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News and information from the greater Augusta area.
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Free health and wellness workshops available
Augusta YMCA partners with health network to bring chronic disease self-management and falls prevention classes
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Augusta hospice thrift store seeks volunteers
All proceeds from Androscoggin’s stores support patient care in the community.
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Augusta-based chamber to host Women’s Network Luncheon
AUGUSTA — The Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce plans to host a Women’s Network Luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 13 at the Augusta Civic Center, 76 Community Drive. Rachel Zaccariam, a certified nurse and midwife with MaineGeneral Health, will give a presentation entitled “Women’s Health — Take Time for Your Health,” […]
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Maranacook Community High School in ‘outbreak status’ following series of COVID-19 cases, staff shortages
At Wednesday night’s Regional School Unit 38 board meeting, Superintendent Jay Charette did not recommend a different course of action regarding the COVID-19 cases and said he expects them to ‘pass with April vacation.’
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University of Maine at Augusta names Michael Laliberte as new president after a 6-month search
Laliberte, who’s been president of State University of New York at Delhi since 2016, was chosen unanimously by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees and will start on Aug. 1.
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Kennebec-Somerset county district attorney was mentored as a student by Ketanji Brown Jackson
Maeghan Maloney attended Harvard Law School with Ketanji Brown Jackson, the newly-confirmed Supreme Court justice whom she described as brilliant, kind and someone willing to answer tough questions.
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West Gardiner approves budget, bigger raises for town staff
Amendments from the floor will give town employees a 4% raise this year, rather than the 2% proposed in the $1.45 million spending plan.
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Gardiner names city manager following yearlong search
Andrew R. Carlton, now the superintendent in the Wales-area school district, is expected to begin new job June 6.
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Facing a potential $1.2 million budget increase, Winthrop sets workshop schedule
The proposed budget of $17.9 million includes wage increases for some town workers and first responders.