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Governor Lepage to Speak at Special Winthrop Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce Meeting

The Winthrop Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce is hosting a special meeting on Thursday June 6, featuring Maine Governor Paul LePage, who will speak about state-related matters. The meeting will be held at 7 am at the Winthrop High School Performing Arts Center (211 Rambler Road) in Winthrop. Paul Richard ...

Governor Lepage to Speak at Special Winthrop Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce Meeting

The Winthrop Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce is hosting a special meeting on Thursday June 6, featuring Maine Governor Paul LePage, who will speak about state-related matters. The meeting will be held at 7 am at the Winthrop High School Performing Arts Center (211 Rambler Road) in Winthrop. Paul Richard ...

Vienna man accused of stealing car in Jackman

JACKMAN, Maine — A 36-year-old Vienna man is facing multiple charges after stealing a car in Jackman and later totaling it in a crash on Monday night, police said. Shane Gurney had been attending a function in town and was intoxicated, according to Chief Deputy Dale Lancaster of the Somerset ...

If a shadow appears in your vision, don’t risk going blind like I did

It started late on a Thursday afternoon last May, when I noticed a wispy dark shadow in the lower left corner of my right eye. At first, I didn’t worry about it. But being 62 at the time — a baby boomer — I should have. For years, I have ...

Dawn Hill, Troy Jackson stand up for what’s right

On Sunday, during an emergency meeting of the Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, Sen. Dawn Hill, D-York, did something that’s very hard. She stood up to the governor of the state, in full public view, with the cameras rolling. She held her ground, and she did the right thing, ...

Speed, alcohol believed to be factors in Mattawamkeag car crash

MATTAWAMKEAG, Maine — Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a single-vehicle crash that left a local man with a broken leg on Tuesday. Deputy Patty McLaughlin of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that speed and alcohol are believed to be factors in a Shay Road crash involving Carl Hartley, 44, ...

Mid Coast Hospital To Offer Free Skin Cancer Screening

Mid Coast Hospital is hosting a FREE skin cancer screening on Saturday, June 22, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Board Certified Dermatologists Helge Riemann, MD and Nancy Egan, MD along with Susan Leveille, NP, and Mary Mraz, NP (both Nurse Practitioners specializing in Dermatology) will provide their services ...

Medical mystery: A clue to a girl’s painful ailment long overlooked

“Oh my God,” Leigh Partridge remembers thinking, her mind reeling as she tried to contemplate the unimaginable. “This cannot be happening again.” Doctors in the emergency room of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) had just told Partridge that a mass in the abdomen of her 16-year-old daughter might be cancer. ...

Consumers who saw TV drug ads more likely to be prescribed medication

I learned last week about two prescription drugs I’d never heard of before — not from my doctor, but from TV commercials. Axiron is applied like deodorant — under your arm. Well, under the arm of a man who has low testosterone and has been prescribed the product by a ...

FBI kills Florida man with suspected ties to Boston bomb suspect

MIAMI, Fla. — An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on Wednesday, NBC News reported. NBC said the suspect was being questioned and was originally cooperative, but was fatally shot after attacking the agent. The Orlando Sentinel said a ...