Eight residents asked selectmen to require masks in municipal buildings to protect town employees and the public, but the board again declined.
COVID-19
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Congress stuck as McConnell torpedoes bipartisan aid deal
A negotiating group including Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is working to rally lawmakers behind the $908 billion framework that includes a $300-per-week pandemic jobless benefit and $160 billion for state and local governments.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres tests positive for COVID-19
DeGeneres has been hosting her daytime talk show, ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show,’ live from her studio, with guests appearing both in person and virtually.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
U.S. CDC director allegedly ordered deletion of email that sought to interfere with coronavirus guidance
The editor of a key report told investigators that while on vacation in August, she received instructions to delete the email written by a senior adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News, Religion and Values
Bishop urges Maine Catholics to receive COVID vaccine, allaying concerns about use of fetal tissue
Some Catholics have questioned whether they should be vaccinated if tissue from aborted fetuses was used to develop or test the COVID-19 vaccines.
Posted inLocal & State, News
New COVID-19 cases in Maine top 400 for 3rd time this week
With 172 virus patients hospitalized statewide, health officials worry that the rise in cases will lead to more hospitalizations and deaths.
Posted inNation & World, New England, News
Exposure feared after New Hampshire’s new House speaker dies from COVID-19
Dick Hinch, who was sworn in Dec. 2 as leader of the state’s newly Republican-led, 400-member Legislature, died Wednesday.
Posted inLocal & State, Uncategorized
Portland’s East End Community School goes remote because of staff quarantines
Two people associated with the elementary school tested positive and two dozen are now in quarantine.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Staffing shortages threaten Maine’s hospitals as COVID-19 cases increase by more than 400
On a day when the state reports seven more deaths, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitals’ staffing shortages are ‘alarming.’
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Staffing shortages caused by COVID exposure forcing some Maine schools to go remote
As more teachers and staff quarantine because of coronavirus exposure, school districts are struggling to find enough substitutes to keep buildings open for in-person learning.