BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Job Corps Centers in Bangor and Limestone will reopen for enrollment.

Senator Susan Collins announced Friday that the Department of Labor has reversed its decision to halt enrollment.

That means the Penobscot Job Corps Center and Loring Job Corps Center will be able to accept new students.

Enrollment was stopped in April after the Trump Administration announced plans to stop funding the Job Corps Program.

“I am so glad that the two Job Corps Centers in Maine—the Loring Job Corps Center and the Penobscot Job Corps Center—are no longer facing closure. In May, I urged Secretary Chavez-DeRemer to reverse the Administration’s decision to halt enrollments and told her how important these centers have been to students like Adais Viruet-Torres, who credits the Loring Jo

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