An ad hoc committee recommended maintaining investment practices after a student referendum last May called on the college to divest from companies that support Israel.
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Skowhegan-area school board to consider compliance with Trump order
After a board member tried to force a vote Thursday about whether the board would explicitly follow the Trump administration’s orders, the board chair said the matter would have to be taken up at the next meeting.
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38% of LGBTQ+ youth in Maine have considered suicide, national report says
A new report on the well-being of LGBTQ+ people ages 13 to 24 shows high rates of suicidal ideation, depression and anxiety, and a negative effect from politics.
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Thomas Moser, renowned Maine furniture maker, dies at 90
He founded Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers in 1972 out of a garage in New Gloucester and went on to create furniture for popes and presidents.
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Wind knocks out power for thousands of CMP customers
By Saturday morning, power had been restored to all but a few thousand customers, with Oxford County hit the hardest.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Maine to drop charges, release people from jail over public defense failures
Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy gives Maine’s public defense agency 1 month before criminal defendants who cannot afford their own attorneys are released from jail if they have waited more than 2 weeks for a lawyer.
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Maine’s ‘energy economy’ grows as Trump cuts loom over zero-carbon power
The state has benefited from about $800 million made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
Academic standing ‘not sustainable’ without larger endowment, Bates College warns
President Garry Jenkins aims to bolster fundraising to catch up with its academic peers.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Union leaders in Maine condemn cancellation of TSA officers contract
‘Everything we’ve worked for is in the wind,’ said a union representative for 140 federal airport security officers in Maine.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Deadly police shooting of Belfast man who threatened arson ruled self-defense
Daniel Ryan was shot and killed by Waldo County Sgt. Nicholas Oettinger last year after police said he swung a burning can of gas at them.