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Smallmouth Bass Menace: Maine Joined By Other States Trying To Get Rid Of Predatory Interloper
14+ min ago (219+ words) A number of states nationwide are joining forces with Maine to solve the smallmouth bass invasion. The smallmouth isn't native to most of the fishing holes in which it is now found. "Smallmouth are one of the most problematic fish…...
Schlitz Shelved After 177 Years As Demand For America's Working Man's Beer Drops
17+ min ago (231+ words) If you've got an unopened can of Schlitz on the kitchen shelf, hire a Brink's guard " it's now a collector's item. "The beer that made Milwaukee famous," as a longtime TV commercial went, is going bottoms up. Wisconsin Brewing Co....
Retired NHL Great Claude Lemieux Dies Of Suicide Days After Honorary Ice Appearance
59+ min ago (289+ words) Just three days after Claude Lemieux carried the torch in Montreal's Bell Centre before the Canadiens took on the Hurricanes in Game 3 of the NHL's Eastern Conference finals on Monday, he killed himself, TMZ reports. Lemieux, 60, was found hanging by…...
Janet Mills Holds Ceremonial Signing for Statewide Bell-to-Bell Cell Phone Ban at Westbrook High School
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (529+ words) Gov. Janet Mills (D) held an event at Westbrook High School earlier this week celebrating a new policy that was signed into law as part of the supplemental budget which bars students from having cell phones in public schools during the…...
Boston's Thumbsucking Sports Media Goes Down Big-Time - On Canoodling Pats Coach
1+ day, 46+ min ago (403+ words) Mike Vrabel skated through what was supposed to be a full-blown news conference Wednesday as not one alleged reporter asked one tough question. Podcaster Tony Farmer, who has been leading the nation's media in aggressively covering Vrabel's affair with ex-NFL…...
Midcoast Seafood Shack Named Best In Maine By Popular Worldwide Foodie Website
21+ hour, 18+ min ago (160+ words) Mc Loons Lobster Shack on Spruce Head began literally as nothing but a shack. It was used as a wholesale lobster-buying station for Mc Loons Lobster on Spruce Head, an island in South Thomaston just east of Rockland. "But in…...
Platner Campaign's Portnoy Outreach Backfires as Resurfaced Posts Fuel Difficult Week for Senate Bid
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (614+ words) Platner's campaign said it began airing an advertisement during Friday night's Red Sox game attacking private equity and Red Sox ownership, claiming the team had been "stripped for parts." The ad ended with Platner saying he approved the message because…...
Maine Coon Credited With Alerting Midcoast Maine Couple Of Carbon Monoxide
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (159+ words) Mojo is getting extra treats these days. The Maine Coon apparently suspected her owners" home was filling with deadly carbon monoxide. William Aboud tells the Midcoast Villager that one night earlier this month Mojo began loudly meowing like she had…...
House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill to Bar Institutional Investors from Buying Single-Family Homes with Bipartisan Support
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (292+ words) The U. S. House overwhelmingly passed a massive bipartisan housing bill on Wednesday that bars institutional investors from buying single-family homes, eases regulatory barriers to housing construction, and bans the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The letter specified that…...
Fine Arts Commissions Approves President Donald Trump's "Independence Arch"
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (804+ words) The U. S. Commission of Fine Arts moved Thursday to approve President Donald Trump's plan to construct a 250-foot commemorative arch in Washington, D. C. across from the Lincoln Memorial. The president announced his intention to pursue building "Independence Arch" during an October gathering…...