The total funding, awarded to Maine Technology Institute and FocusMaine, is for $2.5 million over the next three years and includes the $2 million Economic Development Administration grant, plus a match of $500,000.
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Posted inThe Forecaster
Midcoast Meetings: April 17-24
Editor’s note: Due to closures and cancellations prompted by the COVID-19 coronavirus, readers should call ahead to see if meetings listed are still being held.
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Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
The Universal Notebook: Trump virus
America is suffering from a sickness that has the potential to forever change the way we live. No, I’m not talking about the coronavirus. That’s a natural occurrence. I’m talking about the Trump virus. That’s not. Watching the nightly pandemic briefings on television I get the sense that there is a huge and potentially fatal […]
Posted inTimes Record
Local performance organizations make difficult decisions for upcoming seasons
Bowdoin International Music Festival canceled the upcoming season, but will share some of the usual content online, while Maine State Music Theatre is holding out hope for the summer’s shows.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Coastal Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
‘The best we can do right now’: Maine special education programs adapt to limits caused by home schooling
Programming continues amid the coronavirus pandemic, but reduced daily structure and social interactions bring challenges, parents and administrators say.
Posted inTimes Record
Brunswick’s asylum seekers healthy amid pandemic, but impact on immigration process is unknown
According to cultural broker Nsiona Nguizani, the families are practicing social distancing, but have been retraumatized by the coronavirus pandemic. He is their only ‘outside’ person.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: It’s time to start a U.S. Health Corps
Built on a national service model, the program would address looming health care shortages while preparing for the inevitable next pandemic.
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Letter: Have we all lost our moral compass?
The U.S. has seen almost 10,000 deaths to date from the COVID-19 virus (250,000-plus sick), the virus the president – Donald Trump – called a hoax. A virus that would simply disappear and was perpetrated by the Democratic Party in the first place, per the president. Not to worry! That hoax that has crippled our […]
Posted inCoastal Journal
Midcoast People & Business: April 10
Bowdoin College upgrade cited in national engineering competition CHA Consulting, Inc. of Albany, New York, has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ 53rd annual Engineering Excellence Awards for designing the renovation of the Whittier Field Athletic Complex at Bowdoin College. The initial phase replaced the […]
Posted inTimes Record
Local mall owners showing leniency on rent as businesses wonder how to get through
Many stores at Brunswick, Topsham strip malls are closed, while others are adjusting to a new normal.