The group urges city officials to help create a year-round homeless shelter and hire a worker to coordinate housing services.
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Posted inOutdoors, Sports
For turkey call youngsters, practice makes perfect
Youngsters put forth their best calls at the 43rd annual State of Maine Sportsman’s Show at the Augusta Civic Center.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Schools and Education
Some Maine schools shorted because of yearslong DOE mistake
The mistake in how money paid to independent schools for public school students is calculated was discovered earlier this year by Maine’s education department and dates back to 2016.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Morning Sentinel, News
See polar plunging, State House events and a baby chick in Central Maine’s Week In Photos
Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Gov. Janet Mills swears in 4 new judges, including state supreme court associate justice
Julia Lipez is now an associate justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Halle Berry testifies before Maine Legislature to support menopause education
‘I’m in menopause, and I had no idea,’ the actress told the Health and Human Services Committee. ‘None of my doctors ever talked to me about it.’
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime, News
Benton man pleads guilty to murder, sentenced to 29 years
Raheem Goodwin, who pleaded guilty on Friday, will serve 29 years in prison for the 2023 murder of Edwin Weeks in Fairfield.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Maine Crime, News
Windsor man sentenced to 20 years for sexual assaults on girl
Peter Cayouette’s victim testified she was assaulted hundreds of times for a year, when she was 11 and 12 years old.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, News
Kennebec County officials approve 9.6% spending increase
The budget now goes to county commissioners for final approval.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, News
Augusta Recovery Reentry Center closes
The center, a safe, sober space for people in recovery from substance abuse, or reentering society after imprisonment, lacks funding to continue operations after Thursday.