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Then-Norwalk Recreation and Parks Department Director Mike Mocciae, center, shows off the second floor of the Fodor Farm main house to Common Council Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs Committee members in 2016. (Archive photo)
NORWALK, Conn. It’s ridiculous to take credit for great things going on in Norwalk parks, developments that were years and even decades in the making, and then claim the Recreation and Parks Department was mismanaged before the latest director came in, Mike Mocciae said.
Mocciae, speaking recently to NancyOnNorwalk from his retirement enclave in South Carolina, hotly took aim at comments made by Norwalk Chief of Staff Laoise King when it was announced that his replacement, Recs & Parks Director Nick Roberts, was leaving.
AUGUSTA Senator Chip Curry, D-Belfast, introduced Tuesday a bill to create a nonpartisan research institute to provide the Legislature with information and policy options to improve Maine’s economy.
LD 1517, “An Act To Establish the Maine Workforce, Research, Development and Student Achievement Institute,” was the subject of a public hearing before the Legislature’s Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee (IDEA).
“In IDEA, we work on some of the biggest and most challenging issues facing our state,” said Sen. Curry, senate chair of the committee. “For example, developing a larger, more skilled workforce requires more workforce housing options, increased broadband coverage, expanded access to affordable child care and more. These issues are complex, and nobody is an expert in all of them. By providing credible, objective research about what things are like in Maine right now, and about emerging trends and policies that are working in oth
Maine close to bringing more local food into schools
April 24, 2021 GMT
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) A Maine legislative committee has approved a proposal designed to aid public schools in buying more fresh, local food.
The proposal, by Democratic Sen. Eloise Vitelli of Arrowsic, would expand the state’s Local Produce Fund to allow schools to buy more food via sources other than directly from farms. Vitelli said the change would also expand the program beyond produce to include protein foods such as meat, fish, tofu and eggs.
The proposal would also increase the reimbursement cap, which would encourage more local purchasing, Vitelli said. Vitelli said that by “expanding the venues that schools can use to buy this food, and expanding the kind of locally produced food they can buy, we’ll help get healthy, fresh food to more students in our state and help more farmers connect with buyers for their produce.”
Maine close to bringing more local food into schools
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