Caitlyn Young, 18, receives Girls Scouts Gold Award for a raised-bed vegetable garden project she developed that will not only be used to help feed the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter guests, but also to teach them how to grow their own food.
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Posted inElections, Maine, News
Visually impaired voters sue state over lack of accessible absentee ballots
The 4 plaintiffs from communities around Maine requested electronic ballots to vote absentee but were denied.
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Posted inMaine, News
Maine’s streak of low daily virus case numbers continues
Twenty new cases of coronavirus were reported Thursday but no additional deaths, as Maine continues to avoid the spikes seen in other states.
Posted inNation & World, News
Russia is hacking virus vaccine trials, U.S., Britain and Canada say
They allege that a Russian intelligence unit is attacking academic and pharmaceutical research institutions involved in COVID-19 vaccine development.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine unemployment claims increase after weeks of decline
The number of Mainers who filed initial claims last week increased by more than 60% from the previous week, to 4,400.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Rising coronavirus infections threaten U.S. economic recovery
Credit card spending has stalled, and more than a million Americans sought unemployment benefits last week.
Posted inCommunity
Merrymeeting Arts Center to offer online felted animal crafts beginning July 20
BOWDOINHAM — Merrymeeting Arts Center will hold a first in a series of felted animal crafts with local Bowdoinham artist, Isabel Stearns from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, July 20, online. Participants can make a woodland owl to use as an ornament, decoration or gift. Stearns will host this live Zoom meeting where she will […]
Posted inNation & World, News
The Latest: Virus prompts drastic measures in Texas as death toll grows in U.S.
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world. HOUSTON — The spread of the coronavirus surged unabated in hot spots around the U.S. on Thursday, with one city in South Carolina urging people to pray it into submission, a hospital in Texas bringing in military medical personnel and funeral morgues […]
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘To Bury or Burn’
Selected poems by Judith Robbins