The select board has yet to decide if they will provide an option on the warrant to use the Kennebec Valley Humane Society as an alternative to the town’s shelter.
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Posted inMaine colleges, Sports, Times Record Sports
Colby College graduate tabbed to lead women’s professional hockey league
Reagan Carey, who has family ties to Maine’s River Valley, is the next commissioner of the Premier Hockey Federation.
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Posted inBoston Celtics, Sports
Celtics show no fear against Nets or whoever comes next
Boston swept Brooklyn, considered a team to be feared, and will carry that confidence into the second round.
Posted inMaine Crime, News
New Vineyard man accused of sexually assaulting a girl
John Mills, 43, was arrested Monday on a charge of gross sexual assault.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Nearly 60% of U.S. adults and 75% of children have had coronavirus infections
The news came as Pfizer sought permission to offer a booster dose to kids ages 5 to 11, just like people 12 and older can get.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Supreme Court could free Biden to end Trump asylum border policy
The heart of the fight is whether, with far less detention capacity than needed, immigration authorities must send people to Mexico or have the discretion to release asylum-seekers into the United States while they await their hearings.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
U.S. presses allies to send more weapons to Ukraine over fear of an expanding war
Russian advances and heavy fighting were reported in the Donbas, with one town, Kreminna, apparently falling, while in the gutted southern city of Mariupol, Russia hit the Azovstal steel plant with 35 airstrikes over 24 hours.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Kamala Harris positive for COVID-19, Biden not a ‘close contact’
Neither President Joe Biden nor first lady Jill Biden was considered a ‘close contact’ of Vice President Kamala Harris in recent days.
Posted inMaine, News
State to repay inmates for seized unemployment benefits
About 50 incarcerated people will receive the money taken two years ago amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Maine Crime, Schools and Education
Cony Middle and High School, Madison Area High School evacuated due to bomb threats
The Augusta and Madison-area schools are among several in Maine that were alerted to automated calls about bomb threats on campus Tuesday. It’s unclear who sent the calls and how many schools were affected.