The 2021 diesel school bus from the Blue Bird Corporation will be financed through a grant from the Department of Transportation and aid from the Department of Education.
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Dry conditions shut down fire permits, drain wells across central Maine
With a moisture deficit that stretches back months, many of the state’s rivers are also running low.
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Augusta Police Chief says the department could have better planned protest parking
A Tuesday memo addressed the department’s role in 15 cars being towed from a State Street parking lot after the Black Lives Matter protest June 7 near the State House.
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Waterville Planning Board recommends council rezone properties for solar farms
City Planner Ann Beverage reported Wednesday that Planning Board member Tom Nale Jr. resigned from the board Tuesday.
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Mobile home temporarily blocks road traffic in West Gardiner
A truck hauling a mobile home got stuck on a narrow driveway, blocking the length of Hallowell Litchfield Road, police said.
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Monmouth man killed after single-vehicle crash in Litchfield
Kennebec County Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Read said Jeremy Kenney, 45, was pronounced dead at the scene after his vehicle went off the road and hit a tree.
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Skowhegan-area school district holds final hearing on $36.6 million budget
The proposed budget for 2020-21 is $101,000 less than the current spending plan and heads to a referendum vote on July 14.
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Augusta City Council approves $67 million budget, with no tax increase
City councilors hold special meeting Tuesday to revise recently approved budget.
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Unity College reducing tuition for distance education graduate programs
Melik Peter Khoury, the college’s president, said the tuition reduction helps Unity meet its mission to make education more accessible.
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Waterville City Council combines differing Black lives matter resolutions after heated debate
Councilors voted Tuesday to add some of Councilor Flavia Oliveira’s alternate decree to Phil Bofia’s resolution about Black Lives Matter, but the debate proved divisive as another councilor declared, “All lives matter.”