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Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill late last year that would allow state and local authorities to arrest people who they believe are suspicious of crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally. The bill is still on hold due to a legal back and forth between courts. SB 4 would make unauthorized border crossing a state crime....
Read Article Joleen Bedard, United Way of Androscoggin County executive director (left), presents a $6,500 check to Karen Eastman, Servant’s Heart Food Pantry director (left). Submitted photo LEWISTON — United Way of Androscoggin County, which serves both Androscoggin and Oxford counties, recently wrapped up a successful Day of Giving donation campaign to benefit area food pantries. The goal of the campaign was to raise $10,000 to help rural food pantries purchase food to help meet the increased needs in the communities they serve. Donations to the campaign were matched with a separate...
Updated: Tue, Jan 5, 2021, 11:29 am In many ways, 2020 was a year made infamous by its relentless awfulness. It threw at us a global pandemic and widespread economic devastation, new police killings of unarmed Black people and some of the largest wildfires ever recorded in the Western U.S. People struggled to adapt to new routines wrought by unprecedented shelter-in-place orders enacted in mid-March and lasting months, learning how to work, study, play and grow one homebound day at a time – all while a highly infectious new virus sickened and killed people at alarming rates, hitting seniors...