The college warned students Friday that it may need to impose in-room remote learning to stop the disease from spreading after it reported 18 cases this month.
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Maine Voices: ‘Blue carbon’ coastal ecosystems provide important path to a green future
The tens of thousands of acres of salt marshes and eelgrass meadows in Maine are serving a vital function in mitigating climate change.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Schools and Education
Expecting new COVID-19 cases to arrive with students, Bates College will add rapid tests to screenings
Bates students will begin to file back onto campus this week, and with the crowd will come increased risk of COVID-19 transmission, say campus officials.
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Renewing Bates’ ‘cherished place’
With Lisbon glass expert Jim Nutting fixing its stained-glass windows, the 107-year-old chapel at Bates College sparkles more than ever after a two-year renovation.
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Bates delays start of next semester by five weeks
To better cope with COVID-19, the winter semester is slated to begin Feb. 17 instead of early January.
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Five more Bates students test positive; 62 now quarantined.
Four of the students whose tests came back positive late Tuesday were close contacts of a classmate who had already come down with the disease.
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‘Deepening concern’ as more COVID-19 cases hit Bates College
Students told to stay on campus until they go home at Thanksgiving
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Bates students told to pack as if they might not come back in January
In case COVID-19 makes it impossible to reopen the campus in January, students are asked to take care of their belongings before leaving for the extended Thanksgiving break.
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Bates sends home ‘a number of students’ for violating COVID-19 rules
College officials warn students to maintain their vigilance to keep Bates open and Lewiston safe.
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Former Lewiston and Auburn Mayor John Jenkins dies
The Bates College grad got into politics in Lewiston in 1993.