PORTLAND & ELLSWORTH — More than $105,000 in Maine Community Foundation grants are set to help strengthen nonprofit organizations and projects in Franklin and Somerset counties. MaineCF’s Western Mountains Grantmaking Committee awarded $94,450 to 14 regional organizations through the foundation’s Community Building Grant Program. MaineCF donors with advised funds made three additional grants totaling $11,477. […]
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Hall-Dale Middle School names honor students
Hall-Dale Middle School recently announced its second semester honor roll students for the 2023-24 academic year. Grade 6 Cum laude: Haylee Albee, Hugo Anderson, Ian Bolduc, Alyssa Casoria, William Chamberlain, David Chapman, Uriah Ciccarelli, Riley Cole, Rylee Donahue, Emmerson Ellis, Mason Free, Pearce Hammonds, Remy Hernandez, Guinevere Lester, Cylas Lewis, Paige Massey, Bryson Nichols, Sophia […]
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EPA awards $4.3 billion to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution
Maine will get a portion of $450 million to accelerate adoption of cold-climate heat pumps and water heaters.
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Malicious actors trying to exploit global tech outage for their own gain
Government cybersecurity agencies across the globe and CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz are warning businesses and individuals about new phishing schemes.
Posted inAnimals, Business, Health
Meet some of the world’s cleanest pigs, raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans
After decades of failed attempts, companies including Revivicor, eGenesis and Makana Therapeutics are engineering pigs to be more humanlike.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, News
Northern lights possible over Maine this week as active solar season flares up again
One of the most vibrant aurora seasons in years continues this summer as a medium-size solar storm is forecasted to arrive in Maine skies Tuesday night.
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Most airlines except one are recovering from the CrowdStrike tech outage. The feds have noticed
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke to Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Sunday about the airline’s high number of cancellations since Friday.
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Maine Supreme Judicial Court upholds St. Albans man’s child sexual assault conviction
Corey W. Farley, now 33, was sentenced to 23 years in prison after a Somerset County jury found him guilty of gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual contact.
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Working waterfronts from Kittery to Eastport to receive $21.2 million for storm recovery
Gov. Janet Mills announced that 68 Maine working waterfronts will get grants of up to $2 million apiece to aid recovery from catastrophic winter storms.
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U.S.-Russian journalist convicted in a secret trial in Russia, sentenced to 6½ years in prison
The conviction of Alsu Kurmasheva came on Friday, the same day that a court in Yekaterinburg convicted reporter Evan Gershkovich of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years.