ProPublica reported this week that two Georgia women died after they did not get proper medical treatment for complications from taking abortion pills to end their pregnancies.
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Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, News
KVCAP plans to begin construction on 37-unit Waterville apartment complex this winter
The three-story development will be located beside KVCAP’s Waterville location on the corners of King and Gold streets, the organization said.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Winthrop’s school budget has nearly $700,000 shortfall, interim superintendent says
Interim Superintendent Becky Foley spotted the error in her second week on the job and told the Winthrop School Board Wednesday.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, Politics
Internal Secret Service report details failures preceding Trump assassination attempt
The report details a series of ‘communications deficiencies’ with local law enforcement before the July shooting and makes clear that the Secret Service knew the rally site posed a security challenge.
Posted inErin Merrill, Events
Missed it? Rewatch Maine Voices Live Waterville: A conversation about women in hunting and wildlife conservation
This conversation will take place on Tuesday, November 12 at 7 p.m. at Greene Block + Studios in Waterville.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Maine preservation group lists Fayette’s Starling Hall among most endangered places
Starling Hall is the oldest building in Maine to have been built as a Grange Hall.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Morning Sentinel, News
Construction to begin in Unity on Maine’s first halal slaughterhouse
Hussam Al Rawi and his wife, Kathryn Piper, opened Five Pillars Butchery, a halal meat processing business in 2017, after moving to Maine the previous year. The couple were awarded nearly $3 million in federal grants earlier this year to add a slaughterhouse to the butchery at 119 Bangor Road.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Morning Sentinel, News, Uncategorized
Week In Photos Sept. 13-20, 2024
Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.
Posted inNation & World
Israeli airstrike on Beirut kills a top Hezbollah military official as Lebanon reports 14 died
The attacks have heightened fears that the cross-border exchanges of fire will escalate into all-out war.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, Schools and Education
Sixth grader arrested after Gray-New Gloucester school bus evacuated
Police searched the 11-year-old suspect’s home and found the ‘suspicious device,’ which was determined not to be an explosive. The boy was released to his parents while the district attorney considers whether to file charges.