfall of the season blanketed Rangeley in mid-October, but a summer-like swell of traffic and bustling businesses on Main Street reflected our times: Many people never left because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted inNew England Patriots
Garoppolo shines as 49ers crush Patriots 33-6
Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo finished 20 of 25 passing for 277 yards with two interceptions in his first game against his former team.
Posted inSports
Brady’s 4 TD passes lead Buccaneers past Raiders
Tom Brady finished 33 for 45 for 369 yards, while also running for Tampa Bay’s first score on a 1-yard sneak in the first quarter.
Posted inPolitics
Trump touts action on fisheries in last-minute appeal to Maine voters at Levant orchard
Trump’s visit underscored the Republican president’s fixation on the one Electoral College vote from Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which he won in a historic 2016 split of the state by 10 percentage points.
Posted inWorld
Afghanistan claims killing an al-Qaida leader wanted by FBI
The reported death of Husam Abd al-Rauf, also known by the nom de guerre Abu Muhsin al-Masri, follows weeks of violence.
Posted inBangor
Man killed in Old Town shooting
Police are investigating the death of 42-year-old Derek Blyth after he was found dead at an Old Town residence on Saturday.
Posted inPolitics
Janet Mills says Trump ‘doesn’t care about’ Maine working people as he visits Bangor area
Three of Maine’s top Democrats greeted President Donald Trump with sharp criticism for his last-minute visit to the Bangor area on Sunday.
Posted inPolitics
Trump supporters ‘dropped everything and came’ when they heard about president’s visit
Supporters of President Donald Trump gathered by Bangor International Airport and at Treworgy Family Orchards on Sunday to await the president’s relatively impromptu visit to the area.