Long Creek Youth Development Center Superintendent Lynne Allen resigned for undisclosed personal reasons, according to the Maine Department of Corrections.
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Augusta moving ahead with plan to raise Front Street parking lot to cut down on the number of times it floods
Some $4 million in federal spending to fund the Front Street resiliency project, aiming to protect the downtown area from destructive flood waters.
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More Mainers are working, but unemployment rate remains at 3.4%
The health care and social assistance sector saw the biggest increases in new workers amid a labor shortage that has caused a crisis in access to health care.
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Waterville to launch program to help maintain, replenish neighborhood street trees
A task force is expected to inventory existing trees on streets in city neighborhoods and work to maintain and replenish those that have been lost, including elm trees, which were ravaged in the 1950s and 1960s by Dutch elm disease.
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Update: Body recovered after fatal logging truck crash in The Forks
Authorities recovered a body from Martin Pond near The Forks after Pierre Alexander Drolet, 35, of Saint-Zacharie, Quebec, was killed in a tractor-trailer crash Thursday morning.
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Filling nuclear power’s $5 trillion hole is beyond the banks
Nuclear power could help reduce the use of fossil fuels, but financiers are waiting for a predictable, stable set of options.
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Flyers score late goal to end seven-game skid against Bruins
Tyson Foerster’s goal with 1:29 left gives Philadelphia its first win over Boston since 2021.
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Nike’s aging Air Force 1s feel heat from fast new runners
The company warns that its sales are taking a hit in the first half of its fiscal year.
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Russia says 60 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid, Islamic State group claims responsibility
Russian news reports said that the assailants threw explosives, triggering a massive blaze at the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Home of Central Maine Idol competition to host American Idol viewing party for last year’s winner
Julia Gagnon, who won the Hallowell-based singing competition last summer, will appear on the next episode of the national TV show, which airs Sunday at 8 p.m.