The funds can provide Mainers with home visits from nurses, social workers and other health care professionals as part of their prenatal and postpartum care.
Daniel Kool
Staff Writer
Daniel Kool is the Portland Press Herald's utilities reporter, covering electricity, gas, broadband - anything you get a bill for. He also covers the impact of tariffs on Maine and picks up the odd business story. He joined the Press Herald in 2024 as the night reporter. A graduate of Boston University, he previously covered city news, transportation and higher education for the Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in GBH News, the Boston Globe Magazine and Boston University's student newspaper, where he was the city news editor. A midwestern transplant, Daniel lives in Biddeford, where he plays with keyboards and little noise-making boxes.
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Mainers can now access their vaccination records on a mobile app
The Maine CDC is partnering with Docket, an app that gives people access to their immunization history. Requests for those records have skyrocketed since 2019.
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Live cannonball turned in to Yarmouth police
A man was attempting to turn in some ammunition, which included the cannonball, when concerns arose that it may still be active.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State
Old Town man sentenced to 3 years for child pornography
Matthew Podlaski, 40, was also sentenced to 5 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $58,000 in restitution.
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Lewiston shooter may have planned to ambush former co-workers in lot where his body was found
State police released a new document that suggests the gunman ‘would have known’ that there were no cameras in the overflow parking lot at Maine Recycling Corp., where he had worked.
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Police search for Fort Fairfield man missing since Thursday
Edward Bolstridge, 68, disappeared in the Presque Isle and Westfield area last week. Police say he has memory issues and MS.
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Harrington man killed in crash on Kennebec River Bridge
Police say Jed Carpenter was traveling south on Interstate 95 in Benton on Saturday night when he lost control of his 2006 Ford Econoline.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Bowdoinham Community School to partially close building after finding asbestos
Small amounts were found in the original section of the building, which was built in the 1950s. The district said detected levels are ‘extremely low.’
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
UMaine System plans to move ahead with sale of Hutchinson Center to church
System officials say that considering the Belfast evangelical group’s religious affiliation could amount to illegal discrimination.
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Portland landlords paying tenants more than $16,000 to settle retaliation case
The landlords of the Sawyer Street apartment admit no fault and the city won’t go to court to collect an $8,700 fine imposed by the rent board that has been accruing at $200 a day since June 3.