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Amtrak's Downeaster passenger rail service is adding more trains from Boston's North Station to Portland and Brunswick according to US News.

The last of ballots arrived this weekend in Augusta for the start of ranked choice vote counting in Maine's second congressional district according to Newscenter.

Messalonskee High School student Kaitlyn Berthiaume is the school’s sole cheerleader according to the Sun Journal.

The tribal ambassador from the Penobscot Nation asking the Skowhegan are SAD 54 to drop the nickname “Indians” for their high school sports teams according to the Sun Journal.

25 have died and over 100 missing in the California fires according to centralmaine.com.

A meeting with Hallowell and DOT officials with invitations to Lucky Garden owners and property abutters about the side walk according to centralmaine.com.

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