Capital Area Technical Center lists February professionals of month

Eager to support local operations, Mainers brave the chill on Maine Maple Sunday

Maine Maple Sunday Weekend is an annual event, with sugarhouses across the state opening their doors for visitors to see the maple syrup-making process and taste the final products.

Hall-Dale 4th graders’ art on display in Augusta through April 22

Photos: Artist teaches ritual Ukrainian egg-decorating process

The Holocaust and Human Rights Center hosted 25 students for an egg-decorating class at the The Michael Klahr Center in Augusta. The class was led by Maine-based artist Lesia Sochor, a painter who practices the ancient ritual of transforming an ordinary egg into a "pysanka" by decorating it with ancient, often colorful designs steeped in symbolism. Sochor said that she learned to make them from her parents who fled Ukraine in the aftermath of World War II. Images are by Kennebec Journal staff photographer Joe Phelan.

Associations hold Youth Art Month celebration in Augusta

Twenty students from around the state were honored during the celebration.

Legislators tentatively OK probe into workplace culture at state fire marshal’s office

Complaints about the office surfaced when Deputy Fire Marshal Richard McCarthy was nominated to take over the agency last month.

Augusta program could be first in Maine to offer overdose victims medication on-scene to treat withdrawal symptoms

Plans to help Augusta residents recover from substance use disorder include a proposal to offer people revived from an overdose by rescue workers immediate, on-scene treatment with Suboxone and help accessing longer-term treatment.

University of Maine at Augusta announces four semifinalists for top administrative role

The candidates for president of the University of Maine at Augusta will visit the Augusta campus next week.

Homeschoolers of Maine convention set for April 21, 22

Programs and workshops are planned in Augusta and Manchester.

Augusta Housing Authority director leaving for new housing gig

Before Amanda Olson became executive director of the organization, it had no housing. It now has 76 units of rental housing in Augusta and more than 100 proposed.