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Despite pandemic challenges, Thomas College’s 2020 grads employed and making impact in central Maine
Of Thomas College s 238 graduates in the Class of 2020, 88% are employed despite a changing job market.
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Paige Costa, a 2020 graduate of Thomas College, is the co-owner and co-founder of North Star Apothecary in Fairfield. Costa was serving medicinal marijuana patients at the business recently.
Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Less than a month after graduating from Thomas College last May, Paige Costa opened her first retail storefront.
Costa, 21, is the co-founder and managing partner at North Star Apothecary, a small-batch, artisanal medical cannabis dispensary on U.S. Route 201 in Fairfield. The brightly lit 400-square-foot space is the first retail lens of her family’s North Star Farm.
Augusta PD Earns Accreditation Honor
Congratulations to the Augusta Police Department for being one of only eight departments in the State of Maine to be awarded accreditation by the Maine Law Enforcement Accreditation Program.
According to WABI, departments statewide have access to prove compliance with the best practice and standards for Maine law enforcement agencies.
Augusta s Police Chief, Jared Mills had to put forth much hard work to earn the accreditation. The department as a whole had to earn 162 standards to be awarded the accreditation.
”We’ve spent almost three years now getting this together. The evidence room was the big thing we had to tackle and that took some time, But, I have a dedicated staff. Hard work brought us together and it’s just really great all the way around.”
A three-year journey to find a site for a new station for the Augusta Police Department has finally reached its goal as the city council considers a $20.47 million, 30-year bond to cover the cost of building a station on a former supermarket site near downtown.
The police department is now housed in a former U.S. Navy Reserve building at the bottom of Capitol Park at the south end of the city. The new station would be built on a 2.29-acre lot at 7 Willow St., adjacent to the historic building that housed the department for 102 years, until 1998.
The 21,747-square-foot former grocery store is listed by NAI The Dunham Group for $2.2 million. It is owned by JOFKAM Co., and has been leased as a supermarket since 1962, most recently to Hannaford. The proposal is to buy the property for its assessed value of around $1.8 million.
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