The RSU 9 board voted Aug. 12 to set stipends for meetings and named Wayne Kenney as alternate delegate to the Maine School Boards Association.
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Does Maine require a two-thirds majority to redraw congressional districts? | Fact brief
Redistricting has become a hot political issue nationally as Texas Republicans move to redraw the state’s map in the hopes of picking up more U.S. House seats.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Lisbon man sentenced to 3 years for stealing from site of quadruple homicide in Bowdoin
Arden Shaw pleaded guilty to stealing U.S. Border Patrol equipment from the home where a quadruple homicide occurred. He was sentenced in federal court Tuesday.
Posted inMaine, News
Police searching for missing Brunswick woman
Rebecca Dorr was last seen near the Botany Place neighborhood on Monday.
Posted inMaine, Schools & Education, The Franklin Journal
Farmington-based school district accepts police cruiser for Foster Tech
Regional School Unit 9 is still struggling with staffing needs related to class size and drawing candidates for certain positions.
Posted inMaine, News
Missing Gardiner woman, 91, safely located by Rangeley police
Local police were working Tuesday night to get Sylvia Pratt back to her home, state police said.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Civil rights groups file in court raising alarm over settlement changes for disabled children’s services
The group, including Disability Rights Maine and the ACLU, contend enforcement of the settlement is being weakened.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools & Education, The Bethel Citizen
Telstar school board voices opposition to limiting political groups’ access to school facilities
Board members spoke in favor of an open and fair policy, with Telstar Principal John Eliot saying, ‘All are welcome here, that’s our motto and we’re going to go with it.’
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Leroy J. Bailey, veteran gravely wounded in Vietnam, laid to rest back home in Maine
The Rockland native lost his face to a mortar blast and underwent hundreds of reconstructive surgeries throughout his life, but remained kind, generous and faithful.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Auburn man sentenced to 56 years for kidnapping of teen, sexual assaults
One veteran investigator deemed the 2022 kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl one of the most disturbing cases he’d ever worked on.