The lack of a state budget means voters will have to make school budget decisions Tuesday based on revenue predictions that may, or may not, come true.

But with recent cuts to health departments, rules may not reflect what’s happening.

They lost nearly everything they owned in the three fires that destroyed nine buildings in downtown Lewiston in the space of a week.

PORTLAND — Gov. Paul LePage will be the featured speaker at the Portland Regional Chamber’s Eggs and Issues forum Wednesday morning, but he has yet to reveal the issues he’ll bring up at the breakfast event.

F is for “fabulous” or “family” — anything but “failing,” said parents outside the Hall Elementary School on Thursday afternoon.About two dozen parents gathered at their children’s school to greet staff members — and support them — a day after the school got an F in the Maine Department of Education’s new school grading system.

Alewives will be in new territory when a fishway built on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook is opened.