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Maine apple crop fares better than national averages
Maine and other New England states are harvesting more apples than their Midwestern counterparts, but even they are harvesting fewer apples than in recent years.
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Maine gas prices surge just in time for Labor Day
The cost of a gallon of gasoline in Maine is closing in on what you have to shell out for a pound of lobster: right around $4.
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Mosquitoes focus of biologist’s work
Sherrie Juris is on the front line of a small army of people the state of Maine has assigned to gather information on specific diseases where they often appear first: in mosquitoes.
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Lebannon school officials order spraying after West Nile found
While state officials await test results from two suspected cases of mosquito-borne viruses in humans, a school district in York County has sprayed pesticides at elementary school properties to protect students.
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Lebanon spraying against West Nile
As a precaution, officials decide to spray pesticides at the edges of two elementary school properties in RSU 60.
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West Nile virus found in Gorham
The most recent case shows the presence of the virus in both York and Cumberland counties.
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College of the Atlantic conducts whale necropsy
A sperm whale carcass, retrieved last week from Frenchman Bay near Bar Harbor, was dismembered as part of a necropsy of the gigantic marine mammal conducted Monday by researchers near Bar Harbor.
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Maine tests two people for West Nile virus
As results are awaited, officials urge Mainers to take precautions against mosquito bites.
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Maine officials await blood tests for West Nile
So far, no human cases of the virus have been diagnosed in the state, although a mosquito surveillance pool in York County tested positive for the virus last week.