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Luxury living in Ogunquit, Maine: Four new $2 million homes coming soon
Greetings! Welcome to another Friday and to the latest dispatch from your Coast Star Connection! How is it that Labor Day Weekend is here and that summer as we tend to think of it is practically over? As you launch the three-day weekend and celebrate summer's last hurrah, here are some recent Coast Star stories for you for those moments of rest as you gear up for the return of the busy season that awaits . ....
City of Ellsworth introducing payment plan for seniors affected by 30% tax increase
ELLSWORTH -- The City of Ellsworth is starting a program that aims to help seniors pay off their property taxes. According to Ellsworth tax assessors, a state program for those 65 and older froze property taxes last year. They say the program was repealed for being too expensive and those...
Self Checkout Lanes Are Likely Doomed at Walmart in Scarborough, Maine
What seemed like a great idea just a few short years ago is feeling like one giant disaster at Walmart in Scarborough, Maine. If you haven't visited the Walmart in Scarborough recently, you've avoided what has become a major pain point and nuisance for those customers that regularly shop at that location. Walmart is known for "rolling back" prices but what they seem to be doing is rolling back the usage of self-checkout lanes.
Purchase of Tozier’s Searsport aims to revive a lost community hub
SEARSPORT, Maine (WABI) - The lights of the former Tozier’s Family Market store in Searsport will turn on once again under a new name. The space was purchased by Edwards Brothers Supermarkets. Tozier’s suddenly closed in July and in an interview with TV-5 the owner explained why. “With...
University of Maine at Augusta has record-breaking amount of incoming students causing some to live in hotels
AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) - U-Maine Augusta is expecting their biggest class of freshmen in the school’s history. Due to this, some students are living in a nearby hotel. Nearly 300 on-campus freshmen are coming into U.M.A. A record for the school that is entering its fifth year of hosting students on campus.
Rockland Public Library seeks submissions for Tiny Art Show
ROCKLAND — Rockland Public Library invites local community members to share their artistic talents. The Library is seeking submissions for a Tiny Art Show. Artists ages 14 years and older can pick up a tiny art kit starting Monday, Sept. 9 through Thursday, Sept. 25 (or while supplies last). Participants can choose a painting kit that includes a 3″x3″ canvas and easel, acrylic paints, and brushes or sculpture kit with air-dry clay, brushes, and acrylic paints. Adding to the provided supplies is encouraged as long as everything fits on the tiny canvas and the sculpture doesn’t get too big.
Lots of Cash Up for Grabs at Maine’s Oxford Casino Hotel Over Labor Day Weekend
With your help, Oxford Casino raises so much money to fight breast cancer here in Maine. Plus, you could walk away a huge winner too!. The 22nd Cans For a Cure is in the making. Over the last two decades, you've helped us raise over half a million dollars to help Mainers battling breast cancer one can at a time. We cannot thank Oxford Casino enough. They've made Breast Cancer Awareness Month twelve months long!
York residents question $4M purchase of 42.35 acres of Long Sands Beach
YORK, Maine — Residents questioned the value of owning a significant portion of Long Sands Beach Monday in a public hearing on the land’s proposed sale to the town for $4 million. A court battle over public access at Moody Beach in Wells has residents questioning whether buying the mostly undevelopable beach land owned by the Norton Estate is worth $4 million, along with $1.2 million in interest that a loan would cost. Depending on how a...
To stay open, Windham Elementary fought for independence. It closed anyway
On a cold, gray Saturday in March, about a third of all the people living in Windham crammed into the town’s more than 220-year-old white clapboard meetinghouse. One item in particular had driven turnout on this Town Meeting Day: a ballot article that would permanently shutter Windham’s tiny elementary school. It was the third time in three years that the question would be posed to Windham’s 500 residents.
UMaine Women’s Basketball Team Announces Non-Conference Schedule
The University of Maine Women's Basketball Team announced their non-conference schedule for games November 4th - December 29th. The Black Bears will begin the season at home on November 4th against La Salle University on Monday November 4th and then follow that with a game against the University of Pennsylvania on Sunday, November 10th.
Two Mainers Charged After Using Counterfeit Bills for Bail
Do people actually think they're usually smarter than the police?. I know that's a bit of a rhetorical question, but on the other hand, it happens. But I always wonder, why does one person think they can always outsmart a team of people? Or why do they try to outwit an organization whose sole purpose is dedicated to one thing? Chances are, when it's just you against all of them, you're going to lose.
Man stops in Bangor as he walks North America to raise funds for ALS
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - One man is on day 21 of a long walk across North America for a cause. 26-year-old Liam Elmes is raising awareness for ALS after the illness hit too close to home. The Ireland native is an avid traveler, in fact he backpacked with his parents...
New Aroma Joe’s to open on Route One in Saco
For those who look forward each morning – and afternoon? and evening? – to a bracing cup of java, there’ll soon be another local option. A new Aroma Joe’s location will be opening at 2 Cascade Road in Saco in mid-October. Aroma Joe’s, which describes itself...
Wanted man jumps from Auburn roof trying to escape police
AUBURN, Maine — A wanted fugitive was arrested in Auburn Wednesday after trying to make a dramatic escape from police. The U.S. Marshal's Service says Matthew Gallagher, 34, of Lewiston, was wanted by the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office for theft of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and criminal threatening with a firearm and by the Maine Department of Corrections for a probation violation.
Blue Hill Fair returns for another year
BLUE HILL, Maine (WABI) - The Blue Hill Fair gets underway at 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon. Fairgoers get in for the low price of $1 Thursday. There will be rides, livestock, tractor pulls and live concerts. Nashville country recording artist Aaron Tippin will be among those performing, he takes the...
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