Gov. Paul LePage supports LD 1411, a bill that would prohibit the use of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for foods that are subject to the state's sales tax. That would rule out foods defined as 'junk foods' by the bill's primary sponsor, State Senator Roger Katz of Augusta. That would include soft drinks and certain snack foods.
There will be a job fair Thursday morning from 9 a.m. until noon at the Wilton Career Center at its office at 865 U.S.Route 2E in Wilton. More than a dozen of employers will be seeking to fill open positions.
Talk about Monday behaving like a Monday. A teenage girl was driving her Jeep as she was heading to class at Mount View High School. That's when it all hit the fan, a portable toilet fell onto her!
Skylar Laine, a top five finalist on season 11 on American Idol, will be singing the National Anthem at Tuesday night's Portland Sea Dogs game at Hadlock Field. The Sea Dogs will be taking on the Reading Fightin Phils at 6 p.m.
Gas prices in Maine inched lower by one penny a gallon this week, according to the gas monitoring website, MaineGasPrices.com. The average price for a gallon of gas in Maine is now at $3.48 a gallon.
There are many things I would love to check off on my Bucket List. Most are trips to different countries to see major landmarks like the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge and the Great Wall of China.
But some are things to challenge myself.
Ask farmer Peter Bragdon of Vassalboro, 'hey, what's up?' and he might just say 'yes, hay is what's up'. He just won a $300,000 Value Added Producer Grant that will help him manufacture a 'hay log' that can be used as fuel in fireplaces or wood stoves, according to the office of U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree.
Trying to find the perfect excuse to get out of a ticket is never easy.
The trend of gas prices dropping continued this week. Maine gas prices are down another 3 cents a gallon this week for an average price of $3.50. That's according to the gas price-monitoring website, MaineGasPrices.com.
I write this with a very heavy heart. I learned this morning, that an old friend of mine, Robert Michael Paul Roy, 33, died after a hit-and-run crash on Interstate 10 in Florida this past Sunday morning.
