Roads
(Undated) – Several schools in the Greater Bangor area have called off classes for the day as road crews work to clean up messy highways. Along the coast, though, its business as usual as the temperature rose high enough overnight for the precipitation to be all rain. Inland, the temperatures hovered around freezing overnight, creating a layer of wet, heavy snow. Plow trucks have dropped a constant load of salt on major highways to try to keep them open. Emera Maine reports more than 26-hundred outages this morning, nearly all of them in the Greater Bangor area.
Bucksport Meth Bust
(Bucksport) – Three Bucksport men face charges after a meth lab bust in their home town. The Ellsworth American reports Bucksport police searched a home on Bucks Mills Road and called in help from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency. Charged with operating a meth lab are 30-year old Shane Jacobs, 34-year old Christopher Butler and 45-year old Rob Gray. It’s the first ever meth lab bust in Bucksport and the 56th in Maine this year, down sharply from the previous year.
Manslaughter Sentence
(Belfast) – A Waldo County woman will find out today how long she’ll spend in prison for the death of her infant son. A judge will sentence Miranda Hopkins of Thorndike tomorrow. Hopkins says she has no idea how her 7-month old son died – she’d ingested alcohol and marijuana and was passed out the night the baby died. She told police her two autistic sons may have killed their brother.
Ugly Sweaters
(Ellsworth) Ellsworth is gearing up for National Ugly Sweater Day this Friday. If you don’t have a ridiculous Christmas sweater yet, you have just a few days left to get one. The Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce is behind the city-wide “holiday gag” and Executive Director Gretchen Wilson says businesses large and small plan to participate. Those who participate are asked to take a group photo and send your picture along with the number of people participating to the Ellsworth Chamber.
Sports
- The Celtics host the Denver Nuggets tonight.
- The Bruins play the Red Wings in Detroit
- Aaron Rogers says he’s medically cleared to return to playing quarterback for Green Bay
- The High School basketball schedule was postponed yesterday with a lot of the games to be made up tonight.
