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Times Record
April 27, 2018
There are also 120 Maine Army National Guard members and 124 Marine Corps reservists assigned to units at Brunswick Landing. In addition to Bath Iron Works, businesses recently locating or expanding at the former base include Oaks and Maple Cafe, Sailboat Interiors (Quahog Bay Bedding), EmbraceÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
April 26, 2018
Attorney and Maine Army National Guard member Adam Cote, a Democrat, has put a sizeable amount of cash into his gubernatorial campaign but, of his Democratic competitors, has given the second lowest amount to other Democratic candidates and causes over the years. Donna Dion, a formerÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
April 20, 2018
Douglas Farnham, Adjutant General for the Maine National Guard. Approximately 150 soldiers from Maine, Washington D.C. and Idaho will provide emergency enroute patient care, and transport medical personnel and supplies in Afghanistan and Southwest Asia. They are expected to be deployed for oneÃâà...
WABI
April 20, 2018
And as a collaboration between the three entities, we want to make sure that people know that we care about the community and we want to get these drugs out of the community before it becomes a problem," said Lt. Col. Darryl Lyon, Maine Army National Guard. You can take part in the national event onÃâà...
WGME
April 19, 2018
In a special ceremony at Bangor High School Thursday filled with pomp and circumstance, friends... family, and even Governor Paul LePage honored members of Company G Third Battalion 126th Aviation Regiment Medevac. The soldiers, including pilots, medics, communications and flight operations personnel areÃâà...
92moose.fm
April 18, 2018
The Maine National Guard is partnering with the Augusta Police and Kennebec County Sheriff's Office for a prescription Drug Take Back event at the Augusta ... Karen Heavey, Alcohol and Drug Control Officer for the Maine National Guard and Augusta Police Officer, Brad Chase, joined us on the Moose Morning Show.
fiddleheadfocus.com
April 18, 2018
Attorney and Maine Army National Guard member Adam Cote has built an insider's budget while running an outsider campaign that calls for new party leadership. And while he's raised more early cash than a field of candidates with deeper histories in Democratic donor networks, he's given the secondÃâà...
Seacoastonline.com
April 6, 2018
KITTERY POINT, Maine - The scope of the remaining work in restoring the Wood Island Life Saving Station is coming into focus with the non-profit working on the project recently sending 2018′s contracts for materials out to bid. Wood Island Life Saving Station Association (WILSSA) president Sam ReidÃâà...
Press Herald
April 3, 2018
Cote, who served on three combat tours with the Maine Army National Guard, said Maine can follow the lead of Vermont in banning bump stocks that can turn semi-automatic weapons into guns that can fire automatically. He also said there is no reason to allow magazines that hold 30 bullets at a time.
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
March 21, 2018
From collective efforts of feeding and outfitting Allied troops before the U.S. entry into the war, to later supporting Liberty Bonds on the home front, Maine was an active participant in World War I. A particular focus of the talk will be on the experiences of the Maine National Guard, the Old 2nd Maine, as theÃâà...
Stripes Okinawa
March 6, 2018
PORTLAND, Maine -- Sgt. Marina Gray, a petroleum supply specialist with the Maine Army National Guard, earned the title of Miss Maine USA on November 26, 2017. Gray will go on to compete at the national level Miss USA pageant this summer for a chance to represent the United States in the MissÃâà...
Maine Public
February 20, 2018
Farnham noted that it was 100 years ago this month that some 3,500 Maine Army National Guard members deployed to France in World War I - the first time National Guard soldiers served alongside regular Army units. “When these soldiers returned home to Maine, they became the community leaders ofÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
February 20, 2018
War experience is now common among most current members of the Maine National Guard, the head of the force told Maine lawmakers Tuesday. ... Farnham noted that it was 100 years ago this month that some 3,500 Maine Army National Guard members deployed to France in World War I — the first timeÃâà...
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
January 3, 2018
The American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary teamed up with the Maine National Guard and Yellow Ribbon personnel to make pillowcases for deployed service member's children for Christmas. The pillowcases have photos of the children's parents displayed. Auxiliary member Lillian Frace andÃâà...
Press Herald
January 3, 2018
“Having earned his well-deserved second star as major general, he is Maine's highest-ranking reserve component officer, leading 3,000 of Maine's National Guard Airmen and Soldiers.” Farnham also serves as Maine's commissioner of the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management.
U.S. News & World Report
January 3, 2018
Republican Gov. Paul LePage says Maine Adjutant General Douglas Farnham has been promoted from the rank of brigadier general to major general. LePage presided over Farnham's promotion ceremony on Wednesday. Farnham leads 3,000 airmen and soldiers. He was promoted to brigadier generalÃâà...
WMTW Portland
September 22, 2017
Our Maine National Guard service members are prepared to provide critical communications support to help restore normalcy to the region," Brig. ... operations before, including a deployment to Vermont to assist Maine Army National Guard Engineers with Hurricane Irene response efforts in August of 2011.
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
The base started as Dow Field in 1940 and had 4,500 airmen before it closed in 1968. Historian Tom McCord tells WABI-TV that the city was worried about an economic "disaster." The base became what's now the Bangor International Airport. The Maine National Guard has refueling tankers located on theÃâà...
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
December 31, 1999
AUGUSTA — Maj. Gen. Douglas A. Farnham, Adjutant General of the Maine National Guard, presided over a change of responsibility ceremony for the state command chief warrant officer position on March 16 at Camp Chamberlain, according to a news release from the Maine Army National Guard.
