Today is Tuesday. Temperatures will be in the mid-40s to mid-50s, from north to south with partly sunny or mostly cloudy skies throughout the state and a chance for scattered showers. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
Workloads are likely to increase for employees that remain and potentially longer wait times loom as agencies prepare to cover for one another more frequently.
The city’s homelessness problem was the most prevalent in Bangor Daily News interviews with the candidates. Some have centered their campaign on the subject.
“Hopeful,” a colorful metal sign studded with lightbulbs, will be installed on the north-facing side of 152 Main St. in downtown Bangor in late November, pending final approval by the Bangor City Council at its meeting next week.
Benjamin Conroy, 32, was employed in Regional School Unit 22 at the Leroy H. Smith School in Winterport as an ed tech from fall 2014 to August 2016, according to Assistant Superintendent Christine Boone.
After 8 years, Orono’s police chief is set to leave the department in November, a shakeup that has implications for the entire town’s public safety structure.
Ben Guite, who was a key player on the University of Maine’s second and last NCAA title team in 1998-99, is making his debut as head coach of the Mariners after eight seasons as an assistant and then associate head coach for the Black Bears.