The parent of a Woolwich Central School fifth grader asked the Regional School Unit 1 board to remove the puberty-focused book “It’s Perfectly Normal.”
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Midcoast towns get state grants to counter climate change
Bowdoinham is one of 53 towns across the state to receive a grant aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change on Maine communities.
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Phippsburg supports new grant proposal for Center Pond River fishway
The Center Pond River Herring Committee will take the next step with a grant proposal to rebuild the fishway connecting the pond with the lower Kennebec River for alewife migration.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
VFW offers scholarships for SAD 75, RSU 1 students, awards for teachers
Middle school and high school students and K-12 teachers in SAD 75 and RSU 1 have until Oct. 31 to enter contests for Veterans of Foreign Wars scholarships and Teacher of the Year awards. Middle school students can participate in the “Patriot’s Pen” essay contest by submitting a 300-400-word essay on the theme, “How are […]
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Shark filmed swimming off Hermit Island in Phippsburg
Marine scientists who viewed the video say it’s likely a blue shark, though one said it could be a thresher shark.
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Bath officials considering $100,000 donation for child care expansion at YMCA
The Bath Area Family YMCA has requested $30,000 contributions from West Bath, Arrowsic, Woolwich, Phippsburg and Georgetown for its $7.2 million project that would more than double its child care capacity.
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Advocates of public coastal access hold rally at Moody Beach in Wells
On Saturday, about 100 members of two groups, Our Maine Beaches and Free Moody Beach, participated in a rally that called attention to the longtime dispute over public use of Moody Beach.
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This family has had access to Popham Beach since the 1940s. Now their neighbors are suing them.
The Tappen family says they bought the rights to 3.5 acres of sandy beachfront on Popham Beach. The Hill family disagrees, saying it’s always been described as ‘common land’ in subdivision plans.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly, The Forecaster
Forum: One-size-fits-all corporate mentality a scourge on state
A century-old Midcoast Maine institution is quietly suffering from a hostile takeover. I have spent my past 12 summers, and as many long weekends as my work-from-home job allows, in Phippsburg, a town suspended in a bygone era, where time goes by a little slower than where I come from. Maybe it’s the early sunrises […]
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State board could soon determine future of burned Bath elementary school
Bath-area school officials prefer to build a new school that would combine students from the burned-down Dike Newell School and another elementary school.