Sugar Prices Fall Across Maine in March Marketbasket Survey
The Associated Press report shows a March dip in sugar and 16 staple items across Maine, with savings ranging from under 1 percent in Lewiston to 5 percent in Bangor. Prices dropped 2.2 percent Ellsworth and 3 percent Millinocket, 3.5 percent Portland, while Kittery saw a 1.6 percent rise.
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Jerry Harkavy
Associated Press
Maine
Lewiston
Bangor
Ellsworth
Portland
Kittery
Colby Exhibit To Open At Colby Art Museum
Colby Art Museum in Waterville will open a Maine photographs exhibition Sunday with a public reception from 4 to 6 p.m. First, second and third prize winners will be announced at 5 p.m. The biennial show, organized by the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities, drew over nine hundred entries and selected 31 works by amateur and professional photographers. Jurors included Berenice Abbott, Harry Callahan, and Bhupendra Karia. The show runs through May 11 and will tour the state next year.
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Waterville
Maine
Colby Art Museum
Maine State Commission On the Arts and Humanties
Berenice Abbott
Harry Callahan
Rhode Island School of Design
Bhupendra Karia
International Center of Photography
New York
Kenneth Kuenster
Lincolnville
Wyeth Museum Opens After Olson House Renovation
Olson House undergoes spring cleaning ahead of a state owned Wyeth museum opening featuring Christina's World backdrop. Shutters will stay down for the summer as the house opens July and August showing Wyeth sketches per parks timetable.
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Cushing
Olson
Andrew Wyeth
Christina
Wyeth
Joseph E. Levine
Parks Department
Man Fatally Injured In West Buxton Car Crash
Clyde Hersom, 49, of West Buxton, died after a one vehicle crash on Rankin Road in York County. Investigators said the car failed to negotiate a curve and went into a ditch before he died at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
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Buxton
West Buxton
York County
Clyde Hersom
Maine Medical Center
Portland
Coastal states seek half the oil revenue from offshore reserves
Attorneys general from 14 coastal states plan a Congress bill to share 50 percent of Outer Continental Shelf royalties with states. They propose 37.2 percent for each coastal state and 12.42 percent for all states, to fund coastal services and environmental safeguards.usumik
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Washington
U.S Supreme Court
Congress
U.S. Supreme Court
Miller
Virginia
Rogers C.B. Morton
Ford
Miler
Sec
Fish Planting Idea Traced to Old World Not Indians
Boston AP reports folklore claims Pilgrims planted fish with crops copied from Indians. An expert counters that the custom is European in origin and Indians knew nothing of it. The 1621 Thanksgiving story notes the harvest credited to farming in the manner of the Indians.
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Boston
New World
Science
Ceci
Cape Cod Bay
Massachusetts
Squanto
Maine lobster trap limit plan draws coastal support
Maine lawmakers Rep. Patrick Jackson Jr. and Rep. Lawrence Greenlaw Jr. back a license and trap ceiling to curb overfishing. They say four license classes would set trap caps from 600 to 25, aiming to protect a renewable resource and local incomes amid concerns the industry could decline without regulation.
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Augusta
Maine
Patrick Jackson Jr
Yarmouth
Jackson
Lawrence P. Greenlaw Jr
Stonington
Greenlaw
Haddock
Geroges Bank
Department of Marine Resources
State To Get HEW Money Despite Penalty
Augusta AP: Maine will recover $891000 in federal HEW funds after officials cited unemployment and weak economy as reasons for not imposing the penalty. HEW had planned to deduct the amount July 1 for welfare payment errors, but will reinstate and assist the state by July 1 if needed. Maine ranked among the 15 states with low error rates in a federal six month study.
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Augusta
Health and Welfare
David E. Smith
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Smith
HEW
Maine
Bath Iron Works to overhaul U S S Biddle in 8.5 million contract
The guided missile frigate U S S Biddle returns to Bath Iron Works on April 17 under an 8.5 million Navy contract for alteration and modernization. Sen. Edmund S Muskie announced the deal during ceremonies for the U S S Mahan. Up to 400 officers and crewmen will be stationed in the Bath Brunswick area for about 11 months, ensuring near full employment into 1976.
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BATH
U.S.S. Biddle
Bath Iron Works
Edmund S. Muskie
Dmaine
U.S.S. Mahan
Muskie
Bath-Brunswick
Newport Mansion Ejects Porn Film Crew Over The Room
Martin T. Carey brother of Gov Hugh Carey ordered a film crew off his 60 room Newport mansion after learning a pornographic movie titled The Room was being shot directed by Gerard Damiano. Filming began last Wednesday and was to run through the weekend with claims of student training films as the project, while local officials said indoors filming needed no interference.
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Newport
R.I
Martin T. Carey
New York
Hugh Carey
Gerard Damiano
Carey
Damiano
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