LIVERMORE — Norlands Living History Center is accepting applications for the 2021 Gammon History Education Scholarship Awards. The year-two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to qualifying high school seniors or students with equivalent education credentials. To be eligible, students must be from Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford or Kennebec counties and have plans to enroll in post-secondary […]
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Posted inCommunity, Morning Sentinel
Waterville Junior High lists honor students
Waterville Junior High School has announced its third-quarter honor roll for the 2020-21 academic year. Grade 8 — High honors: Savya Acharya, Corbin Anderson, Dustin Bearce, Brady Dyer, India Sky Hernandez, Sarah Johnson, Nadia Morrison, Jennie Parkhill, Kaethe Rice, Jadyn Russell, Alexander Turner and Sadie Williams. Honors: Brenden Beckwith, Teegan Carr, Gage Chamberlain, Emma Davis, Jesse […]
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Turn off the lights, buy local, ride your bike: How to make every day Earth Day
Local environmentalists and leaders are encouraging Mainers to do their part for Earth Day’s 51st anniversary.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State
Concerns about road paving plans emerge as Gardiner proposes budget with tax hike
Municipal officials are expected to continue discussing the proposed $6.5 million budget, a 5% increase in spending that would increase the property tax rate by 60 cents. The increase would boost the tax rate to $22.30 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, or $2,230 per $100,000.
Posted inNation & World
Those who still deny a warming planet grasp for increasingly far-fetched explanations
Instead of focusing on denialism, climate misinformation is getting local, focused on extreme weather events tied to a changing climate.
Posted inNation & World
Biden is convening a global virtual summit as U.S. returns to climate fight
The U.S. is looking to such allies as Japan and Canada to announce their own intensified climate efforts, hoping that will spur China and others to slow building of coal-fired power plants and otherwise chill their smokestacks.
Posted inLocal & State
Mainers’ lawsuit will challenge 30-year-old legal standard for public access to private beaches
The case revives the fight that resulted in 2 rulings in the 1980s, when the Maine Supreme Judicial Court found that beachfront property owners own all the way to the low tide line.
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FBI warns of telephone scammers, posing as federal agents, who bilked 44 Mainers
The agency’s Boston Division says it’s seeing an increase in reports about scammers targeting residents of Maine and other New England states through unsolicited, often spoofed, phone calls.
Posted inOpinion
Tell us: Do you agree with Kennebec County’s decision to remove a controversial statue outside of the courthouse and return it back to its owner?
The donated statue outside Augusta’s Kennebec County courthouse is of Melville Fuller, who presided over the Supreme Court that decided a landmark case establishing the separate-but-equal doctrine that paved the way for decades of racial segregation.
Posted inNation & World
Putin vows ‘quick and tough’ Moscow response for its foes
The warning during his annual state-of-the-nation address comes amid a massive Russian military buildup near Ukraine.