Nurses at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent and Houlton Regional Hospital are working without a contract and say concerns about staffing, recruitment, pay and safety have not been addressed in negotiations.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Demo begins at the former Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine
The Portland Museum of Art started tearing down the building at 142 Free St. this week.
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ACA premiums to rise an average of nearly 24% in Maine
Some Affordable Care Act enrollees could see premiums jump even higher if Congress doesn’t extend subsidies set to expire at the end of 2025.
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Westbrook’s Vertical Harvest is an architectural response to food insecurity | Column
Vertical Harvest’s growing facility has an urban footprint of just one-half of an acre, but can produce a yield equivalent to 250 rural acres of the same crop.
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Brunswick’s Maine State Music Theatre brings Broadway to Portland’s waterfront
The event raised $155,000 to support MSMT’s ongoing mission to enrich lives through musical theater.
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Three bright, complicated sisters want their mother’s attention
In his moving family saga, in ‘The Frequency of Living Things,’ Nick Fuller Googins captures the complexities of sisterhood and the human heart.
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Bestsellers: ‘Katabasis’ and ‘Coming up Short’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Deep Water: ‘Grief,’ by Stuart Kestenbaum
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Northern Light Health announces it will cut 3% of its workforce
The second-largest health care system in Maine has suffered from financial difficulties during the past few years.
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2 primary care centers set to shutter in central Maine
The Manchester Care Center and Aurora Healthcare in Fairfield are both set to close later this year.