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There’s an “Island of Misfit Toys” in the popular holiday classic. Now there’s an island for unwanted and banned books, too. The tiny library on Matinicus Island 22 miles off the Maine coast is on a mission to fill its shelves with books that have fallen out of favor elsewhere. From “And Tango Makes Three,” the story of two...

Thousands of public service workers around the country are receiving welcome news for the holidays: the federal government is forgiving their student loan debt. The development comes after they were initially rejected for a program intended to reward their chosen career path. However, after the Biden administration announced a limited waiver period in October, many of those workers are now…

A children’s book checked out from the Boise, Idaho, public library in 1910 vanished for 111 years only to be returned anonymously, library officials said.

A Maine elementary school heavily damaged by a fire is trying to figure out how to replace more than 8,000 books. In late July, flames tore through the Dr. Levesque Elementary School in Frenchville. A week-and-a-half later, staff are trying to move forward after the school’s buildings were declared a “total loss.” Part of that effort includes rebuilding the library,…

A bookstore in Portland, Maine stepped in to help after an elementary school in Frenchville was partially destroyed by a fire.

Seven people apprehended after entering Vermont illegally from Quebec by driving across the lawn of a library built in both the United States and Canada were immediately returned to Canada, the U.S. Border Patrol said Thursday. Surveillance videos released by the Border Patrol shows the car drive by the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line on...

Through the Camel Library project, Roshan the camel carries the books on his hump and delivers them to children in Pakistan every week.

More people will be allowed in public buildings such as town halls and libraries in Maine in the coming weeks. The state has limited attendance at public buildings to 50% of permitted occupancy or 50 people, whichever is greater. The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development said that will rise to 75% of permitted occupancy or 50 people, whichever…

Maine has opened the second FEMA mobile vaccine site in all of New England Monday, and it could make an impact in underserved communities.