High school theater programs are still performing, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced different creativity and new approaches.
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Posted inNation & World
The Latest: California hospitalizations double summer peak
LOS ANGELES — Medical staffing is stretched increasingly thin as California hospitals scramble to find beds for patients amid an explosion of coronavirus cases that threatens to overwhelm the state’s emergency care system. As of Sunday, more than 16,840 people were hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 infections — more than double the previous peak reached in […]
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Posted inNation & World, Politics
Congress seals agreement on COVID relief, government funding
The House was expected to vote on the legislation very late Sunday or Monday and Senate action would follow.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine CDC reports 230 new coronavirus cases, no additional deaths
Maine added 3,000 cases in a week, and the seven-day average of new daily cases has reached 437.7.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Are fancy pans worth their weight?
These obscure kitchen tools will have to prove themselves to keep their spot on the shelf.
Posted inMaine, News
Getting vaccinated is just the first step for front-line hospital staff
After caring for COVID patients for nine months, the first ICU and ER workers inoculated at Maine Med are doing fine and hoping everyone keeps wearing masks and gets vaccinated, too, as soon as possible.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Maine, Morning Sentinel
J.P. Devine: The lady in white
This Christmas, as thousands of nurses and doctors in blue scrubs hold the hands of the millions of the dying, J.P. Devine is thinking of his mother in her starched white dress and cap, bringing a cupcake home.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-Eds, Opinion
The View From Here: Vaccination needs to win over skeptics
A coronavirus vaccine won’t work unless almost everyone takes it. Will they?
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Seaweed industry stays afloat, even gains during pandemic
Seaweed harvesting and farming, based largely along the coast of Maine, has found a way to grow during the crisis.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, News
Waterville youth center hands out 1,000 holiday meal bags
The pandemic is driving food insecurity in central Maine, according to officials at Alfond Youth and Community Center. “There is definitely a need for this, I mean, we saw that during Thanksgiving,” said Sawyer Boulette, wellness director.