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  • Bill will give Maine school employees suicide-prevention training

    Gov. Paul LePage on Tuesday signed a bipartisan bill that will require public school personnel to receive training in suicide prevention and awareness. The measure was sponsored by Rep. Paul Gilbert, D-Jay, and co-sponsored a broad contingent of lawmakers. It passed unanimously in the Legislature. LePage announced Tuesday that he would use $44,000 from his contingency account to support ...

  • Suspect arrested as Maine teen mourned

    Select images available for purchase in theMaine Today Photo Store Their fear turned to anguish Tuesday when Maine State Police announced they had charged a 20-year-old Orono man with her murder. Kyle Dube's arrest came a day after a game warden with a search dog found the remains of a female believed to be Cable, in woods along the Stillwater River, just off Route 43 in Old Town. Dube, who ...

  • Decision postponed on rules for Maine’s eel fishery

    After a daylong discussion, the eel management board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided Tuesday to delay the vote until August to gather more information about baby glass eels, known as elvers. Options under consideration include keeping the status quo, establishing quotas, or shutting the fishery ...

  • Maine educators object to evaluation emphasis

    Maine Education Association representatives said those measures should count no more than 10 percent, while the Maine School Boards Association and the Maine School Superintendents Association recommended a floor of 15 percent, with the ceiling to be determined locally. Much remains to be determined in the state framework for educators' evaluations and the systems that school districts must ...

  • Maine Senate passes work-force bill but budget committee must fund it

    - The Maine Senate advanced a bill aimed at addressing the state’s so-called "skills gap" on Monday, but it faces a hurdle before passage because of its ...


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Movie Review

Marvin's Room

"Marvin's Room" is about people who should be close, but aren't. The movie's central relationships are both characterized by physical and emotional distance: a pair of estranged sisters who haven't heard from each other in twenty years, and a mother/son relationship that is strained to the point of breaking. The sisters are Bessie (Diane Keaton) and Lee (Meryl Streep). Twenty years ago, their fath ... ...

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  • House approves Maine hospital debt repayment

    AUGUSTA, Maine -- The Maine House has approved a bill that would pay off Maine's $484 million debt to the state's hospitals, agreeing to go along with a Democrat-backed amendment calling for the state to accept federal money to expand Medicaid to roughly 70,000 people.After a debate that went on for about four hours, the bill won approval by an 87-57 vote Tuesday night. The vote ...

  • Maines elver industry could be shut down in August

    – An interstate fisheries commission postponed a decision Tuesday on whether to scale back or even shut down the highly profitable baby eel fishery in Maine and South Carolina after members decided they needed more time to weigh ...

  • Maine gov. signs suicide prevention education bill

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Gov. Paul R. LePage has signed a bill into law that will make sure staff at Maine schools are trained in suicide education and ...

  • Regulators postpone vote on Maines eel fishery

    After a daylong discussion, the eel management board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided Tuesday to delay the vote until August to gather more information about baby glass eels, known as elvers. Options under consideration include keeping the status quo, establishing quotas or shutting the fishery ...

  • NY investment firms buy northern Maine paper company

    jhall@pressherald.com Staff Writer Two New York-based private investment firms agreed to buy a controlling interest in Twin Rivers Paper Co. Inc. for an undisclosed price. Blue Wolf Capital Partners and Atlas Holdings said they have track records of working with forest products companies in North America. They agreed to acquire the controlling stake from Brookfield Asset Management Inc. The ...

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