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Tax reins in planes not from Maine telegram.com/article/20071230/NEWS/712300450/1052/RSS01&source=rssPORTLAND, Maine - When Steve Kahn got a $26,000 tax bill on his airplane, he thought Maine Revenue Services had made a mistake. Kahn lives, works and keeps his plane in Massachusetts.
Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport fined $4.5K
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The state is imposing a $4,500 fine on the Maine Media Workshops organization for violations of chemical use and storage rules, infractions that were discovered during an inspection carried out in November 2006.
State cites Rockport-based Down East magazine about low Maine crime rate mainecoastnow.com/articles/2007/12/30/camden_herald/local_news/doc47668b55caa11053088619.txt
The Maine Department of Public safety is quoting an article in the current edition of Down East magazine, which claims that Maine had the lowest crime rate in the country in 2006.
Eastern Maine Hit With More Snow
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Southern parts of Maine saw a lot of wet weather Saturday. But in northern parts of the state they were seeing more of the white stuff.
Today's other top business headlines: Fly plane to Maine to visit? Get taxed Wal-Mart Stores Inc. not discounting lobbying
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Read these stories and more in today's Digital Edition of the Standard-Examiner
Christmas in Kyrgyzstan
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Editor's note: Alyson Sweet, 18, of York, Maine, is spending the 2007-2008 academic year in Kyrgyzstan through the Rotary International Youth Exchange. She will be writing about her experience the last Sunday of every month for Seacoast Sunday.
Theresa Y. Desmarais
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Theresa Yvonne (Motard) Desmarais, 86, of Sanford, died on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, at the Greenwood Center in Sanford surrounded by her loving family.
Warden crashes through ice sunjournal.com/story/245166-3/MaineNews/Warden_crashes_through_ice/
A Maine game warden escaped serious injury after his snowmobile broke through thin ice on a Somerset County pond. The Maine Warden Service says Scott Thrasher got a dunking in waist-deep water in Pleasant Pond in Caratunk about 10 feet from shore around noon on Friday.
'Persons of interest' queried in hit, run
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LIMERICK - Maine Warden Service investigators are questioning persons of interest after a hit-and-run snowmobile-pedestrian accident Friday night left a 42-year-old Limerick man seriously injured.
Baldacci looks forward, back in weekly address sunjournal.com/story/245162-3/MaineNews/Baldacci_looks_forward_back_in_weekly_address/
Gov. John Baldacci saluted Maine's accomplishments in 2007 and looked forward to 2008 in this weekend's year-ending radio address. He also wished Mainers a happy new year.
Maine Kyrgyzstan
30 December, 2007
