SKOWHEGAN — The new director of the Somerset Career & Technical Center said his experience with the Air Force, Sappi Fine Paper and teaching electronics engineering and robotics soon will make the center one of the best in the state.
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Posted inPolitics
Obama’s next goal: comprehensive immigration reform
The president wants a catch-all bill that secures the border and offers a path to citizenship, officials say.
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Inland, Sebasticook Valley hospitals credit culture, computers for high ratings
Administrators at Inland Hospital, Sebasticook Valley Health explain high rankings
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Former Jefferson resident readies for ‘Amazing Race’ TV finale Sunday
Kitty O’Neill had a sense early on that her son was ready for bigger challenges, bigger opportunities, than those he was getting as a boy in the tiny town of Jefferson.
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Belgrade farm family protects 142-year-old homestead as ‘Forever Farm’
BELGRADE — Winterberry Farm on Route 27, with pastures and vegetable fields that stretch back to Great Pond, has been around 1870.
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Readfield seeks better management of public comment at meetings
READFIELD — At many meetings of school boards or municipal officials in Maine, the audience is small or nonexistent, and there are few public comments.
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Local youths build robots to answer seniors’ needs at state Lego competition
AUGUSTA — Madison Corgan, 10, loaded a blue-and-white piece of “quilt” into the arms of her team’s robot, Sam, pushed a button or two and then watched, smiling widely but nervously, as the Lego robot went about the tasks the team had programmed it to do.
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A Maine Sunday Telegram Special Report
First of four parts: Nearly half of the people shot by Maine police over the past decade had mental health problems or were impaired, and most of the officers who pulled the trigger lacked readily available training that might have prevented these tragedies.
Posted inCommunity
SNAPSHOT: Rain on my parade
Thekla Jubinville wears a rain poncho over her wrapped present costume, as she marches down Water Street in the “Who’s Your Favorite Who” parade on Saturday, in downtown Gardiner.
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UPDATE: Hallowell fireworks rescheduled to Sunday
HALLOWELL – The Christmas in Old Hallowell fireworks have been rescheduled to Sunday, at 5:15 p.m., because of rain today, according to an organizer. A parade scheduled for Saturday was replaced with a smaller, informal procession.