The National Education Association is launching a campaign to support students during this pandemic.
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Posted inHealth, Local & State
Maine is the only state that’s not calculating positive test rate daily
The Maine CDC says the proportion of people testing positive for COVID-19 is a key metric used to monitor outbreaks and guide reopening, but it is calculating the rate only once a week.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
National Guard, first responders salute Maine hospital workers: See the photos and video
Hospital staff, nurses and doctors at more than a dozen medical facilities took a break Tuesday to watch a flyover salute by a Maine National Guard KC-135.
Posted inHealth, Local & State
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maine flat for 4th week, but upticks in Portland and Bangor
Outbreaks at a meat plant, a rehab facility and a homeless shelter may account for the increases, as it’s too early to see any effects of loosened restrictions.
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Over Easy: Notes from the underground in the time of coronavirus
March 17 – Three days I have been in voluntary quarantine here in my condo. I’m not complaining. I’m too old for the front lines and the sight of a needle makes me nauseous. But stay at home? Piece of cake, as they say. I miss my wife, who was visiting her mother when the […]
Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Southern Maine Weeklies
Local man wins battle with COVID-19
How he contracted the virus is a mystery.
Posted inTimes Record
Bath library builds archive documenting pandemic
The library is encouraging anyone who lives, works or feels at home in Sagadahoc County to send written statements, photos, videos or audio clips to include in the archive.
Posted inTimes Record
Topsham Fair canceled due to pandemic
The fair’s board of directors announced there won’t be a fair in August due to concerns about the coronavirus.
Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Southern Maine Weeklies
Going the distance in learning at St. James School
Students see each other, and their teachers, in online classes every weekday.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
The Universal Notebook: The selfish minority
A recent Quinnipiac University poll found the vast majority of Americans – 68% of Republicans and 95% of Democrats – support stay-at-home orders in order to protect vulnerable citizens from the coronavirus. And then there is that selfish minority that refuses to be inconvenienced in order to protect others. I have never referred to Donald […]