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Congratulations to Chuck Applebee, Director of Wastewater and Public Works, for being nominated to serve as the Maine State Director of the New England Water Environment Association. This highly sought after position represents Maine at the New England level regarding wastewater issues. The NEWA executive committee will vote in early September on Chuck’s nomination for this position, which would run through January 2013.
Lindsey who?! I’m sick of the news coverage being given to a spoiled 20 year old! Here are a few 20 year olds worth knowing about!
It is legal in Maine for qualified medical marijuana patients to grow their own medicine. And Attorney General Eric Holder has directed federal agents not to target patients and health care providers who are in compliance with state law.
To assist you with understanding what this means to you. Spectrum Generations Consumer Information Specialists have scheduled informational sessions across Central and Midcoast Maine at a Spectrum Generations Community Center near you to review the changes to Medicare.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C.S. Lewis
Museum in Bath is first New England organization named a Preserve America Steward. Maine Maritime Museum was honored recently when Mrs. Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, designated [...]
The U.S. Census Bureau is offering good-paying, part-time jobs to qualified applicants. To schedule an appointment to take an employment test and submit an application, call 1-866-861-2010. TTY Callers: Please [...]
Parkinson’s Disease, Two Other Illnesses Recognized WASHINGTON – Relying on an independent study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki decided to establish a [...]
INSPIRED by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behavior … Harvard University researchers recently got a $10 million grant to create a colony of flying robotic bees. [...]
Spectrum Generations will be hosting a free Benefits Check-up at its Muskie Center in Waterville on October 20th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Benefits Specialists will be on [...]
President Obama is holding a live strategy meeting on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time for all Organizing for America supporters. I hope you can join us, online or by [...]
Mitch Stewart from Organizing for America (OFA) said in a recent press release that, throughout August, members of Congress will be back in their hometowns. He claims that Insurance companies [...]
What follows should be a paid advertisement but at The Valley Voice we don’t know who to send the bill to. Therefore, this time, we will print it for free. [...]
A veteran Bureau of Parks and Lands staffer has been appointed the first superintendent of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Matt LaRoche, Penobscot River Corridor park manager and AWW acting manager, [...]