AUGUSTA (AP) — Federal regulators have approved Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s proposal to require certain Medicaid recipients to work or volunteer. LePage released Friday a letter from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that approves his proposal to require able-bodied adults to be working, training for a new career or volunteering. The Trump […]
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Ecology School plans to break ground in spring
SACO — The Ecology School plans to move forward with a design for its new campus that will make it among the greenest projects in the state. The Ecology School was founded in 1998 and provides residential and day ecological education programs. For many years the school operated on space along the coast it leased […]
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New superintendent, assistant take the reins for Sanford Schools
SANFORD — The Sanford School Committee has named Matthew Nelson as the new superintendent of schools effective Jan. 1. Nelson will replace Superintendent David Theoharides as he retires from the position he has held since 2011. The School Committee also named Steven Bussiere as assistant superintendent. Nelson has been Sanford’s assistant superintendent since December 2015. […]
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Jim LaBelle: Don’t Bet Against Us
During this time of year especially, you come across a lot of predictions about the future, some positive and some negative. In Maine, some economists and forecasters are predicting that our economy won’t grow much at all over the next ten years due largely to workforce constraints. There are many concerns cited. Our growing companies are […]
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Paul Kengor: Not a Charlie Brown Christmas
“Look, Charlie Brown, we all know Christmas is a big commercial racket.” — Linus Every year my family eagerly awaits the annual broadcast of the classic 1965 Peanuts special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” This timeless masterpiece by Charles Schulz remains so popular that the networks salivate over the rights to it, despite the strong, explicitly Christian […]
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Years of county service add up
ALFRED — If all the years those recognized on Wednesday for their service to York County government were added together, the total would be 290 years. During the county employee recognition ceremonies on Wednesday, there were milestones marked for 18 county employees, ranging from those who work in the York County Registry of Deeds, the […]
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Some players skip bowls with bonuses at stake for coaches
Dana Holgorsen can earn a $25,000 bonus if West Virginia beats Syracuse next week in the Camping World Bowl, a game the Mountaineers will play without star quarterback Will Grier and left tackle Yodny Cajuste. Dave Doeren’s contract with North Carolina State calls for him to receive a $50,000 bonus if the Wolfpack beat Texas […]
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Federal court rejects Rep. Poliquin request to stop election certification
A panel of federal judges on Friday rejected Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s request for an emergency injunction to block Maine from certifying Jared Golden as the winner of Maine’s 2nd Congressional District race. In a one-sentence order, three judges on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled that the request doesn’t show Poliquin “to have a […]
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