The council, school board, and Superintendent Timothy Matheney collaborate to discuss fiscal year 2025 budget guidance, addressing challenges such as a diverse student body, enrollment shifts, and the impact of COVID-era fund losses.
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Cultivating well-being during the winter months
Cultivating Well-Being’s winter solstice event, led by Laura Simonds-Rumpf and Colleen E. Griffin, highlighted therapeutic horticulture’s sensory activities and community connection.
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Bellows opposes Trump request to pause ruling in Maine ballot case
The secretary of state argues that pausing action on the former president’s appeal would violate the timeline set out in state statute and could negatively affect the March 5 primary election.
Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier
Protestors target General Dynamics factory in Saco
Demonstrators believe it’s likely that guided missile directors produced at the factory are used by Israel in its ongoing military campaign in Gaza.
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Blinken urges Israel to engage with region on postwar plans that include path to Palestinian state
The U.S. secretary of state says five Middle Eastern nations have agreed to begin planning for the reconstruction and governance of Gaza once the war ends.
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One person dies Tuesday morning in collision on Route 26 in Poland
A vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer truck near Cyndi’s Dockside restaurant.
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Earth shatters global heat record in 2023, flirting with warming limit, European agency says
The climate agency Copernicus says last year was 2.66 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than pre-industrial times.
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Sprawling storms wallop U.S. with tornado reports, damage and heavy snow
At least 3 deaths were attributed to the storm pummeling the South.
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With Trump present in court, judges express skepticism of immunity claims
Because no former president before Trump has been indicted, courts have never addressed whether immunity protection extends to criminal prosecution.
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Community News – Southern Maine Community College selects next president
The Board of Trustees of the Maine Community College System confirmed the recommendation of President David Daigler and appointed Dr. Kristen Miller as the next president of Southern Maine Community College (SMCC). She will begin in February. Miller was most recently the vice president of academic affairs at White Mountains Community College in New Hampshire, […]