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October 28, 2024. By Stuart Hedstrom, Staff Writer BANGOR — Foxcroft Academy jumped out to a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter during a Class D North football game at John Bapst Memorial High School on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. …
How ranked-choice voting will work in Maine’s 2024 elections
14 hours ago · Ranked-choice voting only applies to elections with more than two candidates. It differs from traditional elections in which a candidate who gets a plurality of votes wins. Voters can choose multiple candidates in order of their preference. A winner is declared if a candidate wins an outright majority in the first round of voting.
Piscataquis County emergency radio system project progresses
11 hours ago · DOVER-FOXCROFT — For more than four years Piscataquis County and municipal emergency officials have been working to update outdated infrastructure and long-running problems with the county’s radio communications for emergency personnel. After delays due to questions on funding sources, the endeavor …
A doomed flag shift and 3 other lessons from a surprising poll of …
3 days ago · By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff. The long-discussed effort to change Maine’s state flag is heading toward defeat, according to a surprising poll released Friday that carried other lessons ahead of the Nov. 5 elections. The SurveyUSA poll was commissioned by the electoral reform group FairVote and the Bangor Daily News.
Maine students experience what it’s like to be lost on Katahdin
3 days ago · By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli, Houlton Pioneer Times Staff For 98 minutes, about 1,600 school kids, from Millinocket to Fort Fairfield, will be transported into the sometimes terrifying tale of the boy who survived alone in the harshest of Maine landscapes. Throughout November, students from 13 school districts are slated …
Obituaries | Piscataquis Observer
Judith E. Dickie, 82, passed away surrounded by her family on October 17, 2024. She was born on December 14, 1941, in Keene, NH, to Ethel and Joseph Favreau. She attended school in Gardner, MA, graduating from Gardner High School in 1959. She worked at Simplex Time Recorder before moving to Sebec Village in 1982....
New poll finds Jared Golden and Donald Trump leading Maine’s …
4 days ago · By Billy Kobin, Bangor Daily News Staff. A new poll released the Friday before the Nov. 5 election found that Maine’s 2nd District is on track to split its votes between U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and former President Donald Trump for the second straight presidential election.. The most surprising aspect of SurveyUSA’s exclusive poll for the electoral reform group FairVote and the Bangor Daily ...
4 things the scant polls of Maine tell us to expect on Election Day
Oct 27, 2024 · Trump’s lead in the 2nd District seems healthy. One of the more surprising findings from a Maine poll this cycle was an August poll from the University of New Hampshire finding Harris up by 5 percentage points in the 2nd District, which Trump won in 2016 and 2020 and is expected to win again. That looks like a significant outlier now.
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Nearly 270,000 Mainers have voted by absentee ballot. By Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff Almost 270,000 Mainers voted by absentee ballot as of Tuesday, with Democrats leading the way exactly a week before Election Day but Republicans seeing historic levels of early voting in the hotly contested 2nd Congressional District. 2 days ago.
Storm knocks out power to region, floods roads - Piscataquis …
Dec 20, 2023 · A wind and rain storm that left nearly 420,000 across Maine without power knocked out electricity across Piscataquis County and the surrounding areas Monday into Tuesday and beyond for some, forcing schools and businesses to close, and flooded many roads including some of the major travelways. On its Facebook page, the Piscataquis County Emergency Management Agency is keeping a regularly ...