PORTLAND — East End Community School Eighty switched to fully remote learning for this week after five people in three households tested positive for COVID-19. The cases over the last week resulted in 80 people being required to quarantine. “Due to the number of contacts and staff quarantining, EECS will be closed to in-person instruction […]
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Our View: There are lessons to be learned from mild flu season
A “twin-demic” never materialized, and figuring out why could save lives in the future.
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Posted inNation & World
Johnson under fire as U.K. again faces onslaught of COVID-19
More than 3 million have tested positive and 81,000 have died.
Posted inNation & World
Lawmakers may have been exposed to coronavirus in Capitol lockdown
Members of Congress fled chambers and several hid in rooms together.
Posted inTimes Record
Maine CDC identifies COVID-19 outbreaks at two Bath schools
Fisher-Mitchell School in Bath not resume full in-person instruction for the first time since March as initially planned after the Maine CDC listed the school as an outbreak status, alongside Morse High School, according to a letter from RSU 1 Superintendent Patrick Manuel.
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Vaccine rollout confirms public health officials’ warnings
Public health officials complained for months about not having enough support or money to get COVID-19 vaccines quickly into arms.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Central Maine schools consider options for next round of federal coronavirus relief funding
With the state set to receive more than $183 million for schools from the latest COVID-19 relief package, school officials across central Maine are discussing best uses for the money.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Local & State
Maine Crisp Co. moving operations to Winslow
Family-owned company that began in Waterville is taking over a 17,500-square-foot facility at 20 Lithgow St.
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Maine CDC reports 281 COVID-19 cases, no new deaths
The daily numbers represent a lighter caseload than on many recent days, but the overall trend is dire, with Maine’s seven-day average of new daily cases at 530.9.
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Our View: Small-business growth is the recession’s cure
The job loss in 2020 was worse than any recession in the last 50 years and will take extraordinary action to bring jobs back.