Taken lightly by many, the sophomore-heavy Warriors toppled a pair of powerhouses to earn the program’s lone Gold Ball.
2020
Brunswick and Topsham-area schools hosting suicide prevention forums
Forums will look at the warning signs of suicide and provide tools to support students in a time of increased mental health stress due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Sweet Dreams Project gives Christmas gifts to 500 children in central Maine
The project is led by Debora Tanner, a teacher at Skowhegan Area Middle School, who has worked to make sure children will not go without gifts.
Some environmentalists worry Bowdoin College’s new solar array will harm rare grassland
The 20-acre, 18,000-panel solar array will help offset the college’s energy consumption, but the land is situated on a rare, “critically imperiled” grassland that environmentalists worry will be harmed by the project.
Maine’s presidential electors cast votes in divided outcome
Joe Biden took 3 of Maine’s 4 electoral votes, and President Trump took the other because he carried the 2nd Congressional District.
MaineGeneral in Augusta to get its first vaccine shipment Tuesday
While MaineGeneral in Augusta is receiving the Pfizer vaccine, Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville is slated to get the Moderna vaccine, which has not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Attorney General William Barr to step down before Christmas, Trump says
The president has been unhappy since his attorney general announced that the Justice Department found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
Fed to weigh further options for aiding U.S. economy in peril
The central bank’s policy meeting Wednesday coincides with a record-shattering resurgence of the coronavirus.
Augusta’s Hussey Elementary School reports third positive COVID-19 case in a week
Regional School Unit 2’s Marcia Buker Elementary School in Richmond is undergoing contact tracing.
Thomas College allocates $1.5 million from Alfond grant to Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program
The JMG program launched at Thomas in 2014 as a way to help high school students transition into the college environment.