The executive director of Maine Community Integration in Lewiston suffered multiple gunshots at an airport.
Vanessa Paolella
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Vanessa Paolella is a staff writer at the Sun Journal primarily covering local education. Before joining the Sun Journal in 2021, she interned for the paper twice and led the Bates College student newspaper, The Bates Student. Vanessa graduated from Bates College with a bachelor of science in geology in 2021 and wrote her senior thesis on water quality changes in the Androscoggin River from 1930 to 2019.
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Fowsia Musse’s family race to bring her back to U.S. for emergency medical treatment
Doctors say the executive director of Maine Community integration, who was shot in Ethiopia, has less than 48 hours before they may need to amputate her leg.
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Deadline to apply for $850 state relief checks is Monday
Seniors receiving Social Security and others who do not typically file tax returns will need to file a 2021 Maine tax return by Monday to receive their check.
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Lewiston-Auburn community leader shot in Ethiopia
Fowsia Musse, the executive director of Maine Community Integration, was shot Tuesday by a law enforcement officer at an airport in Ethiopia.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, News, Schools & Education
New Lisbon town manager ‘down to Earth,’ ‘transparent’
Glenn Michalowski, has held numerous roles in municipal government, including a recent three-year tenure as the assistant town manager in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, News, Schools & Education
Error on Lisbon ballots alters School Committee elections
Officials discovered there are only two three-year terms, not three as stated on the ballot.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine, News
From drive-through mill town to downtown destination, Lisbon looks to reinvent itself
Lisbon Falls was built on the success of the Worumbo Mill. But now, the riverside site on which the mill once stood may once again become the economic pillar of the community.
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Sun Journal Executive Editor Judith Meyer enters Hall of Fame
On Saturday, Meyer was ceremonially inducted into the Maine Press Association’s Hall of Fame in recognition of her advocacy for government transparency, her leadership of newspapers in central and western Maine, and her door-knocking, cold-calling brand of journalism.
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‘More than a free college program’: CMCC hits record enrollment with boost from state scholarship
The state community college system argues that the scholarship has helped encourage pandemic-era graduates to attend college and reengage men in post-secondary education.
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SHARECenter receives approval to sign lease agreement, add fiscal partner
The School Committee additionally took their final vote on a set of goals and heard from the Jobs for Maine Graduates program.