After studying what it would take to return students to in-person learning five days a week, Augusta officials decided it ‘wasn’t feasible’ to change the schedule for the last 40 days of the school year.
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Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Pickup truck damaged in accident with tractor-trailer on I-95 in Waterville
Driver of pickup suffers minor injuries, according to a Maine State Police spokeswoman.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
Monmouth voters to decide on middle school demolition, $3.6 million in spending at Town Meeting
Voters will also decide on a $30,000 expenditure for a playground at the town beach, which was taken off of the warrant by selectmen in March but reinstated Tuesday by a citizen’s petition.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Morning Sentinel
State pulling proposed change to Kennebec River Management Plan
The agency will start again to create a fisheries management plan that will likely take into consideration the information it received from more than 1,100 comments, the most it has ever seen.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Carrabec schools to go completely in-person this fall, superintendent says
Regional School Unit 74 Superintendent Mike Tracy told the board of directors Wednesday evening that the district will eliminate hybrid and remote learning options.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
Lawyer: Donor of controversial Augusta statue might be willing to take back his gift
A lawyer representing Robert Fuller Jr., who donated the statue of Melville W. Fuller to Kennebec County in 2013, suggested his client is willing to take back his gift.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Rome wants to leave the group running an Oakland business park. But can they?
Rome would be the first of the 24 towns in the Kennebec Regional Development Authority to withdraw, but an attorney familiar with the legislation does not think it’s possible.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Son of former Richmond police chief told student with loaded gun to tell the teacher
Tripp MacMaster, 11, said he learned from his father what to do in a situation similar to the incident at Richmond’s Marcia Buker Elementary School on Tuesday.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Sentinel photographer one of 400 to get COVID-19 shot at Skowhegan clinic
Rich Abrahamson said he was through the procedure in 45 minutes on the first day that the clinic could vaccinate people as young as 18.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Proposed $26.6 million Winslow town budget includes 2 mill tax increase
The tax rate is going up from $18.82 to $20.82 per $1,000 of valuation.