Letter
2021
This UMaine team wants to make some history of its own
Women’s basketball has become the standard-bearer for University of Maine athletics. This year’s squad believes it’s poised to make a playoff run at least equal to the best teams in the program’s storied history.
Nursing home gains threatened by lack of vaccine, unvaccinated workers
As COVID-19 cases ebb and long-term care facilities resume in-person visits, concern is growing that these are precarious gains without continued vaccine allocations and fully inoculated staffs.
Our View: Maine has been tested in year of COVID
Twelve months since the state’s first case, we are among the safest in the country – with much work left to do.
Maine’s Roman Catholic bishop has spoken. Was anyone listening?
The use of fetus-derived cells to develop COVID-19 vaccines is not a debate worth having at this pivotal moment.
Summer in Maine just might be close to ‘normal’ this year
Public health experts are cautious, but with widespread vaccination the virus may be under enough control that activities can return closer to what they were before the pandemic.
Hiking in Maine: Sunkhaze wildlife refuge rises up to provide a peaceful, year-round adventure
Eight miles of trails provide hikers, snowshoers and cross-country skiers year-round access at Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
For final project, Maine poet laureate puts out podcast featuring young writers
Stuart Kestenbaum’s ‘Voices of the Future’ comes out this month, as he wraps up his five-year term.