They have been training for a while and today they receive their official "license" to serve!
Fourteen police officers and their dogs graduate from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy starting at 10am today. One of those graduates is close to my heart!
It looks like Mother Nature will be cooperating with the American Lung Association's Trek Across Maine. Hundreds of bicycle riders will start the 180 mile, 3-day, trek across Maine on Friday morning.
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife estimates that Maine has 76,000 moose. The annual Maine moose permit lottery on Saturday will produce a record 4,110 permits.
NewPage paper company will temporarily lay off around 120 hourly maintenance workers next week, that's according to mill spokesman Anthony Lyons. Lyons told the Lewiston Sun Journal that the layoffs are a 'cost containment and money-saving' move.
It looks like the circus is coming to New England.
According to multiple published reports, the New England Patriots are expected to sign free agent quarterback/media magnet Tim Tebow.
Two of country music most successful songwriters, with impressive Nashville resumes, will be appearing in the first Maine Songwriters Series at the Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch this Thursday, June 13th.
As Mainers take to the road as the weather warms up, some good news, gas prices remained stable this week. The gas monitoring website, MaineGasPrices.com, reports that a gallon of gas in Maine is at $3.56 a gallon.
Four-year-old Jaydon Talbot of Harmony is recovering from the amputation of his right leg after he was caught in the blades of a lawn mower his father was driving. The accident happened this past Wednesday evening, when the boy's father was cutting the grass at their home.
News of a middle school student being denied school lunch at J.A. Leonard Middle School this week because a parent owed money on the account, has Mainers offering to solve the problem.
Elizabeth Ireland from Old Town was angry after she found out that her 11-year old son was denied a hot lunch at J.A.Leonard School earlier this week. Ireland owed $53 on her son's school lunches, and as of this past Monday until the end of the school year, students who owe money on their school lunch accounts won't be fed, that's according to RSU 34 Superintendent David Walker.
