Prine, considered ‘the Mark Twain of American songwriting,’ died on Tuesday from complications of the coronavirus. Here, we reviewed his previous appearances in Maine.
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World track and field championships rescheduled for July 2022
The championships, originally to take place in August 2021 in Eugene, Oregon, have been pushed back a year in light of the Olympics being postponed.
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Stocks climb 3.4% on Wall Street as hopes build for virus peak
Markets have been incredibly volatile in recent weeks as investors blindly guess how badly the coronavirus outbreak will hurt corporate profits amid suffocating uncertainty.
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Fenway Park’s organist, with no games to play, launched a season of his own
Josh Kantor, the organist at Fenway since 2003, is developing a new following with his daily broadcast on Facebook.
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Tokyo Olympic flame taken off display to ‘prevent people from gathering’
The flame was to remain on display through the end of April after the Tokyo Olympics and the torch relay were postponed until next year.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in ICU with coronavirus, is ‘improving’
He was admitted to St. Thomas’ Hospital in London on Sunday and moved to the ICU on Monday after his condition deteriorated.
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Masters in November is better than no Masters at all
There is still no guarantee the reconfigured and iconic golf tournament will happen in November, but even with fall foliage instead of spring blooms, it will still be the Masters.
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New data suggest U.S. coronavirus deaths may be lower than feared
The apparent effects of social distancing in three major hot spots — Italy, New York and California — have given scientists hope the death toll could be lower than White House projections.
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Central Maine Healthcare furloughs 300 workers
The temporary leave affects about 10% of its workforce.
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Two more Mainers die from COVID-19; testing plan falters
The director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says the agency has not been able to get the rapid-response testing kits it expected from a Scarborough manufacturer and is going ‘back to the drawing board.’