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Debora Kapisha, the registered nurse detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently at Boston Logan International Airport, has been released from ICE custody and is coming home to Maine.

Registered nurses at Houlton Regional Hospital hand-delivered a signed letter of no confidence in the hospital’s CEO, Jeff Zewe, to the president of the hospital’s Board of Trustees on July 30.

PHOTO: UMaine Grad Workers deliver a message to a staffer for UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy.

Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 714 recently negotiated contracts with substantial wage increases.

Residents of the Hidden Circle Mobile Home Park in Jay purchased its manufactured home community last week for $1 million, ensuring the land beneath 31 homes in Jay can remain locally owned and affordable for years to come.

Work continues at the Local 14 Solidarity Center, and the building is looking better all the time. On March 25, the Union Construction Academy brought their pre-apprenticeship class to the hall.