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.
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Arundel reelects Thomas Danylik to select board, Mandy Cummings to school board
Both races were won by their incumbents Tuesday night.
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Brunswick voters approve $61.2M school budget
Nearly 6,000 residents backed the school department budget.
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Falmouth approves fire station project, school budget
Voters elected Bryce Hach and Michael Vance to the Falmouth Town Council.
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Meet the man who wants to put ballistic backpacks in every Maine classroom
Jeffrey Maguire, of Houlton, does private security for the rich and famous.
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We tested a bullet-resistant backpack made in Maine. Here’s what happened.
A Houlton manufacturer thinks his body shields can protect students statewide. So we took one to a shooting range.
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Watch 2 experts shoot a Maine-made bullet-resistant backpack
A retired chief firearms officer for the state corrections department and a founder of Portland police’s SWAT team took a Mundbora body shield to a shooting range.
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Gorham voters getting texts urging them to check AI-generated budget website
It’s not clear who is behind the site, which claims to be an ‘independent analysis of public records’ and identifies ‘red flags’ in the district’s proposed school budget.
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Maine student 1 of 3 in US to win research spot for her work on cancer cells
‘My goal is to help children,’ says Alexis Spencer of Sabattus, a junior at Thomas College.