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Maine getting $34 million to improve hydropower infrastructure
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(WABI) – Maine will be getting funding to improve their hydropower infrastructure.
The Maine delegation has announced that the state will be receiving nearly $34 million.
The funding will go towards 21 projects in order to enhance existing hydropower and pumped storage facilities.
The goal is to integrate variable resources including wind and solar, improving dam safety, and improvements to environmental conditions.
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Michael Dellumo's pair of TDs and interceptions help Maine South beat Warren
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Maine South’s first five quarters of football this season did not go according to plan. The Hawks lost by 27 points to Lincoln-Way East last week. The lopsided defeat was the talk of Park Ridge this week.
“Definitely,” Hawks senior Michael Dellumo said. “Right away on Saturday after the game I was coaching some [youth football] and every parent was coming up and talking to me about Lincoln-Way East. It was bad.”
The rough run continued in the first quarter on Friday against Warren. Dellumo fumbled on the Blue Devils’ 5 when he looked poised to score.
“After last week we talked about keeping our heads up on the sideline no matter what happens,” Dellumo said. “So I guess we were ready for that because that’s exactly what we did.”
Dellumo went from goat to hero throughout No. 9 Maine South’s 35-18 win over visiting No. 5 Warren. He scored two TDs on offense and grabbed two interceptions on defense.
“It was super exciting,” Dellumo said. “I’m just trying to find a way to help the team win any way I can.”
Dellumo had 11 carries for 89 yards. The TD runs were for 37 and 38 yards.
Junior safety Santino Bernabei made two key plays in the second quarter that helped turn the season around for the Hawks (2-0).
He broke up a pass play at the Maine South 5 on a third down. Then on the next play, he stopped Warren running back Aaron Stewart on the Maine South 6 to force a turnover on downs.
“I had been watching film and knew something was up on that fourth down,” Bernabei said. “So I broke pretty good and I just needed to hit him so he wouldn’t get the first down or score the touchdown.”
Stewart scored five TDs and ran for 361 yards last week, likely the top performance in the state. He had 32 carries for 185 yards and two TDs against Maine South. But the Hawks generally contained him. Stewart had a 37-yard run late in the fourth quarter but only one carry topped 13 yards.
“The safeties and linebackers were flying around and trying to gang tackle him and get him down as quick as possible,” Bernabei said.
Maine South quarterback Constantine Coines, who put up massive numbers last season, struggled in the opener against Lincoln-Way East.
The Hawks’ backup quarterback, sophomore Jameson Purcell, has 18 D1 scholarship offers. So Coines may have been facing more pressure than any player on the field.
“I tried to be more calm this week,” Coines said. “I was animated in the Lincoln-Way East game and I’m not very proud of that but it happens. Everybody has their moments at times. This week I relaxed more and dialed it back and tried to be more of a leader, not just yelling at kids.”
Coines delivered on the air and the ground. He was 13 for 19 passing for 218 yards with one TD. He had six carries for 128 yards with electrifying TD runs of 54 and 68 yards.
“We made a decision not to push any panic buttons,” Maine South coach Dave Inserra said. “Jameson’s a really good quarterback and he’s going to get his opportunities and his chances. But we know what Constantine did for us last year.”
Warren (1-1) scored the first TD of the game on a 17-yard run by Stewart early in the first quarter. The Hawks scored the next 28 points.
Blue Devils quarterback Jack Wolf was 16 for 29 passing for 182 yards with two interceptions. Senior Aydan Edwards had nine receptions for 109 yards.
Warren, which knocked off Hersey last week, will be favored in its final seven regular season games and will be a major factor in the Class 8A state playoffs.
Maine South has two more major tests in the coming weeks. The Hawks are at Hersey next week and host Barrington in Week 4.
“The season wasn’t over just because we lost Week 1,” Bernabei said. “We’re definitely looking forward to seeing Lincoln-Way East in the playoffs.”
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Rembrandt Discovered in Maine Attic Sells for $1.4M
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You never know what you’ll find hidden in a Maine attic: lobster traps, weathered Stephen King novels, perhaps a long-lost Rembrandt. The latter is what turned up in an estate in Camden, and it’s now in the hands of a European collector, who scooped it up at auction late last month for $1.4 million, reports the AP. Per a release from Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, company owner Kaja Veilleux was making a “typical house call” at the farmhouse when, “among a collection of heirlooms and antiques, tucked away in the attic,” Veilleux spotted the 17th-century Portrait of a Girl, “a stunning portrait of a teenage girl, her serene expression framed by a ruffled white collar and cap.”
Veilleux tells the New York Times that he knew “right away” he was looking at a Rembrandt, painted on an oak panel and mounted in a handcarved gold frame. A label on the back of the unsigned painting confirmed it was a Rembrandt and also noted it had been on display in 1970 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, though a museum rep tells the Times that the exhibition of the piece was so long ago that there are no records of it. Apparently, other than its brief stint there, the artwork had remained in the hands of a family since the 1920s, though those owners haven’t been identified.
The painting’s new owner is also anonymous, outbidding eight others and getting what appears to be a bargain in the deal, as the painting they bought for $1.4 million on Aug. 24 hasn’t even been authenticated yet. “The value of this painting is probably in the area of $15 million,” authentication expert Mark Winter tells the Times. Still, the sale is the auction house’s biggest fetch ever. “Out of all the phone bids I’ve handled, I never imagined I’d help close a deal for over a million dollars,” says Zebulon Casperson, who repped the winning bidder, per the release. “It feels like a shared victory.” No one knows how or why the painting ended up stashed in the estate’s attic. (More Rembrandt stories.)
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Maine law thwarts impact of school choice decision, lawsuit says
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Christian school at the center of a Supreme Court decision that required Maine to include religious schools in a state tuition program is appealing a ruling upholding a requirement that all participating facilities abide by a state antidiscrimination law.
An attorney for Crosspoint Church in Bangor accused Maine lawmakers of applying the antidiscrimination law to create a barrier for religious schools after the hard-fought Supreme Court victory.
“The Maine Legislature largely deprived the client of the fruits of their victory by amending the law,” said David Hacker from First Liberty Institute, which filed the appeal this week to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. “It’s engineered to target a specific religious group. That’s unconstitutional.”
The lawsuit is one of two in Maine that focus on the collision between the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling and the state law requiring that schools participating in the tuition program abide by the Maine Human Rights Act, which includes protections for LGBTQ students and faculty.
Another lawsuit raising the same issues was brought on behalf of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland; a Roman Catholic-affiliated school, St. Dominic’s Academy in Auburn, Maine; and parents who want to use state tuition funds to send their children to St. Dominic’s. That case is also being appealed to the 1st Circuit.
Both cases involved the same federal judge in Maine, who acknowledged that his opinions served as a prelude to a “more authoritative ruling” by the appeals court.
The lawsuits were filed after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states cannot discriminate between secular and religious schools when providing tuition assistance to students in rural communities that don’t have a public high school. Before that ruling — in a case brought on behalf of three families seeking tuition for students to attend a Crosspoint-affiliated school — religious schools were excluded from the program.
The high court’s decision was hailed as a victory for school choice proponents but the impact in Maine has been small. Since the ruling, only one religious school, Cheverus High School, a Jesuit college preparatory school in Portland, has participated in the state’s tuition reimbursement plan, a state spokesperson said.
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