Just two years ago, Maine legalized the purchase and use of consumer fireworks. The Maine Legislature is considering a bill to repeal the law and four other measures that would add restrictions.
Maine gas prices dropped two cents per gallon this past to an average of $3.78 per gallon, that's according to the price monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com. While that is good news, Maine's average price per gallon is still 14 cents higher per gallon than the national average.
The B-98.5 Electricity Maine Kid Fest is coming up on April 7th at Champions at the Elm Plaza in Waterville. The show will feature the Berenstain Bears Live! Generations of families have enjoyed over 300 books, but now you can see them live! The Berenstain Bears are coming to Waterville!
The Bellator MMA will be coming to the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Thursday, March 21. Parts of the events will be televised live on Spike TV. Several Maine fighters will be part of the card.
The first ever Farmington Fire and Ice Festival is set for Saturday, March 9 in downtown Farmington. The event will feature fun, family activities, including snow tubing between Front and Main streets, an ice-carving demonstration by Wicked Good Ice, dog sled rides, a road race and snowshoe races. The day will wrap up with a fireworks show at 6:20 at Prescott Field.
Country superstar Kenny Chesney is coming in concert on August 7th to the Darling's Waterfront Pavilion in Bangor. The venue in Bangor has been bringing big shows to Bangor for four years and Waterfront Concerts chief promoter, Alex Gray, tells the Bangor Daily News that 'it's the biggest show in our four-year history.'
This year is shaping up to be a year of doing things I never thought I would ever do. Early in 2013, I was a ring announcer for a wrestling show at the Fairfield Community Center. Now, I am going to make my debut as a model?!
Last night at 6:03 p.m. a three-vehicle crash on the Memorial Bridge forced the Augusta Police to close the bridge for about 30 minutes.
The news for General Hospital fans just keeps getting more exciting as the show is celebrating it's 50th anniversary on ABC. The latest past cast members to return are Ingo Rademacher and Vanessa Marcil, who played 'Jax' and 'Brenda'.
Hostess filed for bankruptcy in January 2012 and this past November they shut down all of their operations. Including the Biddeford plant which employed 400 people. There is potential good news for those workers, Flowers Foods Inc., a Georgia based company, placed a bid of $360 million for five of Hostess' bread brands, including Wonder and Nature's Pride. The bid also included 38 warehouses and 20 bakeries.
