With fewer large factories to shut down, the state avoided the catastrophic industrial layoffs seen elsewhere.
2025
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Pell Grant expansion is a win — once we follow through | Letter
Maine’s workforce is changing, and our education systems must keep pace. The new Workforce Pell Grant framework, passed into law this summer, is a crucial step toward giving students the flexibility to pursue the programs that align with their career goals. By allowing students to use Pell Grants for short-term, career-focused training, Congress has opened […]
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Meet Cape Elizabeth’s new council chair
Elizabeth Scifres is committed to organizational efficiency and transparency.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Is Maine meeting its housing production goals? The state doesn’t know yet.
A 2023 report that identified the need for 84,000 homes by 2030 laid out specific county-by-county production goals, but officials won’t have data until the spring.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Outdoors, Review
A fascinating month-by-month guide introduces young readers to the Northeast woods
Lavishly illustrated by Down East resident Jada Fitch, ‘The Forest Revealed’ is aimed at child naturalists, but offers just as much for adults.
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Bestsellers: ‘The Correspondent’ and ‘Rope’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Read the poem ‘Still,’ by Susan Deborah King
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine, News
In the Farnsworth’s new exhibit, see the secret spots that inspired Andrew Wyeth
The exhibition of 26 paintings — some never publicly exhibited before — reveal a secluded place on the Goose River that Wyeth’s wife once called his ‘secret subject.’
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Maine is down another trauma center. What does that mean?
There were 3 trauma centers in Maine before a Lewiston hospital decided not to recertify in December.
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Alarmed by EPA’s pesticide approvals | Letter
On Nov. 20, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the pesticide isocycloseram for use on foods such as fruits, vegetables, cereals, legumes, tree nuts, peanuts, coffee and sugar cane as well as for lawns and golf courses. Isocycloseram contains PFAS, a highly persistent chemical that is harmful to humans and extremely toxic to bees. Human […]