Memorial Middle School students will get an early start to the holiday break because of this week’s boiler breakdown.
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Minor injuries reported after school bus and pickup truck collide in Winslow Thursday
Minor injuries were reported after a bus carrying students from Palermo Consolidated School to a basketball game at Temple Academy in Waterville collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of routes 32 and 137.
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Search for burglary suspect led to lockout at Gray-New Gloucester schools
The man was taken into custody about 3:45 p.m., the sheriff’s department reports.
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Book lover left USM $500,000 to benefit special collection
The gift from Albert Howard, a longtime library employee who died in 2017, will fund an endowment for the university’s Special Collections at the Glickman Family Library.
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South Portland council backs zoning change for new middle school
Councilors unanimously approve the first reading of a proposal to allow the school on Wescott Road to be as tall as 60 feet.
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Court upholds ruling to let Arundel middle schoolers attend Thornton Academy
The private school and several Arundel parents had sued the RSU 21 board after it voted to stop paying for students to attend its middle school instead of a public school within the district.
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Heating oil odor forces closure of South Portland school for 3rd day
Memorial Middle School students will attend classes at South Portland High School on Thursday while malfunctioning boilers are repaired.
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UMaine Republican group catches flak for ‘Deck the Wall’ party
The group says the event was meant to spark dialogue, but the marketing language fell short.
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University system Chancellor James Page to retire at end of school year
Page, 66, has overseen financial stabilization and a refining of educational goals and priorities in the seven-campus system during his seven years in the job.
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UMaine System, former student drafting agreement to settle her lawsuit
The woman filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the University of Southern Maine did not investigate two separate reports of sexual assault.