While the shipyard hasn’t halted production, despite calls to do so from union leaders and politicians, BIW leadership extended its unpaid leave offer to employees through April 10.
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State
Some raise concern that Augusta schools not doing enough to educate in pandemic
Online learning a challenge because not all students, families have devices or internet connections.
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Posted inElections, Local & State, Politics
Eric Brakey denounces $2.2 trillion relief bill as a ‘rotten deal for the American people’
Eric Brakey is alone among the three Republicans in Maine’s 2nd District congressional primary in rejecting the compromise bill that won unanimous backing in the U.S. Senate.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn
Lewiston manufacturer creates WeHaveFaceMasks.com to sell cotton masks at cost
Allen Manufacturing has a dozen stitchers sewing thousands of masks and shipping all over the country.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Massachusetts man says on radio he’s positive for coronavirus, quarantined in Somerset County
The Maine Center for Disease Control says the man’s case wouldn’t be counted for Somerset County, which remained at zero confirmed cases as of Thursday, because federal rules go by a person’s primary residence.
Posted inLocal & State, Morning Sentinel
Coronavirus testing site operating in Waterville
Northern Light Inland Hospital operates its Medical Screening Site in the parking lot of Faith Evangelical Free Church from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday through Sunday this week, with hours to possibly change next week.
Posted inNation & World
World leaders vow to coordinate virus response in virtual G20 summit
‘We are at war with a virus – and not winning it,’ the head of the United Nations told leaders of the world’s 20 major industrialized nations.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State
Augusta orders all nonessential businesses to close
The order, in effect Friday at noon, directs all nonessential businesses — even those not open to the public — to shut down due to concerns of spreading coronavirus.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
If you don’t laugh, you cry: Coping with virus through humor
It may be a little awkward, but humor is helping people around the planet cope with the fear and anxiety the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed.
Posted inBusiness, Kennebec Journal, Local & State
Augusta’s J.S. McCarthy remains open for business following layoffs
The commercial printer in Augusta issued a statement Wednesday to say it continues to operate as an essential business, using new public health directives to slow the spread of coronavirus.