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AUGUSTA, Maine – The acting deputy director for the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL), under the Maine Department of Conservation, has been awarded the 2011 Elliot Bates Stewardship Award by the Androscoggin Land Trust. Katherine Eic...

 

Augusta, Maine- December Countdown Underway toward Goal of More than $300,000 Governor Paul R. LePage and Commissioner Anne Head from the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation announced Friday that the Maine State ...

 

AUGUSTA, Maine – Attorney General William J. Schneider announced that Aaron Doherty, 51, of Millbridge was convicted following his pleas of guilty to three felony counts of Failure to Make and File Maine Income Tax Returns for tax y...

 

Dresden, Maine – Federal officials have announced the awarding of $10.8 million in TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant money for replacement of the Richmond-Dresden Bridge, formally known to the MaineDOT as t...

 

AUGUSTA, Maine – Attorney General William J. Schneider announced that Sarah E. Fairbanks, 40, of Brunswick, was sentenced today in Cumberland County Superior Court. Fairbanks was convicted by a jury on November 30, 2...

 

Augusta, Maine- The Maine State Lottery will be at 2 locations this coming weekend for shoppers to conveniently purchase lottery tickets for people on their “hard to buy for“ Christmas list. Lottery staff will be at ...

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins have announced their nominees to the United States Military Academies.  Allyson Strachan of Hebron, a student at Hebron Academy, has been nominated to attend the United State...

 

Rumford, Maine- All of us at River Valley Sun have been pleased to join the friends and family of Candice Casey, the community, and those around the country and world in congratulating our publisher on her acceptance into one of the best law schoo...

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) today issued the following comment after the Senate voted on the cloture motion regarding the nomination of Mr. Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

 

AUGUSTA, Maine – Gov. Paul LePage has signed an executive order requiring any new or expanded state building construction to use an expanded set of “Green Building” standards as part of its design, construction, operation and mai...