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Good Shepherd Food Bank President Heather Paquette says that's an increase of 41,000 residents since 2022.
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Last year, the Legislature's watchdog agency found "lingering concerns" about a hostile work environment and other problems within the small law enforcement agency that investigates fires and carries out inspections.
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The Maine Principal's Association (MPA) governs high school athletics across the state, and on Wednesday the MPA's membership adopted a policy that non-binary students may join the team in which they feel most comfortable.
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The new plan would add a total of 282 new surface parking spaces and a battery storage system on site, though project has received some pushback over environmental and climate concerns.
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In a letter released on Tuesday, USM President Jacqueline Edmondson said the school is discontinuing its Russell Scholars program, which offers smaller classes and academic mentoring to some first-year and transfer students.
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Senior policy analyst Riley Sullivan said nearly 15% of nursing homes in the region have closed, and Maine had the highest percentage, at 19%.
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McCloskey's story has both deep roots and burgeoning relevance. He died this month at 96 and had long been out of the limelight, but the issues he had been willing to champion are as salient as ever.
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Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
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An art installation called The Portal was shut down this week in New York and Dublin because of rude gestures and other bad public behavior, as NPR's Scott Simon explains.
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Since the pandemic, chronic absenteeism in the nation's K-12 schools has skyrocketed. These teens are working to get their attendance back on track.
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At the height of the racial reckoning, a school district in Virginia voted to rename two schools that had been previously named for Confederate generals. This month, that decision was reversed.
Monday—How the statewide housing crisis is affecting rural communities, and what small towns are doing to find solutions ( part of "Cost of Living: Maine's Housing Shortage series)
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