Amber Lavigne, of Newcastle, sued Great Salt Bay Community School officials, saying they provided her child with a chest binder and allowed the child to use pronouns different than the ones assigned at birth.
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Maine news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Gov. Mills to create commission to prepare Maine for more battering storms
Mills will sign an executive order Tuesday to create the commission in the wake of an extremely warm and stormy winter.
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Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, News, Schools and Education
For this year’s Somerset County Teacher of the Year, teaching runs in the family
Kaley Brown, a social studies teacher at Skowhegan Area High School, won the award this year, nearly a decade after her mother, a Skowhegan Area Middle School math teacher, won the same award.
Posted inMaine, News
Lawrence High School students release salmon fry into the Sandy River in Farmington
Peter Kallin, interim chief executive officer of 7 Lakes Alliance in the Belgrade Lakes area, gave students in Eric Brown’s ecology and biology classes a lesson in the cycle stages of salmon.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Maine university system trustees approve $650 million budget that includes tuition increases
The board also voted to extend Chancellor Dannel Malloy’s contract by another 2 years, though the exact terms have not been negotiated.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Public hearings on Kennebec River dam relicensing set for this week in Waterville, Augusta
Some say relicensing the four dams would harm fish and wildlife along the river, while others argue losing the dams could cripple the central Maine economy.
Posted inMaine, News
8 Maine communities will share $22 million in federal cleanup grants
The state will receive another $11 million to support 4 already existing state programs that assist with so-called .
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Hartland Historical Society buys its first-ever home
The Hartland Historical Society purchased the Fuller Mansion on Friday after a rigorous fundraising campaign, and plans to place all of its items being stored around town there and turn the second floor into a research and education center.
Posted inMaine, News
Weeks Mills Road in Farmington closed Wednesday for culvert replacement
Osborne Road will be accessible, but traffic coming from New Sharon will be detoured to Bailey Hill Road.
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$19 million in Maine pandemic relief checks never got cashed
The Mills administration said Monday that 40,000, or 2%, of the 2.3 million checks issued by the state over a 3-year period have not been cashed and are now being treated as unclaimed property.