Town spending nearly $200,000 to address adequate staffing at schools, and finding ways to assist families with laundry and transportation needs.
Marla Hoffman
Staff Writer
Marla has been a journalist for nearly 20 years at newspapers in Maine and Connecticut. She has been a writer, a designer, a photographer, a columnist, and for six years led the nighttime production and copy editing team at the Sun Journal. Marla is currently a Sun Journal Deputy Managing Editor, heading up the Maine Trust for Local News’ Western Maine newspapers. She lives in Auburn with her husband, kids, dog, two cats, a bearded dragon and a snake.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine Yankee to issue update on Wiscasset nuclear waste
WISCASSET — The Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel on Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage will meet Tuesday to update Wiscasset residents on the status of the 64 containers of nuclear waste stored at the former Maine Yankee power plant site. The federal government was contractually obligated to remove the radioactive waste by 1998 after the plant was decommissioned […]
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Posted inBusiness
Facing decline of retail, Freeport turns to the arts as economic driver
Annual Fall Festival this weekend expected to draw 65,000 people to see the 150 featured artists.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Topsham reviews plans for new coffee shop, 16-lot subdivision
Portland-based Aroma Joe’s Coffee is eyeing 1 Second St. for new drive-through store.
Posted inNation / World, News
Memories of 9/11 and its lessons of love
On the 18th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, think about how far we’ve come.
Posted inNews
No tuition increase at Maine’s community colleges this fall
AUGUSTA — Tuition at Maine’s seven community colleges is unchanged this fall, part of an ongoing commitment to keep student costs as low as possible. Tuition for Maine students remains at $94 a credit hour. For a full-time student taking 30 credits, the annual cost of tuition and fees will average $3,620, the lowest in […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Balloon festival gets off to soggy start in Lewiston
Balloons were grounded both morning and evening on the first day of the Great Falls Balloon Festival.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, News
Durham boys survive canoe capsizing, thanks to life jackets
DURHAM — The Durham fire and rescue officials say life jackets helped save the lives of two Durham boys whose canoe capsized on Runaround Pond Saturday morning. Durham firefighters were called to the pond shortly after 11 a.m. for the overturned canoe. They didn’t know how many people had been in the canoe at the […]
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Maine governor praises federal plan for prescription drugs
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills says Maine is ready to take advantage of a Trump administration proposal that would allow Americans to legally and safely import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada