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In this May 25, 2018, photo, Anthony Rios, left, works with gardener Carol Emerson at Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, Maine. Bob Smith, owner of the resort hired a half-dozen Puerto Ricans last summer for housekeeping, landscaping and kitchen work, providing relief to his overworked staff. This summer he is doubling the number, and he would like to hire even more. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Seasonal Workers Hard to Find

by David Sharp Associated Press, and Claudia Torrens Associated PressMay 27, 2018

Trump Again Looks to Cut Heating Aid

by David Sharp Associated PressFebruary 18, 2018

In this Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, photo a worker marks a coat that was returned to the LL Bean retail store in Freeport, Maine. L.L. Bean's generous return policy is going to be a little less forgiving: The company, which has touted its 100 percent satisfaction guarantee for more than a century, is imposing a one-year limit on most returns to reduce growing abuse and fraud. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Citing Fraud, L.L. Bean Imposes Limits On Its Return Policy

by David Sharp Associated PressFebruary 9, 2018

Fairpoint Name to Change, Rebranding Begins

by David Sharp Associated PressJanuary 21, 2018

Courtney Austin of the 21st Century Kids of Franklin after school program hands a candy cane to Abigail Toothaker, 5, during the Chester Greenwood Parade in Farmington, Maine, on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. Greenwood, a Farmington resident, was the inventor of earmuffs in the early 20th century. (Daryn Slover/The Lewiston Sun-Journal via AP)

Maine Celebrates Man Who Invented Earmuffs

by David Sharp Associated PressDecember 3, 2017

FILE - In this April 20, 2010 file photo, Walter Skold of Freeport, Maine, reads a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem while posing in Eastern Cemetery in Portland, Maine. Skold, the founder of the Dead Poets Society of America who has visited the graves of more than 600 bards, has commissioned John Updike's son to carve his own tombstone in 2017 in Newburyport, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Dead Poets Founder Mulls Own Mortality

by David Sharp Associated PressDecember 3, 2017

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, file photo, a father walks his child to a school bus at a temporary pick up location, in Freeport, Maine, where storm-toppled trees still made several roads impassable following Monday's storm. High winds brought town trees and limbs and spread debris that may block trails and make roads impassable after the recent storm. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Assessing Storm’s Forest Damage

by David Sharp Associated PressNovember 6, 2017

In this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017 photo, Capt. David Hunt poses in front of the Quarters "A", the shipyard commander's residence, at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Most Navy commanders don't have to run everything by a historic preservation committee but that's just one of the challenges Capt. Hunt faces he continues the work of updating the nation's oldest continuously operated public shipyard. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

U.S. Shipyards In Need of Major Repairs

by David Sharp Associated PressOctober 15, 2017

Maine Court Rules on Distracted Driving Case

by David Sharp Associated PressAugust 26, 2017

More Delays Seen For Vt. Fighters Flying Over Maine

by David Sharp Associated PressAugust 20, 2017