Voters also chose 7 members of the new Charter Review Commission and picked a Democratic nominee for the York County Commissioners.
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Westbrook voters approve $57.2M school budget
The total municipal and school budget is $106.5 million.
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Read the poem ‘The countryside of age is made of wrinkles’ by Jo Radner
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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EMS crews scramble as Maine hospitals end drug partnership
2 Maine hospital groups say the DEA is forcing them to stop supplying local EMS with critical drugs. The feds say they’re wrong. Local EMS crews are caught in between.
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South Portland voters approve $76.2M school budget
Taxes will increase by 6%.
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Cape Elizabeth passes $38.7M school budget
It raises the overall tax rate by 7.13%.
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Freeport-area voters approve school budget
Nearly 4,000 cast “yes” votes for the school budget, according to unofficial results.
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Ron Russell wins Republican 1st District primary, will face Chellie Pingree
Russell, a military veteran from Kennebunkport, and Joshua Pietrowicz, a former car salesman from New Gloucester, were vying to win the Republican nomination.
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Sanford voters approve $74M school budget
The budget is up 7.42% from the current year.
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Saco voters approve $59.9M school budget
The budget represents a 4.74% increase over this year’s and will require a nearly 10% tax hike.