The policy change is aimed at filling vacancies at a time when departments nationwide are struggling to recruit qualified candidates.
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Posted inMaine colleges, Sports
Frozen Four: Breaking down the final four of the NCAA Division III hockey tournament
Lake Placid to play host to powerhouses and first-timers.
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Posted inMaine, Politics
LePage wants to more than double pay of Maine’s next governor
The current gubernatorial salary is the lowest in the nation, but lawmakers have shot down previous attempts to change that.
Posted inLife & Culture, Nation & World
Singer Selena Gomez responds to ‘thick’ remark with her own post
The singer says the beauty myth is an obession and she’s not trying to ‘prove anything to anyone.’
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine
Kennebunk theater group shutting down after loss of operations director
The director of operations of MaineStage Shakespeare left his job at Kennebunk High School because of a social media controversy.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Politics, Source
LePage’s bill to limit local control of pesticide use appears headed for defeat
It’s the governor’s second attempt at pushing the pesticide policy.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Honduran man who claimed racial profiling is convicted of illegal entry
Mario Ernesto Garcia-Zavala, 22, was arrested in Portland on Sept. 9, 2017, after a trooper stopped the van in which he was a passenger.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Portsmouth-Kittery bridge now projected to open March 30
The long-delayed Sarah Mildred Long bridge project has been a given a little extra time because of bad weather.
Posted inBusiness, Maine Cannabis Report
California’s ‘outlaw’ marijuana culture faces a harsh reckoning: legal weed
The state’s wild northwest coast, where tens of thousands of people have been breaking the law for years, is being upended by pot’s cultural transformation.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine Cannabis Report
How to try edible cannabis without feeling like you’re going to die
Inexperienced users who want to dabble, especially with edibles, owe it to themselves to get educated.