COVID pandemic forced meets to get creative with crowds and numbers.
2020
Posted inMaine colleges, Sports
Pandemic leaves opening week of college hoops in disarray
Eight months after March Madness was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, the start of the season has been thrown into disarray.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine
Downeaster still chugging along despite low ridership
With four out of five daily trips from Brunswick to Boston back up and running following a two-month shut down in the spring and only up to 50 percent capacity on a train at a time, Downeaster officials are reporting only about 400 travelers per day— just about a quarter of projected totals.
Posted inTimes Record
New hockey rink may come to Topsham
Midcoast Youth Hockey has negotiated a purchase and sale agreement to buy the former Roller World building and land along Route 201 in Topsham to build a three-season indoor ice arena.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Dreaming of owning a coastal Maine inn? How does a century year-old Phippsburg ‘artist oasis’ sound
Built in 1911, the Rock Gardens Inn is made of nine separate cottages spread across 4.6 acres on the western shore of Phippsburg.
Posted inTimes Record, Uncategorized
Brunswick firefighters snuff out fire at BIW manufacturing building
A fire broke out in a dust collector Friday morning but was extinguished before spreading, according to Brunswick Fire Chief Ken Brillant.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Airlines anticipate loss reaching $157 billion before vaccines are widespread
The figure is almost 60 percent more than the industry’s main trade group forecast in June.
Posted inTimes Record
Bowdoin crash leads to arrest
The alleged driver, Adam Call, 23, of Lisbon Falls was charged with operating under the influence.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
Outbreaks reported at Gray Birch Long Term Care in Augusta, Doolin’s Pub in Litchfield
MaineGeneral CEO Chuck Hayes said 250 tests have been performed on staff members and residents at Gray Birch, and visitation is now “virtual only.”
Posted inHealth
COVID-19 contact tracing under stress in Maine but holding up better than in neighboring states
The Maine CDC has scaled back the scope of investigations, but unlike New Hampshire and other states still thinks the disease is containable.