Red Sox ballpark organist Josh Kantor has been offering a livestreamed virtual seventh-inning stretch every day on Facebook.
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Maine lost 1,700 construction jobs from March to April
About 5.7% of all Maine jobs in the industry were lost as projects were postponed or canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but the state had the lowest percentage of construction job losses in New England.
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Worry, haste, retail therapy: What have we bought and why?
Some people have gone shopping mad during the pandemic.
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U.S. new-home sales post slight gain in April
U.S. new home sales ticked up 0.6% in April, a surprising gain amid the coronavirus outbreak that hints at the relative health of many consumers.
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Stocks soar as New York Stock Exchange reopens floor to traders
The Dow Jones industrial average shot up nearly 600 points Tuesday, about 2.3%.
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Scared Americans desperate to travel are buying up ‘covid campers’
Some people are shelling out upwards of $100,000 so they can hit the road while staying away from everyone else.
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Cafe safety video featured by nationwide office retailer
Mornings in Paris owner Paul Humphrey wanted customers to feel safe, so he made a video showing improvements at the cafe.
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The Latest: WHO warns of second peak, discourages swift return to normalcy
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic. WASHINGTON — The World Health Organization warned nations Tuesday against scaling back coronavirus restrictions too quickly, saying a premature push to return to normalcy could fuel a rapid acceleration of new cases. “We cannot make assumptions that just because the disease is on the way down now that it’s […]
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The Universal Notebook: Conspiracies ‘R’ US
The appeal of conspiracy theories is that they allow frightened people to dismiss unpleasant realities and weak people to feel superior, as in they know the real story. Lately, the same tinfoil hat brigade that peddled the evil idea that the Newtown school massacre didn’t really happen has been pushing a couple of other malevolent […]
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State program to resolve consumer complaints on hold for pandemic
The Attorney General’s Office’s Consumer Protection Division, already facing a backlog of mediation cases, suspended its volunteer-reliant services two months ago.