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PASSADUMKEAG – Graduates of Maine’s only college training program for operators of mechanized logging and forest trucking equipment were recognized Nov. 9 at the site where they have spent recent weeks completing the final, trucking stage of the program after months harvesting timber using sophisticated state-of-the-art machines like those they will encounter in the logging industry.

Maine has lost more than 20,000 employees since the pandemic started. Fixing this will take a combination of strategies and years of work.

Maine has lost more than 20,000 employees since the pandemic started. Fixing this will take a combination of strategies and years of work.

Maine has lost more than 20,000 employees since the pandemic started. Fixing this will take a combination of strategies and years of work.

Community colleges around the country are expanding short-term workforce training programs hoping to make a dent in the national workforce shortage and provide low-barrier opportunities for economic mobility.

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A new $21 million program, Healthcare Training for ME, expands availability of free and low-cost career training for health care workers and employers Governor Janet Mills today announced the launch of Healthcare Training for ME, an initiative of her Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan to strengthen Maine’s healthcare workforce by expanding availability of free and low-cost career training to help healthcare workers advance their careers, support workforce training needs of healthcare employers, an...

People work in a call center of Covidom, a new remote medical monitoring app, inside the Paris public hospitals Campus Picpus last month. As the pandemic has forced millions of people to work from home over the past year, the Maine Community College System is launching a program to specifically train rural Maine workers for remote jobs. The system will train about 700 rural Maine residents beginning next year for remote work jobs, such as those in medical transcription and IT support. Dan Belye...

Laid-off workers from Jay mill can go to college for free 177 ex-employees are eligible for retraining at two area community colleges. Share A massive explosion at the Androscoggin Mill in April 2020 left the paper mill unable to produce pulp, which it requires to make paper. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Workers who lost their jobs after the explosion at the paper mill in Jay last spring can enroll for free at two nearby community colleges to help them find new jobs. Pixelle Specialty Solutio...

Share A massive explosion at the Androscoggin Mill in April 2020 left the paper mill unable to produce pulp, which it requires to make paper. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Workers who lost their jobs after the explosion at the paper mill in Jay last spring can enroll for free at two nearby community colleges to help them find new jobs. Pixelle Specialty Solutions, the mill owner, and the Maine Community College System announced Friday that 177 displaced workers have until next July to access th...