The Saturday rally was held a half hour after the presidential election was called for Joe Biden.
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Posted inElection 2020, Local & State, Politics
Augusta-area voters, not deterred by pandemic, line up to vote
Despite what is expected to be a record-breaking number of people voting by absentee before the election, numerous central Maine residents voting in person at the polls on Election Day.
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MaineHousing extends rent relief program
The agency says it has about $4 million left to help tenants adversely impacted by COVID-19 pay their rent in October and November.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Indictments handed up for drug trafficking in Augusta, Gardiner, Waterville
Police searches turned up drugs and guns, leading to arrests of New Yorkers, as well as those from central Maine.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Sidney man seeks to have key digital evidence thrown out in retrial of child sexual assault charges
Eric Bard was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison for gross sexual assault but had that conviction overturned by the state’s highest court, and is now disputing that authorities had proper consent to obtain evidence from his family home.
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Video: Anti-mask group gathers outside CDC offices in downtown Augusta
About 50 people assembled in the rain Tuesday to decry mask-wearing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Reading the wild food forager’s calendar in Augusta
At the Maine Primitive Skills School, students learn about the edible plants that nature has to offer, and find ways to develop nature literacy.
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Ginsburg remembered, heralded at Augusta vigil
Speakers included state Sen. Shenna Bellows D-Manchester, executive director of the The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Augusta; state Sen. Cathy Breen, D-Falmouth; Maeghan Maloney, district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties; and activist Betsy Sweet.
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Maine, union officials issue warning on failure to pass federal COVID-19 aid package
With no agreement on additional federal aid in the offing, Maine and union officials representing public employees say failure to reach agreement will endanger their ability to provide critical public services.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Pandemic, shortage of judges, and social distancing slow wheels of justice
Augusta’s Capital Judicial Center the site of the state’s first trial since the coronavirus pandemic halted trials in March.