The director of Eastern Maine Development Corp. explained its training and job placement programs available to displaced workers.
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Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Turn off the lights, buy local, ride your bike: How to make every day Earth Day
Local environmentalists and leaders are encouraging Mainers to do their part for Earth Day’s 51st anniversary.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston dog attack victim still hospitalized, thankful for support
The victim of a vicious dog attack at her home last week, Constance Veilleux remains at Central Maine Medical Center where she will likely undergo further surgeries to repair damage to both arms suffered in the attack.
Posted inBoston Red Sox, Sports
John Henry, Liverpool and Red Sox owner, apologizes to soccer fans
Liverpool is out of the 12-team project and owner John Henry says “I alone am responsible for the unnecessary negativity brought forward over the past couple of days.”
Posted inSports
Women’s world hockey championships in Nova Scotia postponed due to virus concerns
The tournament was scheduled to start May 6, but now officials are scrambling to find a new site after Canadian health officials called for the tournament to be called off.
Posted inNation / World
Those who still deny a warming planet grasp for increasingly far-fetched explanations
Instead of focusing on denialism, climate misinformation is getting local, focused on extreme weather events tied to a changing climate.
Posted inNation / World
Biden is convening a global virtual summit as U.S. returns to climate fight
The U.S. is looking to such allies as Japan and Canada to announce their own intensified climate efforts, hoping that will spur China and others to slow building of coal-fired power plants and otherwise chill their smokestacks.
Posted inMaine
Mainers’ lawsuit will challenge 30-year-old legal standard for public access to private beaches
The case revives the fight that resulted in 2 rulings in the 1980s, when the Maine Supreme Judicial Court found that beachfront property owners own all the way to the low tide line.
Posted inMaine, News
New interactive map shows mass transit routes to vaccine providers in southern Maine
COVID-19 vaccine providers are highlighted on bus, train and ferry routes throughout Cumberland and York counties.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, New England, News
FBI warns of telephone scammers, posing as federal agents, who bilked 44 Mainers
The agency’s Boston Division says it’s seeing an increase in reports about scammers targeting residents of Maine and other New England states through unsolicited, often spoofed, phone calls.