Opening day at Royal River Orchards in New Gloucester brought apples, cider, pumpkins and doughnuts as the fall season kicks off.
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Mainer’s affinity app to connect families, businesses to launch in mid-August
Match2Play was created by Sara Lopez, a mother of four boys who was inspired by her own struggle to find other families to connect with after moving to Maine four years ago.
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Maine lawmakers take a step closer to offering pre-kindergarten programs statewide
The bill directs the Department of Education to set standards for pre-kindergarten programs, but school districts will be given until the 2023-24 to start.
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Trump, GOP to huddle as outrage builds over border policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched on Tuesday for ways to end the administration’s policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, ahead of a visit from President Donald Trump to discuss broader immigration legislation. Top conservatives, including key Trump allies, announced they were introducing bills to stop the practice amid a […]
Posted inConnections, Lewiston-Auburn
Dempsey Center to note anniversary, hold free classes
LEWISTON — The Dempsey Center, 29 Lowell St., fifth floor, has announced free April programs. The center will hold a 10th anniversary open house from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 7. There will be free workshops, tours and a chance to talk with staff and volunteers to learn more about programs and services. […]
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Susan Collins seeks to help grandparents raising their grandchildren
AUGUSTA — One of the many fallouts from the opioid epidemic is that thousands of children are winding up in the care of grandparents, including many in Maine. With parents in prison, strung out or dead, these youngsters are among the 2.7 million nationally who count on grandparents to raise them, sometimes on limited incomes […]
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Making accommodations for blended families
Blended families are not uncommon these days. A bride and groom may have more than two sets of parents to accommodate in their wedding. If the parents do not know each other, as is the case with most in-laws, or are uncomfortable with each other, as is sometimes the case with adoptions and remarriages, accommodating […]
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Maine parents raising children as costs rise but incomes don’t
PORTLAND — The cost of raising children is growing faster than parents’ abilities to pay it, a trend that’s placing more Maine youths in poverty and potentially leaving the next generation at a disadvantage as it inherits the state. “It just gets more expensive,” said Sarah Krajewski, a mother of three who lives in Bath. […]
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Freedom Salute for 488th Military Police Company honors families
AUGUSTA — Carolyn Knights of Oxford was outside the Augusta Civic Center on Sunday morning awaiting the start of the Freedom Salute for the 488th Military Police Company, who returned to Maine on June 15 from a year-long deployment. “You don’t want to interview me. I’m just a grandmother,” she said before breaking into tears […]