Joshua Chard teaches second and third grade at the East End Community School in Portland.
Local & State
Maine news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Maine watchdog seeks to have Electricity Maine’s license revoked, says it overcharges
Some of the electricity supplier’s customers pay 40 cents per kilowatt hour, compared with the state’s standard offer of 17.6 cents, according to the state’s consumer advocate.
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UMaine developing interactive tool to track PFAS nationwide
A university team is creating a tracker that strives to connect state and federal testing data back to the likely source of contamination, note the potential impacts on food and water supplies and map out how PFAS travels through the environment.
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Augusta City Hall closed down due to potential gas leak Tuesday
The area was later cleared by the fire department and the City Hall will open at regular hours on Wednesday.
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‘I just feel the need for preservation’: Farmington Historical Society volunteers clean over 200 headstones
Members of the Farmington Historical Society and volunteers worked one Saturday a month.
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Bowdoinham town hall, historic resources of Swan Island and a bowling alley among Maine Preservation’s ‘most endangered’ places
See the seven landmarks that landed on the Yarmouth nonprofit’s list this year.
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Gov. Mills’ post of encampment photos puzzles allies and critics alike
The governor removed a Facebook post that included photos of a Portland homeless encampment juxtaposed with more idyllic scenes of mountains, lakes, the coast and a county fair and words that asked “where in Maine are these spots?”
Posted inLocal & State, Local Government, Morning Sentinel
Oakland council votes to release Ella Bowman from employment agreement, appoint interim manager
At an emergency meeting of the Oakland Town Council on Tuesday, the town’s finance and human resource director, Kelly Pinney-Michaud, was named interim town manager.
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Winslow investigation finds councilors didn’t violate open meeting law, but gatherings risk a ‘fine line’
The investigation was launched in August after a sitting councilor claimed the council’s chairman was hosting regular meetings outside the public eye.
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Hiker rescued after rainy night in western Maine
The hiker had fallen in the rain and injured his back when he slid into a tree. He refused treatment and went to a New Hampshire hotel.