The Wells-Ogunquit School Committee voted to ditch Warriors as the high school's mascot, leaving only one town in Maine using American Indian imagery for its school sports teams.
School officials in Skowhegan, where the high school teams are known as the Indians, refused to discuss the matter with a reporter from the Portland Press Herald who inquired after Wells-Ogunquit ditched Warriors.
Twin Rivers Paper Company doesn't have to pay for medical marijuana for a former employee who was injured on the job because the federal Controlled Substances Act trumps the state's Medical Use of Marijuana Act, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled.
Gaetan H. Bourgeon sustained a back injury in 1989 while working for Fraser Papers in Madawaska, Maine that resulted in a finding of total disability. Opioid painkillers caused bad side effects, so in January 2012 he obtained certification from the state to use marijuana to deal with his chronic pain.
