Stimulus 2022: Residents in Maine have nine days to claim $850 relief checks

Brady Knox

October 22, 07:00 AM October 22, 07:00 AM

Maine residents have until the end of October to claim COVID-19 relief checks worth up to $850.

An estimated 858,000 Maine residents will receive a check, bringing the total up to $729.3 million given back to taxpayers, according to the office of Democratic Gov. Janet T. Mills. The stated purpose of the checks is to help alleviate the financial stress caused by inflation and the pandemic.

STIMULUS UPDATE: MILLIONS MAY STILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR COVID-19 STIMULUS PAYMENTS

“What this budget shows once again, through hard work and good faith negotiation, Democrats, Republicans, and independents can come together to do what is right for Maine people and that we can do so without rancor or bitter partisanship that has sometimes divided Augusta in the past,” Mills said.

To obtain the new check, residents must file a 2021 individual income tax return by the end of the month, to which last year's deadline has been extended.

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Applicants must make under $100,000 if filing single or if married and filing separately, under $150,000 if filing as head of household, and under $200,000 for couples filing jointly.

Stimulus 2022: Residents in Maine have 10 days to claim $850 relief checks

Asher Notheis

October 21, 12:50 PM October 21, 12:50 PM

Maine residents have until Halloween to claim up to $850 in COVID-19 relief.

The stimulus payments, which are available due to a state budget surplus, are being sent out to offer financial assistance to reduce economic strains related to the pandemic and increasing inflation. About 858,000 residents will be eligible to claim their relief checks if they file by Oct. 31.

“What this budget shows once again, through hard work and good faith negotiation, Democrats, Republicans, and independents can come together to do what is right for Maine people and that we can do so without rancor or bitter partisanship that has sometimes divided Augusta in the past,” Gov. Janet Mills said.

STIMULUS UPDATE: MILLIONS MAY STILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR COVID-19 STIMULUS PAYMENTS

Mills approved the distribution of the checks in April. The total cost of the stimulus payments is estimated to be $729.3 million.

To qualify for this payment, applicants must have been Maine residents for a full year and have filed their 2021 state tax returns by Oct. 31. Additionally, applicants must make less than $100,000 annually if filing individually, $150,000 if filing as the head of a household, or $200,000 if filing jointly, according to the governor’s office.

For joint filers, both will be given an $850 check if their tax return meets the eligibility criteria for a relief payment. Residents who are dependents do not qualify for this payment.

The relief checks will be mailed through the U.S. Postal Service to the address provided on the filer's 2021 Maine income tax return, which will then be redirected to any forwarding addresses filed with the Postal Service.

Bargain hunter scores 700-calendar year-outdated medieval moments document

Affiliated Press

September 24, 05:28 PM September 24, 05:28 PM

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A bargain hunter who went to an estate sale in Maine to obtain a KitchenAid mixer, a bookshelf or classic outfits walked absent with a 700-year-aged treasure.

Rather of a kitchen area appliance, Will Sideri stumbled upon a framed document hanging on a wall. It experienced elaborate script in Latin, together with musical notes and gold thrives. A sticker reported 1285 Ad. Primarily based on what he’d found in a manuscripts course at Colby Faculty, the document looked downright medieval.

And it was a discount at $75.

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Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais Missal, employed in the Beauvais Cathedral in France, and dated to the late 13th century. It was utilised about 700 a long time in the past in Roman Catholic worship, they said.

An expert on manuscripts explained the document, 1st reported by the Maine Monitor, could be truly worth as much as $10,000.

Soon after spying the uncommon manuscript, Sideri contacted his former Colby Higher education professor, who was acquainted with it for the reason that there’s an additional site in the university collection. The professor achieved out to an additional educational who’d researched the document. They swiftly confirmed the authenticity.

The parchment was element of a prayer ebook and priests’ liturgy, stated Lisa Fagin Davis, executive director of the Medieval Academy of The us and a professor of manuscript experiments at Simmons University in Boston.

The comprehensive missal was once owned by William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper publisher, before becoming sold in the 1940s and, significantly to the consternation of today’s academics, was divvied up into person pages, she stated.

The apply was popular in the early 20th century. “Thousands of exclusive manuscripts have been wrecked and scattered this way,” Davis stated.

Davis has painstakingly investigated The Beauvais Missal, and has tracked down a lot more than 100 personal internet pages across the place. All advised, the missal numbered 309 webpages in its first type.

The site procured by Sideri is of distinct interest to students.

It is a treasure equally because of its age and problem, which is far better than the other website page in the Colby collection, reported Megan Prepare dinner, Sideri’s previous professor, who teaches medieval literature at Colby.

The parchment is truly worth upward of $10,000, in accordance to Davis. But Sideri reported he has no intention of offering it.

He said he likes the historical past and natural beauty of the parchment — and the story of how he stumbled upon it.

“This is some thing at the close of the working day that I know is neat,” he reported. “I didn’t obtain this expecting to offer it.”

Maine diverts $20M for climate alter adaptation

Christian Wade / The Center Square contributor

July 25, 08:03 AM July 25, 08:03 AM

(The Centre Sq.) – Maine cities and cities are obtaining a further tranche of federal income from the state to enable harden their infrastructure versus the impression of local climate modify.

The point out Section of Transportation this 7 days awarded additional than $20 million in grants to 13 communities across the condition to boost their resilience against the consequences of flooding, growing sea amounts, and intense storms.

Funding for the grants, which arrives from the state's share of the federal American Rescue Approach Act, is remaining distributed as a result of Maine's Infrastructure Adaptation Fund. Maine has acquired more than $2.4 billion in ARPA resources for weather modify initiatives.

Gov. Janet Mills stated the paying will assistance communities "improve their infrastructure to far better deal with the impacts of local climate modify, increasing the protection of their cities."

Winslow Town Supervisor Erica LaCroix stated metropolitan areas and towns are emotion the impression of local climate alter but a lack of funding has prevented them from the vital updates to harden their infrastructure. She said the city will be having more than $2.7 million in funding by the new method which will be used to enhance its stormwater technique.

"The increased severity of storms has surpassed the ability of our growing older stormwater system, and firms and residents have endured considerable losses as a final result," she mentioned.

Just one of the major grants will be likely to Boothbay Harbor, which is getting far more than $4.15 million for upgrades to a regional wastewater therapy facility to safeguard in opposition to harm from sea stage rise and storm surges. Bathtub is finding $4 million by way of the grant program to assist boost drainage techniques throughout the town, according to the Mills administration.

Maine has set bold ambitions to reduce greenhouse fuel emissions 80% by 2050 and has been diverting tens of tens of millions of dollars of point out and federal income to grow renewable vitality and harden the state's general public infrastructure to the impacts of weather alter.

Republicans have criticized the Mills administration's intense spending on environmental initiatives, arguing that initiatives this kind of as incorporating photo voltaic panels on the governor's mansion are driving up the state's credit card debt when performing minor to blunt the effect of local weather alter.