AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 28 -- Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2024: Attorney General Aaron Frey announced today that he has filed a complaint under the Maine Civil Rights Act in the Androscoggin County Superior Court against Andrea Ouellette, age 65, of Lewiston, Maine. According to the Complaint, Ouellette confronted a 31-year-old Black man while he was outside speaking with his neighbor in November of 2023. Ouellette called the victim a racial epi more PR

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 28 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2024: Governor Janet Mills today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $10 million to the State of Maine to support the installation of high-efficiency heat pump systems in approximately 675 rural mobile and manufactured homes in Maine and expand workforce training for local installers to do the work. This initiative, among the first of its kind in the country, is the r more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 28 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2024: Governor Janet Mills announced today that Kennebec County has been approved for Public Assistance under President Biden's Major Disaster Declaration for the December storm that caused significant flooding, prolonged power outages, and extensive property damage across central and western Maine. Kennebec County had not originally met the threshold for damage to public infrastructure to quali more PR

HALLOWELL, Maine, Feb. 28 -- The Maine Public Utilities Commission issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2024: The Maine Public Utilities Commission (Commission) will host the first in a series of coffee and conversation forums to allow members of the public to talk with the three Commissioners, Chair Philip L. Bartlett, II, Patrick Scully, and Carrie Gilbert. Where: Double Tree Hotel, 363 Maine Mall Road, So. Portland When: Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. "In recent years, we' more PR