The college has experienced record student enrollment in the last few years.
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China school has a new well but concerns over water contamination linger
RSU 18 is working with the state to install a filtration system for the well that was dug over the summer for China Middle School, which contended last year with unacceptably high levels of PFAS and then more recently when the chemical antimony was detected.
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Biden responds to Livermore Falls student’s letter about climate change
‘Always remember — when you make your voice heard, adults listen,’ President Biden wrote to Cooper Stevenson, now 9.
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Westbrook High placed in lockout after student brings unloaded gun to school
A 14-year-old student was taken into custody Thursday and charged with theft of a firearm and terrorizing.
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School districts grapple with vaping in high schools
Some are considering installing vape detectors in restrooms, but there is no easy solution for what some educators consider a public health crisis.
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Heat-related school closures prompt Winthrop family to donate 14 air conditioners
The donation provides each classroom at Winthrop Grade School with an air conditioner.
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UMaine System hopes to invest $1.2 billion in 400 projects over the next 5 years
Saying an investment in the schools’ infrastructure is overdue, leaders of the system and the individual universities laid out capital plans for the next 5 years at a board of trustees meeting Monday.
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UNE students hunt for ways to develop shark deterrent for fishermen
They are studying how low-level electrical impulses might be used to repel sharks from stealing the catch of commercial and recreational fishermen.
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‘Everyone is in shock and mourning all the lost ones,’ U.S. students at UNE campus in Morocco say
Jack Hooker and Amaya West, students at UNE’s Morocco campus, recount the last few days in Tangier. Since the quake hit, an atmosphere of shock and sadness has fallen over the city, they say.
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Black history is ‘being attacked.’ These parents found alternatives.
After Florida began changing its teaching standards on Black history, Kristin Fulwylie Thomas, a former political organizer, quit her job and decided to work full time on a nonprofit she had founded in 2015, the Black History Project.