The event Saturday included a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. when the 2001 terrorist attacks on America began.
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Maine CDC reports 581 new virus cases, 2 more deaths
Hospitalizations remained high at 184 on Saturday, down slightly from Friday’s total of 192.
Top Biden official meets Sen. King in Portland to talk renewable energy
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm used the visit to highlight research into generating electricity from rivers and tidal currents.
Maine reports 14 outbreaks in schools along with 506 new cases of COVID-19
Hundreds of unvaccinated students who have come into close contact with infected students are now at home in quarantine.
Exclusive: 9/11 as seen from the Midcoast – an oral history
Those in the southern Midcoast – including shipbuilders, sailors and a now-U.S. Senator — vividly recall in their own words the events of Sept. 11, 20 years later.
Angus King recalls governing Maine during nation’s worst terrorist attack
On Sept. 11, 2001, then-Gov. Angus King was commuting from his home in Brunswick to the state capitol, as he did every morning, being one of the few Maine governors to forgo living in Augusta’s Blaine House. He recalled hearing of the first plane striking the World Trade Center’s North Tower just before 9 a.m., […]
20 years later, workers at Navy Base and BIW recall how 9/11 hijackings shook their world
Twenty years have passed since the day 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked and crashed four planes in what would become the deadliest attack on the United States. Terrorists flew two of the planes into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in lower Manhattan. A third plane struck the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plummeted into […]
Federal vaccination requirement will apply to about 1 in 3 Maine workers
About 170,000 Mainers work for companies with more than 100 employees and will be required to be inoculated or take weekly tests.
‘It was complete annihilation’: Bath firefighter remembers working at Ground Zero
“What really threw us off was (the towers) were gone,” Michael Clarke, a first responder in the 9/11 attacks, said. “It’s hard to … see New York City on its knees.”
Maine CDC investigating 10 COVID outbreaks at school districts
Nearly 80 children and adolescents with COVID-19 were admitted to hospitals across the state between Aug. 1, 2020 and Sept. 6, 2021.