Youth should not have to be experiencing the ills we have created, including allowing a pandemic to get out of control, restricting how they live their lives, Amy Calder writes.
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Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter navigates pandemic times with supportive partnerships
Waterville’s homeless shelter looks to improve on service as pandemic continues.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Augusta’s Cony High School to offer African American studies class next academic year
The class will be taught by T.J. Maines, starting with African history before the beginning of the United States and ending with the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Thorndike voters reject moratorium on pot business
In August 2020 the town opted into the state’s adult-use marijuana policy, but selectmen wanted to draft the town’s own ordinance on pot business, which called a halt to the sale of Donald Maxim’s farm to a commercial pot grower.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Hallowell-, Readfield-area schools report positive COVID-19 cases
Prekindergarten students at Hall-Dale and Readfield elementary schools are attending class remotely Friday.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
Augusta task force advocates for substance use recovery readiness
Officials say the coronavirus pandemic has left more people isolated who have turned to increasingly dangerous opiates.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
Augusta approves mobile home in zoning district where they are banned
Some officials said the city ought to reconsider its practice of treating mobile homes differently than those built on site.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel
Skowhegan Fire Department signs mutual aid agreement with Oakland
Skowhegan is one of many fire departments branching out to other communities to help with emergency services as the availability and amount of help becomes less.
Posted inMorning Sentinel, Schools and Education
Close contacts cause Messalonskee High School to go remote until Jan. 25
China Primary School in Regional School Unit 18 has also reported a case of COVID-19 infection, but will remain open.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Augusta Board of Education discusses risk of unrest at, near State House
Since Augusta does not have in-person learning Wednesdays, Superintendent James Anastasio says he does not expect students to face safety issues related to the presidential inauguration.