Mt. Desert Fire Trucks
(Mt. Desert) – It might look like the Mt. Desert Fire Department is a used fire truck dealer. The Mt. Desert Islander reports the department has sold a 22-year old pumper truck to Swan’s Island and a 25-year old truck to Stockton Springs. There’s a 3rd truck for sale – it’s going out for bid. Chances are the town won’t get much for it, as the 28-year old vehicle is not in very good shape. Mt. Desert will take delivery of a brand new pumper in the next few weeks.
Union Fire
(Union) – Firefighters from seven communities rushed to a burning home in Union early this morning. WABI-TV reports the 9-1-1 call came in at about 1:45 AM on the South Union Road. It’s now known how many people were in the building or whether they all made it to safety. The fire marshal’s office is expected at the scene.
Hot Car – Child
(Ellsworth) – Police in Ellsworth charged a 22-year old Sedgwick woman with endangering the welfare of a child after leaving her 2-year old in a hot car. Officers responded to a local business after a citizen reported seeing an unresponsive child in a car that was parked in the sun. The child is OK – she’d been napping. Police ticketed Shawntelle Gramolini and contacted the Department of Health and Human Services.
BPD-Narcan
(Belfast) Belfast police department is considering arming its officers with nasal Narcan. Chief Michael McFadden tells WABI-TV he has some reservations before he commits to and implements the program. Nasal Narcan is used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. But the medicine has a one-year shelf life and McFadden wants to ensure his officers aren’t carrying expired Narcan. It’s also temperature sensitive so it can’t be put in a cruiser and left there. And often times more than one does of Narcan is needed to revive a victim, so how many doses should an officer carry? McFadden says he’ll continue to do research before he launches the program.
AT&T Strike
(Ellsworth) Employees at AT&T Wireless in Ellsworth returned to work Monday after walking out Friday afternoon to protest failed contract negotiations. Employees picketed 9 AT&T stores in Maine, including the Myrick Street store. Public Relations manager Karen Twomey tells Star 97-7 AT&T has reached 29 agreements since 2015 covering over 128-thousand employees, and they’ll offer what she called “generous terms including annual wage and pension increases, and comprehensive healthcare benefits.” Twomey says stores remained open for business by preparing ahead.
Playground Dedication
(Sedgwick) – Sedgwick residents dedicated a new playground at the town’s school to principal Donald Buckingham. More than 30 local volunteers assembled equipment last weekend at Sedgwick Elementary School. Students built picnic tables and worked on landscape projects. The Sedgwick Community Playground Committee spent more than a year raising funds. Tuesday’s dedication recognized Dr. Buckingham for his 28-years of service to the Sedgwick School community.
Ranked Choice Voting
(Augusta) – Maine’s Supreme Court says the ranked choice voting law that Maine voters approved last November is unconstitutional. In its 44-page ruling released yesterday, the high court said the constitution in Maine clearly states that the governor and legislature are elected by plurality – meaning whoever has the most votes wins. The ranked choice method kicks in when no candidate gets a majority and the Secretary of State’s office would then revert to second choice votes to determine who wins the race. To adopt the ranked-choice system, voters would have to amend the constitution.
ATV Warnings
(Augusta) Maine officials are reminding the state’s many all-terrain vehicle users that ATVs wider than 5-feet are not allowed on many pieces of the state’s vast trail network. ATVs are a major tourism draw in Maine, and are made possible by agreements with private landowners who allow them on their land. State agencies say they brokered a deal with landowners based on a maximum width of five feet for ATVs.
Chicken Parts
(Portland) Police say a truck carrying chicken parts malfunctioned, spilling gallons of the poultry bits onto a Portland street early Tuesday morning. Residents dealt with a foul smell and motorists drove through the mess before it was cleared. Police closed the roadway and covered the spill with saw dust before reopening the road in time for the morning commute.
Google Tracking
(San Francisco) Google is keeping an eye on what you’re buying offline in addition to monitoring your online shopping in its latest attempt to sell more digital advertising. The offline tracking of most credit and debit card transactions will help Google to automatically inform merchants when their digital ads translate into sales at a brick-and-mortar store. Google believes the data will show a cause-and-effect relationship between online ads and offline sales. If it works, it could help persuade merchants to increase their digital marketing budgets. The Mountain View, California, company already runs the world’s biggest online ad network, with $79 billion-dollars in revenue last year.
Sports
- Cleveland Cavaliers 112 Boston Celtics 99 (Cleveland leads NBA Eastern Conference final 3-1)
- Boston Red Sox 11 Texas Rangers 6 (Xander Bogaerts 3-hits and 3-RBI) (Chris Sale starts tonight against Texas)
High School Baseball
George Stevens 3 Sumner 1
MDI 12 Bucksport 3
Edward Little 3 Bangor 0
Hermon 7 John Bapst 1
Foxcroft 14 Dexter 0
Softball
Bucksport 2 MDI 1
Sumner 15 George Stevens 3
Hermon 14 John Bapst 0
Foxcroft 10 Dexter 2
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