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Wilson Stream Properties has an ‘Entrepreneur Contest’. According to the Sun Journal they want to fill an empty location on Main St., with more than $15,000 in incentives and business advice to boot. It starts with an interested business filling out an application.

Waterville city councilors voted to basically re-open budget talks and consider cutting the budget. According to centralmaine.com, $38 million municipal and school budget are being reopened.

From the Associated Press:

Republican Gov. Paul LePage's administration has ordered a hiring freeze throughout the executive branch. Mary Anne Turowski of the Maine State Employees Association shared a July 8 memorandum saying vacancies would only be filled if approved by LePage himself.

Summit Natural Gas of Maine is asking the PUC to dissolve Natural Gas Conversion Company, which helps Mainers convert home heating systems to burn natural gas at a time of high demand. Summit said the conversion company is "no longer consistent" with its Colorado-based parent company's "business objectives."

Republican Donald Trump is heading to Portland Thursday, a liberal city in a state where the Republican presidential candidate has a chance to score an electoral vote. Maine is traditionally considered a blue state but he has a chance to win at least one electoral vote because of the state's split electoral vote system. The event is a "town hall" meeting beginning at 10 a.m. at Merrill Auditorium.

Gas prices are still dropping in northern New England. GasBuddy shows the average price per gallon in Maine has fallen 3.3 cents to $2.17. The national average of $2.13 has fallen 2 cents during the last week and stands 52.7 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he'll do whatever it takes to defeat Donald Trump. That includes taking at least 10 voters to the polls himself. Campaigning with Hillary Clinton in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett savaged Trump's business record, questioned his bankruptcies and asked why Trump won't release his tax returns.

Donald Trump has opened August by moving from "crooked Hillary" to "the devil." Speaking in Pennsylvania, Trump derided Bernie Sanders' capitulation in the Democratic primary race and Sanders' decision to support Hillary Clinton. Trump said of Sanders: "He made a deal with the devil. She's the devil," referring to Clinton.

President Barack Obama says the U.S. has made serious strides in improving services for military veterans. But in a speech to the Disabled American Veterans convention in Atlanta, the president said work remains to overcome shortcomings in the delivery of those services. Obama called the nation's commitment to its veterans a "sacred covenant."

Attorneys for the man charged with killing nine people at a Charleston, South Carolina, church last year are challenging federal prosecutors' intention to seek the death penalty against him. Lawyers for Dylann Roof argue in a motion filed Monday that the death penalty and federal death penalty law are unconstitutional.

More than 100 million acres of America's most rugged landscapes are off-limits to mountain bikers. But Utah's two senators have introduced legislation that would allow bikers to join hikers and horse riders in those scenic, undisturbed areas. The proposal is controversial within the biking community and opposed by conservationists.

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