Nick Isgro says he wants the city’s COVID-19 Task Force to ask the City Council to lift the ban on plastic, disposable shopping bags and to temporarily prohibit the use of reusable shopping bags.
COVID-19
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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.
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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.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Virus outbreak disrupts at-risk Mainers’ access to food
We must rally now to keep our vulnerable neighbors healthy, and work to make nutrition insecurity a thing of the past.
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Bill Nemitz: As virus spreads, keep your distance from older Mainers but don’t leave them isolated
A COVID-19 dilemma: How do we support our most vulnerable neighbors without infecting them.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Everyone has a role to play in limiting spread of coronavirus
It’s time for Mainers to show what good neighbors we are.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
It is uncertain whether Bath Iron Works would halt production in face of COVID-19
BIW brought an undisclosed number of employees in Yokosuka, Japan home who were assigned to help repair and update destroyers at the naval base. The employees must spend two weeks in quarantine before returning to work.
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Commentary: On coronavirus, US must shift from containment to aggressive mitigation
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Bill Nemitz: For Portland nonprofit, saving the world just got a lot tougher
Partners for World Health, a lifeline for those in desperate need of medical supplies and services, now grapples with the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
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Maine to vote on stricter law about vaccine requirements
Mainers are mulling whether to toss aside a law that eliminates most exemptions for childhood vaccinations against the backdrop of a global rush to contain a virus for which there is no vaccine