Police say three family members who were attacked by an animal on a walking path in Lisbon Saturday are getting rabies treatments as a precaution. Lisbon Police Chief Marc Hagan said either a coyote or a dog attacked an 11-year-old girl who suffered bite wounds to her leg. He said the mother and father suffered […]
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Woolwich voters choose local EMS to cover town, vote not to contract with Bath
WOOLWICH — Woolwich will rely on its own local emergency medical services when its contract with North East Mobile Health Services expires this summer. Residents at the Woolwich town meeting voted 84-56 not to contract with Bath Fire and Rescue, and to instead put faith in the department that selectman Allen Greene said has “stepped […]
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Senate moves to end some exemptions for vaccines
AUGUSTA — The state Senate moved Thursday to end philosophical but not religious exemptions to vaccines, amid rising concerns about disease outbreaks. In an initial round of voting, the Senate voted 20-15 on a bill that would end both kinds of opt-outs by 2021 for schoolchildren, as well as employees at nursery schools and health […]
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Skowhegan Indian Pride supporter mounts challenge to school leaders
SKOWHEGAN — The school board delivered its proposed $36.7 million spending package for the coming year at an informational session Thursday night but was met with a challenge from some “Indian Pride” supporters who are not giving up on their bid to reverse local votes to drop Native American mascots in schools. James Macarthur, of […]
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Woolwich faces choice on emergency medical services at town meeting Saturday
WOOLWICH — With their current emergency medical services contract set to expire, Woolwich residents will have to choose how the town provides ambulance services at the annual town meeting on Saturday. The town’s contract with North East Mobile Health Services, the company that has provided emergency medical services in Woolwich since 2004, expires on June […]
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Maine strikes tentative marijuana-tracking deal with Florida company
Maine struck a tentative $275,000 deal with a Florida company Thursday to track marijuana growth, manufacturing and sales in both the medical and adult-use markets throughout the state. If finalized, the conditional award to Fort Lauderdale-based Bio-Tech Medical Software Inc., which operates a cloud-based tracking service known as BioTechTHC in 10 states including Delaware, Illinois and Washington […]
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Shortcomings in care could cost Lewiston hospital its Medicare and Medicaid funding
LEWISTON — Central Maine Medical Center has so many problems — including a nursing error in October that left a patient paralyzed — that the federal government might stop paying for Medicare and Medicaid patients to be admitted there. The problems were uncovered by federal investigators who visited in January, March and April. If the […]
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Maine briefs: Proposal to ban single-use plastic bags moves to lawmakers; Bill for terminally ill to get life-ending meds moves ahead
Proposal to ban single-use plastic bags moves to lawmakers AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Democrat’s bill to ban single-use bags is heading to the Legislature. The Democratic-controlled Legislature’s Environmental and Natural Resources Committee voted Wednesday along party lines on the bill. Democratic Rep. Holly Stover’s bill aims to prohibit retailers from using single-use, carry-out bags […]
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Bowdoin College, Chabad of Brunswick hosting events to honor victims of synagogue shootings
BRUNSWICK– In the darkest times, amidst the “most deadly forms of depravity,” it is important to keep singing. This is the message conductor Anthony Antolini hopes to spread through a Bowdoin College choral concert this weekend honoring the victims of two synagogue shootings — the Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooting in October that killed 11 people […]
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Sen. King blasts Maine Yankee handling at nuclear energy bill hearing
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Angus King criticized of how closure of the now-defunct Maine Yankee nuclear power plant in Wiscasset has been handled by the federal government Tuesday during a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The hearing was held on the proposed Nuclear Energy Leadership Act. According to a statement from […]