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Bates, CMCC make big renovations to athletic facilities

Bates College and Central Maine Community College have spent the summer upgrading, renovating and installing new athletic facilities.

The festival begins with a hip-hop weekend, starting Thursday on the college’s quad.

In hopes of becoming a destination event, it compresses its schedule into nine days in late July.

Bates is the seventh college in the country to reach its goal pronounced in 2007.

by The Editorial Board May 3, 2019May 3, 2019

College students who live here can cast their ballots here, regardless of where they bank or where they register their car.

Students call for administrators to cancel a planned 3.4% increase in the price tag for the next academic year.

by Steve Collins and Jon Bolduc Sun Journal March 17, 2019March 18, 2019

To some, the slogan on the signs is designed to stir up racial fears with a seemingly bland assertion.

What goes on inside the school makes the real difference – not the name on the sign.

by Steve Collins Sun Journal January 13, 2019January 14, 2019

A recent forum and a 1967 letter reveal the debate coach’s key role in shaping the Maine political legend.

by Associated Press January 2, 2019January 2, 2019

The device was taken to the state police crime lab.