Board members express confusion this week over what is included in the budget proposal and have rescheduled vote for Wednesday, March 27.
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Maine news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Mills signs law to create 2 more public defenders offices
The new law will create offices to serve three rural counties that lack enough volunteer lawyers to represent people who can’t afford counsel.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Marshalls is still coming to Farmington
Renovations, which began a year ago, have picked up again at empty storefronts on Hannaford Drive at Hannaford Plaza.
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Pro-Palestine demonstrators plead not guilty to charges from February protest
Some of the 11 defendants said the group rejected a deal with prosecutors that would’ve dismissed their cases after 30 hours of community service.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Waterville City Council gives initial OK to funding housing, nonprofit initiatives
Councilors debated for hours Tuesday night about how to distribute American Rescue Plan Act funding, and must take second votes on funding for housing initiatives and outside agencies that requested money.
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Driver dies after logging truck veers into pond in The Forks
The driver’s identity was confirmed as Pierre Alexander Drolet, 35, of Saint-Zacharie, Quebec.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, News
Fire displaces family, farm animals in Troy
The blaze at 378 Barker Road is believed to have begun in a workshop, before spreading into a barn and house, according to officials.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Victims of Oct. 25 mass shooting share $4.7 million in donations
Money raised by Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund will help survivors and the families of the 18 people slain in Lewiston.
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Biden administration declares disaster in Maine from January storms, unlocking federal aid
Maine’s 8 coastal counties will be eligible for funding to rebuild from an estimated $70 million in damage caused by storms on Jan. 10 and Jan. 13.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Maine Crime
Two men indicted in postal robberies, burglaries in Paris, Monmouth and Lewiston
Winston McLeod of New Jersey and Lance Funderburk of New York were charged by a federal grand jury Wednesday in a five-count indictment.