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In an advisory vote, town residents on Saturday rejected a proposal to increase the town's minimum lot size to 3 acres, but they remain concerned about West Gardiner's fast rate of growth.
Video: Whitefield Elementary School wins Maine DOE cooking competition Regional School Unit 12 students beat South Portland in the final competition of the Maine Department of Education's 2021 Farm to School Cook-off. 5 of 5 Whitefield Elementary student Kiara Luce adds ingredients to a food processor during a cooking contest Wednesday in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal AUGUSTA — Kiara Luce’s concentration couldn’t be broken as she bounced around from table, to fridge, to her cooking partner, Vicki Dill, as she prepared a blueberry smoothie. As part of the Maine Department of Educa...
Maine State Prison in Warren in 2013. Maine lawmakers are considering reestablishing parole 45 years after it was abolished as truth-in-sentencing laws swept the country. The laws were intended to reassure the public that violent offenders would remain behind bars. But times have changed. Maine is now the only state in New England without parole. Factor in the state's low crime rate and the push for criminal justice reform and even some former opponents say they are warming up to the idea — although powerful opponents remain. Maine is one 16 states that abolished or severely restricted par...