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Sanford’s police chief brings the laughs— and the law— on Facebook
Sanford Police Chief Eric Small connects with the community through weekly Facebook updates. The updates share safety tips, humorous anecdotes, and personal details about Small. Small aims to increase transparency and build relationships between...

Work Talks Defense Innovation During New England Trip
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES 05.11.2015 Courtesy Story During a two-day domestic trip to Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work spoke with military, academic and industry officials, troops and students about defense...

Flutterwave relaunches Send App in US with 20 additional licences
Flutterwave, one of Africa’s leading payments technology companies, has relaunched its flagship remittance platform, the Send App, across multiple US states following the acquisition of 20 additional Money Transmitter Licences (MTLs). This brings...

Flutterwave secures 20 more U.S. money transmitter licenses
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, today announced the relaunch of its flagship remittance solution, Send App, across US states following its newly acquired Money Transmitter Licenses (MTLs). This comes after Flutterwave...

Flutterwave boosts remittances reach with 20 new U.S. licenses
Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave, has relaunched its flagship remittance solution, the Send App, across US states following the acquisition of its Money Transmitter Licenses (MTLs). This comes after Flutterwave secured 20...

Nichol Named 2024 USILA Scholar All-American
Via Maine Maritime Academy, 3h ago CASTINE, Maine – Sam Nichol (Concord, N.H.) has been named a 2025 United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) Scholar All-American. Nichol becomes just the fourth Maine Maritime Academy men’s...

Send App By Flutterwave Relaunches In The US With Expanded Money Transfer To Africa
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, today announced the relaunch of its flagship remittance solution, Send App, across US states following its newly acquired Money Transmitter Licenses (MTLs). This comes after Flutterwave...

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital braces for federal cuts to Medicaid
The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital campus on Belmont Avenue. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger This story by Joyce Marcel was first published in The Commons on July 8. BRATTLEBORO — Much of Windham County depends for its health care services on...

How ECC Developed Their Blueprint for Security and AV Tech Innovation
For nearly seven decades, Electronic Contracting Company (ECC) has quietly built a reputation as one of the most trusted technology systems integrators. With headquarters in Lincoln, Neb., and five locations in the Midwest, ECC delivers AV,...

The Broadband Story Abundance Liberals Like Ezra Klein Got Wrong
In late March, the New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein went on the Weekly Show with Jon Stewart podcast to talk about his new book, Abundance, which Klein had co-authored with journalist Derek Thompson, then of The Atlantic. The...

The Pulse: NH leads the country in trade complexity
New Hampshire ranks first among all 50 states in the economic complexity of its international trade, a measure that points to economic sustainability and strong economic growth in the future, according to a research project launched by MIT...

Northeast Firms to Pay $1.37M to Settle Claims of Shoddy Runway Construction
Contractors from Maine, Connecticut and New York will pay $1.37 million to resolve allegations concerning false claims for payment related to the rehabilitation of a Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport runway in Westfield, Massachusetts. As part of...

New methods complement old in revealing diet of larval lobsters
ORONO — Researchers from the University of Maine and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have demonstrated a new approach to understanding the diet of newly hatched American lobsters, opening doors for better understanding the role they play in...

Faith Matters: Church should be political, but not partisan
The Rev. Janet Adair Hansen is interim pastor of the Charlemont Federated Church. CONTRIBUTED Even back when I was ordained to Christian ministry more than 40 years ago, churches would get comments that they “were too political” or sometimes they...

FMCSA’s new motor carrier registration system is designed to prevent fraud and identity theft
From identity theft to outright cargo heists, fraud is a growing concern in the freight industry. In an effort to stem the fraud epidemic, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA) is in the process of updating the Unified...

Cops Use ChatGPT to Edit Drugs Bust Photo, Goes Horribly Wrong
The real photo of the drugs bust, left, and the AI image that cops posted, right. A police department in Maine has been tripped up by modern photo editing after it posted an AI-generated image of a drug bust. Westbrook Maine Police Department used...

Madawaska school cuts additional $200,000 after voters reject budget
The Madawaska School Committee voted on July 2 to present roughly $200,000 worth of cuts to the school budget after voters rejected it in June. (Chris Bouchard | The County) MADAWASKA, Maine — After Madawaska voters shot down the town’s education...

What’s in a State Flag?
Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! What do Pennsylvania, Illinois, Nebraska, Mississippi, Michigan, Utah, Minnesota, Maine, South Carolina, and Massachusetts — states that span U.S. regions, and the political...

How cuts at the National Weather Service will impact Georgians
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The National Weather Service (NWS), a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), took a big financial hit in March. As of today, the NWS has lost around 20% of its staff. But how will...

June 2025 was the planet’s third-warmest on record
June 2025 was Earth’s third-warmest June in analyses of global weather data going back to 1850, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported July 10. NASA and the European Copernicus Climate Change Service also rated...