AUGUSTA, Maine, May 3 -- The Maine Department of Education issued the following news release: The Maine Department of Education (DOE) announced grants for 30 additional Maine schools to implement the Building Assets Reducing Risks (BARR) model to increase academic achievement, engagement, and student and staff wellbeing. These new grants build on the Maine DOE's initial BARR investment last summer, with nearly 100 schools now implementing BARR across the state. BARR offers schools a framework  more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, May 3 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news on May 2, 2024: Governor Janet Mills today celebrated the upcoming opening of Milestone Recovery's expanded substance use disorder treatment program in Portland. The new facility, expected to open later this month, will nearly double the number of beds in the Portland nonprofit's Medically-Monitored Withdrawal (detox) program for substance use disorders, greatly expanding access for uninsured and underinsured Maine p more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, May 3 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news on May 2, 2024: Governor Janet Mills today formally requested that President Joe Biden issue a Major Disaster Declaration (https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/sites/maine.gov.governor.mills/files/inline-files/OMB%20Control%20No.%201660-0009%20FEMA%20Form%20010-013.pdf) to help Cumberland and York Counties recover from the severe April Nor'easter that resulted in significant infrastructure damage across southern Maine more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, May 3 -- The Maine House Democrats issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: Rep. Nina Milliken, D-Blue Hill, earned the National Sexual Violence Resource Center's (NSVRC) 2024 Visionary Voice Award. The Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault presented Milliken with the award at a ceremony on April 30 at the University of Maine at Augusta. The Visionary Voice Awards are presented annually by the NSVRC, the leading nonprofit in providing information and tools to prevent  more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, May 2 -- The Maine Public Utilities Commission issued the following order (No. 2023-00015) on May 1, 2024: * * * PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, Investigation of Gas Resource Procurement And Management Practices of Summit Natural Gas of Maine and Maine Natural Gas Corporation (35-A M.R.S. Sec. 1303(1)(C)) ORDER CLOSING AUDIT INVESTIGATION OF SUMMIT NATURAL GAS OF MAINE AND MAINE NATURAL GAS CORPORATION AND DIRECTING REPORTING BARTLETT, Chairman; SCULLY and GILBERT, Commissioner more PR

BOURBONNAIS, Illinois, May 3 (TNSres) -- Olivet Nazarene University issued the following news: By Steve Case Olivet students and professors had a second chance at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in April when the moon's shadow swept across the United States, causing a total solar eclipse viewed by millions. The path of totality on April 8 stretched from Maine to Texas and was the second total solar eclipse visible from the continental United States in the past decade. Students from the Earth  more PR

ORONO, Maine, May 3 -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: In the fall, students enrolled in the course "Introduction to Anthropology: Human Origins and Prehistory" will be taught by a world-renowned archaeologist who recently received one of the highest honors a scientist can achieve. Longtime University of Maine professor Daniel H. Sandweiss was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on April 30. Membership to the organization of leading researchers recogni more PR