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Good Shepherd Food Bank President Heather Paquette says that's an increase of 41,000 residents since 2022.
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Yibin Zhao, 55, was at the home on Mercer Road. He was arrested and charged with Cultivation of Marijuana and Trafficking in Scheduled Drugs.
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Residents will vote Saturday on an ordinance drafted by high school students, local restaurants and environmental advocates.
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Bookings are already up 15% as the international CAT ferry service between Bar Harbor, Maine and Yarmouth, Novia Scotia begins another season.
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State lawmakers had attempted to push back the referendum until 2026 to allow a special commission to come up with an alternative design. But the bill to delay the vote fell victim to late-session tensions with Gov. Janet Mills.
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If approved, the federal grant would cover about two-thirds of the nearly $760 million that the state of Maine estimates it will need to build the port and a heavy-lift semi-submersible barge that's needed to launch the floating wind turbine foundations.
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Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
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An art installation called The Portal was shut down this week in New York and Dublin because of rude gestures and other bad public behavior, as NPR's Scott Simon explains.
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Since the pandemic, chronic absenteeism in the nation's K-12 schools has skyrocketed. These teens are working to get their attendance back on track.
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At the height of the racial reckoning, a school district in Virginia voted to rename two schools that had been previously named for Confederate generals. This month, that decision was reversed.
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Students arrested at Columbia University and the City College of New York spoke with NPR about their choice to risk legal and academic consequences.
Monday—How the statewide housing crisis is affecting rural communities, and what small towns are doing to find solutions ( part of "Cost of Living: Maine's Housing Shortage series)
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