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1 day ago | centralmaine.com | Alex Lear

Every summer, Tara McDonough makes a plan. For more than a decade, McDonough has been involved in one way or another with PortFringe, an annual theater festival that pushes the boundaries of performing arts. This year, the program will include more than a dozen shows across four venues in a little more than a week. McDonough is on the planning committee, but she usually has to get organized to make sure she sees everything she wants to see during the whirlwind.

1 day ago | centralmaine.com | Alex Lear

Maine immigration officials have joined a chorus of advocates across the country expressing confusion and frustration over this week’s arrival of dozens of white South African refugees. The Trump administration – which instituted a broad freeze on refugee resettlement and foreign aid in January – has argued that Afrikaners, South Africa’s white ethnic minority that established and enforced apartheid, are now facing discrimination in the post-apartheid era.

1 day ago | centralmaine.com | Alex Lear

AUGUSTA — The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians has returned a representative to the Maine House of Representatives for the first time since 2018, a sign of improved relations between the state and the Wabanaki tribes. Brian Reynolds, the tribal administrator for nearly two decades, was sworn into office on Wednesday by Gov. Janet Mills for a term that will end on Oct. 31, 2026, filling the second of three House seats reserved for tribal members.

2 days ago | centralmaine.com | Alex Lear

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2 days ago | centralmaine.com | Jessica Lowell

WINSLOW — Town councilors Jeff West and Dale Macklin resigned from their seats this week, citing negative behavior from other councilors. West’s chair was empty at the start of the council meeting Monday night at the Winslow Public Library, where about two dozen town residents were in the audience. He had resigned earlier that afternoon and requested that his resignation letter be read at the meeting.