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March 14  celebrates Pi,  the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, or 3.14159265359......

Nice weather this week and rain Friday is  good weather for melting snow, but officials don't see this combination causing major flooding in the Kennebec River according to centralmaine.com. Officials will keep an eye on things as conditions could chance and change the situation.  You can sign up for warnings:  water.usgs.gov/waternow/ and maps.waterdata.usgs.gov/mapper/wateralert/.

Facebook and Instagram suffered outages yesterday. Using their Twitter account, Facebook said the outage was not due to a type of attack that hackers use to interrupt service to a site. according to US News.

Hundreds of people attended a public hearing yesterday on two bills dealing with the vaccinations according to WABI.

The US had ordered all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 be grounded according to WABI.

Trista Reynolds, the mother of Ayla Reynolds, is asking the courts for more time to find Ayla's father, so the wrongful death lawsuit against him can move forward according to centralmaine.com.

Sen. Susan Collins is a co sponsor of a nondiscrimination bill and the only Senate Republican to back the LGBT rights movement's top legislative priority according to US News.

As Maine's Amish community has grown so have safety concerns for horse-drawn buggies, there is now a bill being considered that would make it so buggies would need to display reflectors or lights at night according to US News.

 

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