Local & State
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Colby College hires director for artificial intelligence institute
Amanda Stent, a nationally known expert on artificial intelligence and human language, will serve as the new director of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Upcoming B&M closure sparks nostalgia, hope for future development
News that Portland's longtime baked beans factory will close this year and be replaced with a technology and science campus elicits a wistful but hopeful response.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Person taken into custody after shot fired in Waterville
No one was injured Tuesday afternoon when a gun was fired near Kennedy Memorial Drive and Northern Light Inland Hospital, police say.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Hilton Bridge in Skowhegan closed due to structural, liability concerns
Some residents of Red Bridge Road support closing the bridge, while others urge officials to reopen it to tractors and ATVs.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Portland students return to classrooms for full-time, in-person learning
Tuesday marked the first day of school in Portland Public Schools and many other districts across the state, and parents and students were excited to return to in-person learning.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Maine volunteers joining relief effort in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana
Red Cross of Northern New England has deployed 15 volunteers to Louisiana following Hurricane Ida and could send more in the coming weeks and months.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Portland councilors consider next move in clean elections case, but too late for fall vote
Advocates want the City Council to reverse course and put the 2019 citizen initiative on the November ballot, but the clerk says ballots are already being printed.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Gov. Mills to increase Medicaid payments for residential treatment of substance use disorder
Tuesday's announcement came on International Overdose Awareness Day. The state lost a record 502 people to drug overdoses last year, and the numbers so far this year suggest that will be eclipsed.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Federal regulators impose seasonal ban on traditional lobstering in part of Gulf of Maine
Lobstermen worry that the restrictions designed to protect the endangered right whale in roughly 950 square miles of federal waters along midcoast Maine will endanger their industry.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2021
Virus transmission increases as Maine reports 475 new cases over 3 days
Ten of Maine's 16 counties reported high transmission rates over the last 7 days, with some of the highest figures in counties with low vaccination rates.
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