Maine Craft Distilling’s founder says his company retooled to produce sanitizer that Noble Partners ordered but never bought.
Colin Woodard
Colin Woodard is the Press Herald’s State and National Affairs Writer, and is often at work on large investigative projects. Born in Waterville and raised in western Maine, he was a foreign correspondent for two decades, reported from more than fifty countries on all seven continents, and witnessed the collapse of communism and its bloody aftermath in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He’s written five books, including histories of Maine (The Lobster Coast), North America’s rival regional cultures (American Nations) and the Golden Age Pirates (Republic of Pirates), which was turned into a quickly forgotten NBC mini-series starring John Malkovich as Blackbeard. Since joining the Press Herald in 2012, he’s won a George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. He used to be an avid sailor and SCUBA diver, but with small kids at home, his hobbies now include sleeping and picking up toys.
The preacher and the plague
The Rev. Todd Bell continues to flout public health measures aimed at keeping the pandemic in check. His backstory helps explain why.
COVID-19 hospitalizations ticking up and spreading out in Maine as new cases soar
The inpatient caseload is spread over an unusually wide number of hospitals, while Portland’s are remarkably quiet.
Maine company that took orders for pandemic supplies faces federal lawsuit
Noble Partners is accused of keeping deposits after failing to fulfill orders for medical supplies.
Health officials fear ‘one big fire’ from COVID-19 in southern Maine
York County is seeing new cases at a rate three times the statewide average, and Oxford County is also showing signs of trouble.
Two of 10 quarantined staff at Waterville hospital test positive for COVID-19
The two Northern Light Inland Hospital employees were initially exposed to an infected individual while they were off duty and not on hospital property.
Waterville hospital quarantines 10 staff after potential exposure to patient with COVID-19
Northern Light Inland Hospital, which hasn’t had a COVID-19 inpatient since early April, is saying little about the incident.
York County becomes worrisome epicenter of pandemic in Maine
Mainers hosted an entire summer tourism season without a hitch, but a noncomplying wedding reception and a defiant pastor have created conditions for a new COVID-19 surge.
COVID-19 hospitalizations remain low in Maine as summer tourist season ends
Portland and Bangor hospitals have been especially quiet as few acutely affected patients appear in emergency rooms statewide.
How Maine flattened the virus curve – so far
Early lockdown, broad public compliance, science-based policy and a bit of luck have kept the disease in check here while it has exploded in other parts of the U.S.