The Skowhegan-based school district faces several challenges in the coming year including the possible return of students to reopened schools and a final resolution of the nickname/mascot issue.
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Alfond Foundation backs efforts to develop Waterville tech, innovation startups
A grant awarded Bricks Coworking, Thomas College and Tortoise Labs aims to provide training in design, the development of software and accommodations for startup entrepreneurs.
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Clinton voters to consider $2.8 million budget, candidates for selectmen
The proposed budget on which residents will vote Tuesday represents an 8.6% increase to current spending.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
J.P. Devine: What did you say?
Tracing his own family’s hearing difficulties, J.P. Devine is thinking about age-related problems and patching things up.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Photographer Mike Seamans relates his experience of being tested for COVID-19
With an essential job that brings you into close contact with people who may have been exposed to COVID-19, is there a worse time to experience symptoms listed on the Maine CDC website than the first day of vacation?
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
MIFF centerpiece “American Thief” offers timely view of American political system
“American Thief” is a fiction-documentary hybrid film that used real life events that occurred in the United States between 2015 and 2020 to drive its narrative.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine International Film Festival, Morning Sentinel, Movie Review J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine Movie Review: “The 11th Green” … was Obama with them?
“The 11th Green,” which the Maine International Film Festival is screening Tuesday, is perfect Skowhegan Drive-In movie fare, writes J.P. Devine.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Central Maine family struggles getting COVID testing after returning from Democratic Republic of Congo
Maureen Davis of Skowhegan tried contacting Gov. Janet Mills and Sen. Angus King about the policy in place requiring people to be tested, and the reality that nobody seems to be able to get a test and there is a significant lack of coordination.
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Competing Republican State Senate candidates both worked with LePage
Two Democrats seek party’s nomination for state representative from House District 112, which includes Starks, Anson and Kingfield, among 16 communities in Somerset and Franklin counties.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Augusta, Waterville treated differently under updated mask orders
The two cities are less than 20 miles apart and have similar overnight populations, but only Augusta was identified in the executive order on enforcing mask wearing. The answer might be in the numbers.