It’s considered the biggest in Maine and one of the biggest in the country.
2021
Hang on, if you dare: Professional bull riders come to Maine and put on a show
Riders on the Professional Bull Riders Velocity Tour earn points — and paychecks — the longer they can stay on a bull.
COVID-19 uptick continues in Maine with 70 new cases, six more deaths
The seven-day average of new daily cases rose to 70, a few days after the state recorded its first daily count over 100 in more than a month.
View from Away: Climate change is driving extreme floods, wildfires and heat. Will the world meet the moment?
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Pittston student earns engineering degree
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Joshua Farrin of Pittston recently graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a BS in electrical engineering. About 4,000 degrees were conferred in the 2020-21 academic year at all of RIT’s campuses. Due to New York state COVID-19 occupancy restrictions, commencement was celebrated May 14-15 in smaller ceremonies by college and were […]
Maine Compass: The University of Maine System must mandate vaccines
We must avoid another disruptive, mid-semester shift to looking at squares on a laptop, a UMaine student writes.
Commentary: Democrats are focusing on the wrong part of Medicare
Getting more people covered by Medicare should be the priority; expanding what the program covers can come later.
Maine Voices: Billionaires’ space tourism is a farce
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson think we should applaud them for leaving the planet instead of spending to fix problems here on Earth.