Six towns agree to $34.2 million budget, about a 1 percent increase over last year’s.
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Vassalboro adopts $7.1 million school budget
Voters also elect selectman, sanitary district trustees, school board member.
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Madison residents approve SAD 59 budget, re-elect Fortin
A $9.5 million school budget was approved in Madison Tuesday by voters who also re-elected Selectman Paul Fortin.
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Embden residents give go-ahead to school withdrawal
Residents in Embden voted Tuesday to form a school withdrawal committee and look further into leaving School Administrative District 74.
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Winslow voters overwhelmingly adopt budget
Voter turnout for Tuesday’s elections was 1.4 percent.
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SAD 13 residents approve $3.4 million budget
The budget, including a decrease in the amount of taxes to be raised locally, was approved Tuesday in a referendum in Bingham and Moscow.
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SAD 58 voters decide against stripped-down budget
A $9.4 million budget was pared to $256,000 at a budget meeting two weeks ago and residents of Phillips, Strong, Kingfield and Avon decided Tuesday to send the budget back to the school board.
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UMF history professor to study civil rights question
Chris O’Brien says an Iowa senator’s contradictory votes on civil rights bills in the 1950s and ’60s are relevant today.
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How relations affect Maine leadership PACs
As a sociologist, I see the world as consisting of two kinds of objects: individual people or groups and the relationships that exist between them. To understand the social world, we need to track both. To see what I mean, let’s look at Maine leadership PACs, fundraising groups led by members of the Maine State Legislature. On March 8 the […]
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Farrington principal OK’d putting math materials into testing classrooms, teachers’ union says
The principal resigned in the wake of the state’s announcement it was invalidating results of tests taken by 106 students.