PHOENIX, Arizona, July 24 (TNSres) -- Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication issued the following news: Cronkite alumna Adrienne Washington has been named a Roy W. Howard Fellow and will spend the next year working at The Maine Monitor, a nonprofit news organization. The Scripps Howard Fund announced that Washington, a graduate of the Cronkite School's Master of Arts in Investigative Journalism program, is one of five investigative journalists wh  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, July 24 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news on July 23, 2024: * * * Six projects in Maine will receive Federal funds through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to improve local electric grid infrastructure and technology * * * Governor Janet Mills today announced $6.6 million in grant awards to six Maine utilities and technology providers to deploy electrical grid resilience projects in Maine communities. The awards, selected through the Maine Grid Resilie  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, July 24 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news on July 23, 2024: * * * Sanford-Springvale YMCA will offer free, full-day Pre-K in partnership with City of Sanford * * * Sanford, MAINE - Governor Janet Mills today participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for a major expansion of the Sanford-Springvale YMCA child care center funded in part by the Governor's Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan. Utilizing a $250,000 Jobs Plan Child Care Infrastructure Grant provided thr  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, July 23 -- The Maine Democratic Party issued the following statement on July 21, 2024: * * * In response to President Biden ending his re-election campaign, Maine Democratic Party Chair Bev Uhlenhake released the following statement: "President Biden will be remembered as one of the most accomplished presidents in our nation's history. He was elected during one of the most turbulent periods our country had ever seen, in the midst of a raging pandemic, skyrocketing unemployment  more

ORONO, Maine, July 24 -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Between late 2019 and early 2020, workers were installing offshore wind turbines (OWTs) off the coasts of Germany in the North Sea that would provide 200 megawatts of offshore wind power. Amid rough ocean waves and high winds, a jack-up crane vessel would lift a blade several hundred meters high to connect it to the top of the tower, one of the most critical stages in OWT construction. Before the blade could b  more