The state is celebrating the bicentennial of its liberation from Massachusetts, with or without a party.
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Coronavirus latest: In U.S., coronavirus vaccine test opens with first doses
Four healthy volunteers are injected Monday with an experimental vaccine at a Seattle research institute.
The Maine Millennial: Hand-washing, social distancing are our ‘home front’ sacrifices
We will find out if we can pull together the way our forebears once did.
Restaurants double down on safety as coronavirus arrives in Maine
As concern over the virus grows, restaurants work to alleviate customers’ fears and to prepare themselves for what may come.
Maine island life in the age of coronavirus
Residents of Chebeague are accustomed to planning ahead and pulling together, but they are at the very end of critical supply chains.
Our View: Virus testing failure has consequences
Maine’s economy and the nation’s will take a beating because we didn’t prepare for this outbreak.
Georgia to postpone primaries over virus; 2nd state to do so
On Friday, Louisiana became the first state to postpone its presidential primaries due to the virus.
Brisk business, but little panic, at supermarket in Portland
There was a shortage of paper supplies and cough medicine, but shoppers stayed mostly upbeat Saturday following the first diagnoses of coronavirus in Maine.
Maine CDC reports three new likely coronavirus cases
It says the state now has three presumptive positive tests and three preliminary presumptive positive tests under review.
Maine Medical Center restricts visits amid coronavirus outbreak
The state’s largest hospital limits visitors to one per patient and will screen all visitors for sickness at the main entrance.