If we don’t want our kids to act out, be selfish or refuse to listen to instructions, then we shouldn’t behave that way, either.
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Posted inBill Nemitz, Maine, News, Op-Eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: COVID-19 is highly contagious. So is stupidity.
Last week’s rally in Augusta took the anti-COVID-19 vaccine movement to new lows.
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Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
10% of Maine child care centers closed during the pandemic, threatening ‘the workforce behind the workforce,’ experts say
With Maine child care facilities closing and financial pressure on those still open, concerns rise that parents won’t be able to return to work.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
A longtime nurse in Lewiston vows to quit her job rather than get the shot
Defying expert advice, Annette Roy said she won’t get vaccinated as ordered because it is too dangerous to inject “a poison into my arm.”
Posted inMaine
Maine CDC reports 205 COVID-19 cases, two deaths
The seven-day average reaches 160.1 new cases on Saturday.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Teacher vaccination mandates enacted in some states, but not in the works in Maine
Superintendents and teachers union representatives in several Maine districts said they aren’t discussing vaccination mandates and many believe the staff vaccination rate is high enough to make mandates unnecessary.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Maine, News
Abbott Laboratories disputes report that it told Maine workers to toss millions of COVID-19 tests
The company, which has plants in Westbrook and Scarborough, reportedly disposed of rapid antigen tests as cases declined and just before the delta variant created a huge new need for them.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine poised to get full FDA approval next week
President Biden has called for approval, believing it will ease doubts about the vaccine and give firmer footing for companies and schools to require inoculations.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Schools and Education
Gardiner-area school district mandates masks, creates COVID-19 response committee
More than 300 people tuned in to the school board’s livestreamed meeting Thursday night, and the meeting was moved to the Little Theater at Gardiner Area High School in response to the large in-person crowd.
Posted inNation & World
U.S. appeals court refuses to end CDC’s eviction moratorium
The realtors who sued are likely to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which voted 5-4 in June to allow an earlier moratorium to continue only through the end of July.