The new funding could fill some gaps, but bandwidth for actually using the money at the local level may remain a challenge.
September 2024
Posted inSports
Tigers pass Twins in AL wild-card race
Detroit hands Baltimore its fifth straight loss to move a game ahead of Minnesota for a wild-card spot.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Maine’s watchdog agency spent years investigating 4 child deaths. Here are the takeaways.
The Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability presented its final report to the Legislature last week. Lawmakers wanted to know: What could the child welfare office have done differently?
Posted inNews
The Week in Photos: Sept. 14-20, 2024
Sun Journal photographers select some of their favorite images from last week.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools & Education
Why is building and renovating schools so expensive?
Maine Department of Education data of state-funded major construction projects shows how costs have grown in recent years.
Posted inSports
Giants beat Browns to earn first win of season
Daniel Jones throws two touchdown passes in New York’s 21-15 victory.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation / World, News, Politics
For some parents, surging child care costs could determine how they vote
Parents struggle with access to child care, and once they find it, with how to pay for it.
Posted inFranklin, Maine, News
Farmington’s only homeless shelter closed in 2020. Efforts to open a new one have failed.
In western Maine, services are provided through a decentralized patchwork of nonprofits, school liaisons and other assistance programs.
Posted inNation / World, News
With nuclear option unlikely, Putin struggles to defend his red lines
Inside the Kremlin, there is a growing recognition that the repeated use of the nuclear threat is starting to lose its potency.
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Photo: A man and his Muppets
A group of artists decorate traffic control boxes throughout Lewiston on Saturday.