The Totally Trades workshop hosted by New Ventures Maine at the Foster Career and Technical Education Center on the Mt. Blue campus gave young women a chance to experience non-traditional careers for women that pay well and are in high demand.
Marla Hoffman
Staff Writer
Marla has been a journalist for the past 17-plus years at newspapers in Maine and Connecticut. She has been a writer, a designer, a photographer, a columnist and, for the past six years, the managing editor for the evening shift at the Sun Journal.
Brunswick continuing adjustments for asylum seekers
Town spending nearly $200,000 to address adequate staffing at schools, and finding ways to assist families with laundry and transportation needs.
Maine Yankee to issue update on Wiscasset nuclear waste
WISCASSET — The Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel on Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage will meet Tuesday to update Wiscasset residents on the status of the 64 containers of nuclear waste stored at the former Maine Yankee power plant site. The federal government was contractually obligated to remove the radioactive waste by 1998 after the plant was decommissioned […]
Facing decline of retail, Freeport turns to the arts as economic driver
Annual Fall Festival this weekend expected to draw 65,000 people to see the 150 featured artists.
Topsham reviews plans for new coffee shop, 16-lot subdivision
Portland-based Aroma Joe’s Coffee is eyeing 1 Second St. for new drive-through store.
Memories of 9/11 and its lessons of love
On the 18th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, think about how far we’ve come.
No tuition increase at Maine’s community colleges this fall
AUGUSTA — Tuition at Maine’s seven community colleges is unchanged this fall, part of an ongoing commitment to keep student costs as low as possible. Tuition for Maine students remains at $94 a credit hour. For a full-time student taking 30 credits, the annual cost of tuition and fees will average $3,620, the lowest in […]
Balloon festival gets off to soggy start in Lewiston
Balloons were grounded both morning and evening on the first day of the Great Falls Balloon Festival.
Durham boys survive canoe capsizing, thanks to life jackets
DURHAM — The Durham fire and rescue officials say life jackets helped save the lives of two Durham boys whose canoe capsized on Runaround Pond Saturday morning. Durham firefighters were called to the pond shortly after 11 a.m. for the overturned canoe. They didn’t know how many people had been in the canoe at the […]