PORTLAND, Maine — University of Southern Maine faculty members are preparing to take a more active role in addressing a $14 million budget shortfall that the university must resolve before the end of May after USM President Theodora Kalikow announced Friday that faculty layoffs would be reversed. Kalikow surprised faculty and students at a Faculty […]
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LePage indicates opposition to $30 million budget patch, threatens to keep lawmakers in Augusta
“If they try to do what they’ve done for the last three years, they will be here until Election Day because I will call them back every day to fill the hole in the budget,” said LePage during a press conference on Wednesday. “They are playing games.” Though LePage was not specific about his opposition […]
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Lewiston’s Martel Elementary wins state approval for construction money
LEWISTON — The Maine State Board of Education on Wednesday approved replacing the old, overcrowded but beloved Martel Elementary School. With the city’s enrollment growing by more than 100 students a year, Superintendent Bill Webster said it’s great news. It means planning for a new school — where it will be located and how many […]
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Rumford Finance Committee approves library, assessor and tax collector budgets
RUMFORD — The Finance Committee unanimously voted Wednesday to approve the $226,389 budget request for the Rumford Public Library. Library director Luke Sorenson said the amount is slightly more than the $225,000 approved in 2013. The only major increase is a 2.5 percent wage increase. “Many of the line items on the budget are actually […]
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Lawmakers vote to bridge $30 million deficit, end ‘wait lists’ just before dawn
AUGUSTA — In a unanimous vote early Wednesday, state lawmakers approved a funding plan to end controversial “wait lists” that have prevented Mainers with developmental disabilities from receiving medical and other support services, in some cases for over two years. This decision was one of dozens of unanimous votes made by the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee […]
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Review to begin on proposed Livermore municipal budget
LIVERMORE — The Board of Selectpersons and Budget Committee will begin review of the proposed $1.3 million municipal budget for 2014-15 on Wednesday, April 9. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Office. The total spending plan is $74,173 more than this current $1.23 million budget. The net budget represents an increase […]
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UMaine relying more on lower-paid professors as budget shrinks
ORONO — Jason Canniff teaches 4½ college courses at the University of Maine: two freshman composition classes, one upper-level persuasive writing class and two courses in the honors college, one of which he co-teaches. Typically he works 60 hours a week instructing, grading papers and preparing lessons. This week he has set up individual conferences […]
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SAD 17 budget presented, includes money for four more teachers
HARRISON — SAD 17 Superintendent Rick Colpitts unveiled a proposed $37.65 million budget Monday night that includes $225,000 for four more teachers to reduce elementary class sizes. “It was not an easy budget to put together,” Colpitts told directors meeting at the Harrison Elementary School. The budget for 2014-15 is 4.75 percent more than this […]
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Otisfield seeks to restart school budget meetings
OTISFIELD — Selectmen will ask SAD 17 directors Thomas Moore Jr. and Joseph Vaillancourt to meet with them next month to discuss the proposed 2014-15 school budget. The board said at its Wednesday night meeting that such meetings used to be routine and it would like to reinstate them. “Our school budget is less than […]
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Poland voters approve larger budget, reject ordinance changes
POLAND — Voters at Saturday’s annual town meeting approved a municipal budget that will add about $107,000 to what they will have to raise through their property taxes, but rejected several changes to the town’s land-use ordinance that they perceived as detrimental to the character of the town. Several residents spoke out against changes to […]