If you are healthy and able, here are some steps you can take to help your community during the coronavirus pandemic. First, stay at home and keep your distance. Social distancing and isolation can be unpleasant, inconvenient and even depressing. But following this recommendation and others from public health officials can make a real difference […]
Megan Gray
Staff Writer
Megan Gray is an arts and culture reporter at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails. Her current beat is her favorite yet, and she loves the stories that take her to behind the scenes to an artist studio or theater backstage. Outside of work, she likes to explore Maine’s hiking trails and coastal islands with her husband, and she definitely wants to pet your dog.
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Cumberland County Jail inmate quarantined, tested for coronavirus
The man was being held on a probation violation for traffic offenses.
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Posted inMaine, News, Religion and Values, Times Record
Maine’s Catholic diocese suspends Masses
The announcement includes information about how to participate in Mass online via livestream, on TV or on the radio.
Posted inMaine
Coming together in faith even as a virus pulls communities apart
Religious leaders in Greater Portland are finding ways to foster togetherness as the coronavirus pandemic forces them to limit or even cancel physical services.
Posted inMaine, News
Courts cut back schedules, trials because of coronavirus
Jury trials and grand jury proceedings will be postponed in both state and federal courts through May 1.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Lawmakers urged to repeal provision allowing secrecy in police use of surveillance tools
Two legislators introduced the measure after the Maine Sunday Telegram reported that state police are using a provision in Maine law to conceal whether they are using technologies capable of mass surveillance of citizens.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Times Record
Bowdoinham teenager sentenced to 27 years for killing his grandmother
Investigators believe Dominic Sylvester, 18, beat his grandmother to death with a stick or club in the mobile home they shared.
Posted inHealth, Maine, Nation & World
Maine attorney general joins other states in comment on e-cigarette regulation
More than 2 dozen attorneys general have asked the Food and Drug Administration to strengthen its guidance on enforcement.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Uncategorized
Marissa Kennedy’s mother gets 48 years for the 10-year-old’s murder
The 35-year-old mother was convicted in December of depraved indifference murder.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Man in critical condition after being shot at Walmart in Scarborough
Police say the shooter and a female who was with him knew the man who was wounded in the store’s the parking lot, which was cordoned off with crime scene tape and scoured by investigators, including state police detectives.