Name: Importance of snacks for kids at school
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Description: Experts advise parents to look at the colors in their kids' snack options to make sure they get plenty of fruits and vegetables.

Marketplace at Augusta celebrates back to school shopping with block party

The Marketplace at Augusta held it's 7th annual Back to School Block Party on Saturday drawing hundreds of families to the area for shopping and free entertainment

LOCAL

Bates College lands $3.97M grant to create visual experience database

The National Science Foundation grant is the largest ever received by the college.

EDUCATION
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Fueling kids for back to school

Giving you kid the option to have a snack gets them in the habit of acknowledging when they are hungry, and acting on it.

FOOD
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Your Garden: New takes on Hydrangeas.

NEWS CENTER Maine's Cindy Williams looks at some new varieties of old favorites with Tom Estabrook of Estabrook's in Yarmouth.

EDUCATION
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Importance of snacks for kids at school

Experts advise parents to look at the colors in their kids' snack options to make sure they get plenty of fruits and vegetables.

AS-SEEN-ON-TV
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Maryland public schools to teach LGBTQ, disability rights history

Prompted by advocates, Maryland delegates convinced the Maryland State Department of Education to include these groups in history curricula standards.

EDUCATION
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No tuition increase for Maine community colleges

Tuition at Maine's seven community colleges will remain the same as last year.

EDUCATION
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Back to school budgeting tips

Parents are sending their kids back to school, and some of them are going to college for the first time! Here's what your freshman needs to know about finances.

MONEY
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Maine community colleges will not see tuition rise

For Maine residents, tuition remains at $94 per credit hour. A full-time student taking 30 credit hours, cost of tuition and fees will average $3,620.

EDUCATION
Conn. school planning northern Maine medical residency

The money will help fund family medicine residency programs at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent, and Northern Light AR Gould Hospital in Presque Isle.

HEALTH
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Maine gets nearly $6 Million to fight opioid crisis

The University of Maine has received nearly $500 thousand to increase community-based training for students interested in the behavioral health professions.

HEALTH
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Fathers lined the walkway of this school to cheerfully welcome students back

As students entered Barack H. Obama Magnet Elementary School for their first day back, encouraging fathers lined the walkway.

HEARTTHREADS
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UMaine ranked 7th for drinking

The University of Maine landed a top spot among the drinking colleges in the nation

EDUCATION
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Cuts for Confidence event treats students heading back to school with the 'salon experience'

Cuts for Confidence included face painting, snow cones and, of course, fresh hairstyles.

NEWS
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Your Garden: Is it okay to plant this time of year?

Bill Kenny of Allen Sterling & Lothrop in Falmouth talks with NEWS CENTER Maine's Cindy Williams about Planting this time of year.

NEWS
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Maine interns celebrate another successful season

An event in Westbrook on August 8 invited 600 interns who spent the summer working in Maine to wrap up their experience with a celebration.

LOCAL