Several Maine colleges, including the University of New England, University of Southern Maine, Bowdoin, Southern Maine Community College and Saint Joseph’s, are requiring students to be vaccinated.
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SAD 51 prepares for full in-person instruction in the fall
To accommodate five days a week of in-person instruction, more teachers have been hired and modular classrooms have been added to Mabel Wilson School and Greely Middle School.
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Lobster Week: Up close and personal with Maine’s famed crustacean
There are a dozen companies in the state, including two in Portland, that offer tours that allow the public an opportunity to try their hand at lobstering.
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50-unit condo building approved in Cumberland
The five-story building, a large and different type of project for Cumberland, according to the town planner, will be built off Route 1.
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Cremation garden grows at Yarmouth’s Riverside Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery is expanding the area to provide more options to honor the deceased.
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North Yarmouth town manager resigns
Rosemary Roy had been on paid leave since a contentious Select Board meeting in April.
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Cumberland considers moratorium on medical marijuana caregiver licenses
A six-month ban on new licensing will give the town a chance to figure out the extent of the caregiver business in town and consider changes to ordinances.
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Yarmouth on board with 26-mile rail trail
Falmouth, North Yarmouth, Freeport and Cumberland are set to vote soon on whether to lend their support to the study of a pedestrian-bike pathway from Portland to Auburn.
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Freeport Community Services goes in-house for new director
Sarah Lundin, who has been with the organization for the past six years, has been selected to lead FCS.
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Free school meals in Maine will end stigma, advocates say
Anna Korsen said the new state initiative, just the second in the nation, “has the potential to be the most important piece of child hunger policy” in the state.