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Warmer days are upon us! I hope you are enjoying these beautiful spring days as much as I am.

Proposed Occupational Safety and Health Administration changes would increase requirements for training, equipment and more, and cost Alna more for firefighting, Fire Chief Mike Trask told selectmen April 25. He said the changes could decimate...

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department boasts some 3,300 sworn officers. Of those, more than 2,200 took home six-figures in compensation.

Alna joined the state Climate Resiliency Partnership on Thursday, Feb. 8 with the select board’s unanimous adoption of a resolution. By joining the program, the town becomes eligible for grants toward climate-focused municipal projects. Board member...

After months of talks, Alna selectmen Jan. 11 passed a policy for the roads committee. Final changes before the vote were to pull a reference to home rule, call the document a policy, and state: “The committee shall serve in an advisory capacity...

In 2023, Wiscasset and other towns dealt with how to get and keep workers, improve residents’ and businesses’ internet access and, in Wiscasset’s case, how to protect the wastewater treatment plant from the rising water of climate change...

A large, fierce-looking marine reptile with a mouthful of pointy teeth that made its home about 80 million years ago in Vancouver Island waters could soon become British Columbia's official fossil emblem.

A large, fierce-looking marine reptile with a mouthful of pointy teeth that made its home about 80 million years ago in Vancouver Island waters could soon become British Columbias official fossil emblem.

The rocky walk-in to Pinkham Pond remained an issue at the close of Alna selectmen’s Sept. 21 meeting after partly contentious talks continued among selectmen and between selectmen and the public. Second Selectman Steve Graham and Third Selectman...