All individuals will need to call up to a county office and request to be buzzed in at the main entrance at 140 Main St.
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Carrabassett Valley to vote on budget and building a nine-hole golf course
The election of officers at the annual town meeting will be held 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Town Office, and the annual town meeting to take up 34 warrant articles will reconvene at 6:30 p.m. at the Sugarloaf Outdoor Center.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime, News
Man arrested in Gardiner on sex trafficking charges faces deportation
Tian Tao, 54, is allegedly involved in massage businesses in Rockland, Randolph and Fairfield.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel, News, Schools and Education
Skowhegan-area school board to consider compliance with Trump order
After a board member tried to force a vote Thursday about whether the board would explicitly follow the Trump administration’s orders, the board chair said the matter would have to be taken up at the next meeting.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News, Schools and Education
38% of LGBTQ+ youth in Maine have considered suicide, national report says
A new report on the well-being of LGBTQ+ people ages 13 to 24 shows high rates of suicidal ideation, depression and anxiety, and a negative effect from politics.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Maine to drop charges, release people from jail over public defense failures
Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy gives Maine’s public defense agency 1 month before criminal defendants who cannot afford their own attorneys are released from jail if they have waited more than 2 weeks for a lawyer.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Maine’s ‘energy economy’ grows as Trump cuts loom over zero-carbon power
The state has benefited from about $800 million made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Waterville restaurant is the site of an anniversary to remember
Jared and Mary O’Roak had their first formal date 25 years ago Tuesday at Silver Street Tavern in downtown Waterville, and he surprised her with an anniversary lunch to remember.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Union leaders in Maine condemn cancellation of TSA officers contract
‘Everything we’ve worked for is in the wind,’ said a union representative for 140 federal airport security officers in Maine.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Deadly police shooting of Belfast man who threatened arson ruled self-defense
Daniel Ryan was shot and killed by Waldo County Sgt. Nicholas Oettinger last year after police said he swung a burning can of gas at them.