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LAMOINE — A state conservation specialist will be at Lamoine Town Hall Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. to talk about reducing and eliminating shoreline erosion.
The Maine Tourism Association has announced that Risteen H. Masters Bahr, marketing manager for Bangor International Airport, recently received the Governor’s Tourism Award for Commitment to Community.
Calendar year 2011 proved to be a boon to domestic auto sales as overall American auto sales climbed 10 percent. Ford led individual brand sales — with 16.1 percent of the market — while General Motors returned as the number one selling auto company for the year, pushing Toyota all the way back into third place.
ELLSWORTH — Card Brook has a case of urban stream syndrome.
BAR HARBOR — A Jackson Laboratory research team led by Susan Ackerman, Ph.D., a professor and Howard Hughes medical investigator, has discovered a defect in the RNA splicing process in neurons that may contribute to neurological disease.
BAR HARBOR — The Jackson Laboratory has received grants totaling $55,000 from The Betterment Fund, the Sam L. Cohen Foundation and the Dorr Foundation to support the Maine State Science Fair.
BAR HARBOR — A $1.4 million budget for the Mount Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) for next fiscal year, which will fund the superintendent’s office and certain systemwide student services, was approved at the system’s annual meeting Jan. 18.
BUCKSPORT — Regional School Unit 25 (RSU 25) is moving ahead on the conversion to natural gas this year and will develop a request for proposals for the next phase of the project.
ELLSWORTH — Deputies believe alcohol is a factor in a Jan. 15 accident in Verona Island that sent two people to a Bangor hospital.
