Ashley Jardine, a 2020 CMCC graduate, feels overwhelmed by the pandemic and misses her family and friends, but is grateful she is healthy and her father is improving after his three-week fight against the virus last spring.
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Posted inNation & World
Kennedy cousin Skakel won’t be retried in 1975 killing
At the time of the slaying, Michael Skakel was a student at The Elan School in Maine, and classmates had testified at his trial that he confessed to them about the killing.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
Appeals court sides with lower court in dismissing drowning lawsuit
A 13-year-old Lewiston boy was on a school field trip at Range Pond when he disappeared under the water and died.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, News
Nursing student survives emotional toll of COVID-19
Ashley Jardine of Poland struggled to complete nursing school at CMCC while her father was in a medically-induced coma during treatment for COVID-19.
Posted inLakes Region Weekly, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State
A bipartisan plea to reopen Poland, New Gloucester and other rural towns
Democoratic state Sen. Ned Claxton and Republican state Rep. Amy Arata teamed up Tuesday to make the case for the state to lessen COVID-19 restrictions in more places.
Posted inBusiness, News
Loggers, truckers uncertain about future after Jay mill explosion
The loss of the pulp operation directly impacts between 254 to 382 logging/trucking jobs, the head of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine said.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Poland farmer and surgeon called to duty during pandemic
Plastic surgeon Dr. Charles Foley expects to be caring for COVID-19 patients as part of his U.S. Army Reserve unit.
Posted inCops & Courts, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Judge puts Poland man on probation in ‘rare’ drug case
PORTLAND — A Poland man thanked the state trooper Tuesday who arrested him on the Maine Turnpike in January for having 28 grams of fentanyl. Travis Rainer, 48, told a U.S. District Court judge the trooper who pulled him over in Wells for following a truck too closely “saved my life.” Since his arrest on […]
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Maine Cannabis Report
The race is on for recreational marijuana licenses in Maine
The state will publish application forms this week; on the municipal level, the process is already well underway.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Schools and Education
RSU 16, Poland day care, state to share cost of $13,000 bus stop sign
Jan Jordan will get a flashing sign. RSU 16 will get help paying for it.