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Business

UCU opens full-service location in Augusta

February 3, 2024July 12, 2024

A ribbon cutting and open house is planned for July 23.

Health, Local & State, News

Maine leaders ask U.S. Supreme Court to remove abortion pill restrictions

by Dennis Hoey January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

Attorney General Aaron Frey and Gov. Janet Mills join 23 other states in asking the justices to protect access to mifepristone.

Local & State

Fake bomb threats sent to Jewish places of worship in Maine

by Dennis Hoey December 17, 2023December 18, 2023

Congregation Bet Ha’am in South Portland was one of the Maine synagogues targeted Sunday.

Editorials, Opinion

Our View: Low pay for state employees is hurting everyone

by The Editorial Board September 8, 2023September 7, 2023

Compensation for state workers undervalues their work. As a result, both the workers and the work are suffering.

Local & State, Nation & World, News, Politics

Texas Republican files suit in effort to keep Trump off Maine’s presidential ballot

by Dennis Hoey September 7, 2023September 8, 2023

John Anthony Castro, a write-in Republican presidential candidate, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Portland seeking to disqualify the former president from the 2024 ballot, alleging that he violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Community, Kennebec Journal

Old Fort Western celebrates life of Martha Ballard

August 12, 2023August 21, 2023

AUGUSTA — Old Fort Western plans to celebrate the life of Martha Ballard with the program Martha Ballard’s World: Wife, Mother, Healer, Horticulturist. The event is set for 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, at the 16 Cony St. fort. The following rotating stations center on activities about which Ballard wrote in her diary. • At […]