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A resolution, proposed by Councilors Mike Morris and Jay Coelho, calls on the city to “recognize the titles of all holidays as determined by the state.” For many Native Americans across the country, including the Aroostook Band of Micmacs, celebrating Columbus Day is the equivalent of justifying the explorer’s cruelty and violence toward the Native Americans. For fisherman John Kirk, day trips to East Outlet offered a refuge from the world and hard to find peace. The move comes after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked plans to include a citizenship question in its 2020 population count. Dale Holloway, 37, is the stepson of a minister from the same church who was shot to death Oct. 1 in Londonderry. Gordon Sondland, Trump's hand-picked ambassador to the European Union, is among administration officials being subpoenaed to appear on Capitol Hill this week against the wishes of the White House. A handful of states are celebrating their first Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday as part of a trend to move away from a day honoring Christopher Columbus. Scott Baxter was released over the weekend from Maine Medical Center in Portland, where he had been since suffering critical injuries in the Sept. 16 blast. I might be a crazy tree hugger, but I’m a very happy tree hugger. Belfast Police Chief Mike McFadden blames the site on a grassroots effort this summer by concerned citizens and a city employee to give camping gear to people who needed temporary shelter. Todd Finn, a former U.S. Army paratrooper who started his job on July 1, wants to turn around Lewiston's nine schools and, in the process, residents' attitudes about their home city. Larry Wahl doesn’t know whether he will recoup the $600,000 he plans to spend refurbishing Wilson Hall, but the businessman is determined to finish the job. Like many rural communities in Maine, and the state as a whole, Eastport has been fighting and mostly losing a demographic battle for decades. Andrew Sherman, 48, was found dead in his Kimball Street home Friday evening. |
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