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|Hannah Beem Blackburn|
If you live in or around New Gloucester, chances are you have come over the top of Gloucester Hill on your way to the Lower Village, and slowed to a stop as the view over the pasture there took your breath away.
Now that land is up for sale with a proposed house to be built on it, that has already been approved by the planning board.  
A dedicated group of local citizens are working hard to raise funds and awareness, to purchase this spectacular piece of land, put it into a trust, preserve it’s history as a pasture, and to make sure this remains a special landmark, catching the breath of generations to come.

If you are able to help, we would appreciate any amount you can manage. Continue reading

|Alexandra Hall, Boston Globe Correspondent|
NORTH YARMOUTH, Maine — The road to The Purple House is an eclectic and curious one. After driving past the town’s gold- and green-flecked cow pastures, a retired train car selling handmade ice cream, a gigantic Trump lawn sign, a road called Fairy Tale Lane, and an elite equestrian school, you finally spot a cabin the color of raspberry sherbet so small, it looks like a Hobbit might live in it. Pull into its dirt driveway and, if the place is open, you notice the cars — lots of them — bearing license plates from all over the country. Or, if you happen to roll up in the early fall when the restaurant hasn’t opened yet for the fall season, odds are good you’ll run into Krista Kern Desjarlais, the Jacques Torres- and Guy Savoy-trained chef-owner. She’s usually there by herself in the weeks before reopening, pulling up weeds in the garden, and otherwise getting the place ready. Continue reading

| State Representative Amy Arata |
I am in the unique position of having worked on budgets at three different levels of government. I’ve served on the New Gloucester budget committee, the MSAD 15 budget committee, and now on the Maine State Legislature’s Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs.  My experience has been that it’s best to keep the money as close to those who earned it as possible.  I trust you, the taxpayer, as the most qualified to decide how your money should be spent.  I’m happy to tell you that I’ve worked hard with my colleagues in the Legislature to give you back more of your hard-earned money.  We made three changes to Governor Mills’ proposed budget to give you property tax relief.

|Charles Eichacker, Bangor Daily News Staff |

Hannaford has recalled all white American cheese featuring the store’s brand that was sold from its delis over the past month, warning that it may contain metal fragments.

The recall applies to any Hannaford brand white American cheese that was purchased between Sept. 8 and Oct. 8. The store urges customers to not eat the cheese. It will provide refunds to anyone who returns cheese purchased during that time. Continue reading