Abbott announced last week it laid off 400 people in the Westbrook and Scarborough testing facilities, and more than half of them are now seeking help with housing issues, including eviction.
2021
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Portland Planning Board approves senior, family housing project in West End
The 95 apartments in two buildings behind the old Mercy Hospital will go to those making less than the city’s median income.
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Posted inPortland Forecaster
Senior, family housing project approved in Portland
The 95 apartments in two buildings behind the old Mercy Hospital will go to those making less than the city’s median income.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Veteran Midcoast journalist, writer turns the page on a long career
Bob Kalish,
said he looks forward to having nothing to write for the first time in decades.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
Mother accused of hiding her daughter, who is charged with murdering her own child in Stockton Springs
Sherry A. Johnson is the mother of Jessica Trefethen, charged last month in the murder of her 3-year-old son, Maddox Williams.
Posted inAmerican Journal
CMP switchyard expansion OK’d in Buxton
The project still need approval from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the Army Corps of Engineers before it can proceed
Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
Selectmen in Arundel ponder fate of old municipal building
They’re getting demolition costs and checking for environmental issues before making a recommendation. Voters will decide.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Too many in America willing to trash what those in Cuba so desperately seek
In their disregard for a democratic process that says a former chief executive is no longer president, the right displays an affinity for authoritarian rule.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Commentary: Bans on critical race theory could have a chilling effect on how educators teach about racism
Perhaps no topic has dominated education news in 2021 like the debate over whether or not critical race theory should be taught – or whether it is even being taught – in America’s schools. Critical race theory is an academic framework that holds that racism is embedded in American society and its institutions. The debate […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Replica ship’s Maine visit could have been chance to educate public
Re: “Maine bicentennial event featuring replica of Columbus’ ship canceled following pushback” (July 10): The “Hide the History Gang” is at it again. This time, our American Indian brothers have been infected with the virus. Instead of using the chance to teach what a hateful and really ugly man Christopher Columbus really was, they demanded […]
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