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The bilingual child care center in Millbridge is set to expand, thanks to $831,000 in federal funding announced Monday.
Once the website was up with class offerings, the owner of Handful Studios immediately started to field emails from people who wanted to sign up.
Thomas College has been awarded a $1 million grant for a project to boost science instruction at the Waterville school.
The Portland Chamber's new WE Rock! Awards were created to honor female professionals who have made an impact on their community.
Sylvia Torti, a writer, ecologist and academic leader, will head the Bar Harbor liberal arts school. She will be the seventh president since College of the Atlantic was founded in 1969.
Funding will be used for the Teach Maine Center, a program focused on teacher recruitment and retention across the state.
The county’s labor force, business creation and consumer spending power have been bolstered by New Americans, the report by a Washington, D.C., nonprofit says.
The pandemic exposed a dire shortage in early childhood professionals in Maine. Sweatt-Winter serves as a lab school for UMF students majoring in early childhood education or early childhood special education.
Business owners throughout Maine have said they have jobs available but have difficulty finding qualified and trained workers.
Southern Maine Community College in South Portland received $1 million in congressionally directed spending to start a new mobile learning lab van for STEM training and $4.1 million to establish a health care simulation lab.
The final round came down to Jessica Estes, president of the Boulos Co., who was playing for Learning Works, and Jacqueline Edmondson, president of the University of Southern Maine, who was playing for the USM Scholarship Fund.
The first phase, soon to be completed, includes a center with an administrative wing, program staging area and new food pantry with more storage area and community space.
The traditional 'topping off' ceremony marked the addition of the last structural beam in the future Crewe Center for the Arts on the University of Southern Maine campus.
Central Maine Community College in Auburn has received a $3.3 million federal award to expand the school's health care training with a 7,200-square-foot addition to Kirk Hall.
New Ventures Maine has appointed Suzanne Senechal-Jandreau, who began with the education and economic development program in 1997, to the role of program director.
Graduate program enrollment reached 24 students, up from nine in pre-pandemic years. The lab winterized cottages and built a student housing unit to accommodate a growing residential population.