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PublishedAugust 3, 2020
Bar Harbor hospital says at least 35 potential COVID-19 spreaders from other states have been in area
Out-of-state visitors took tests at home but didn’t learn they tested positive until they were in Maine and possibly interacting with others.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2020
Bar Harbor hospital sounds warning on undetected COVID-infected visitors
With long testing delays in other states, some learn they tested positive after starting vacations in Maine.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2020
With Maine tourism season here, growing number of out-of-state visitors are testing positive
Figures updated by the Maine CDC hours after the Press Herald reported that only outdated numbers were available show a near quadrupling in the pace of new cases in the last 11 days of June.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2019
Cold and seasick, crew member made 911 call that triggered search for Maine sailboat
The search near Mount Desert Island was called off after the Dove was located, but the 3 crew members eventually had to be rescued. Details of their interview with the Coast Guard were released Wednesday.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2019
Missing boaters from Maine were rescued off Virginia coast, Coast Guard says
The trio of boaters who disappeared off Mount Desert Island were picked up Nov. 19 by a cargo ship off Norfolk, Va., after their sailboat lost its mast.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2019
Details emerge about how Coast Guard tracked down sailboat from Maine
Coast Guard officials plan to interview the Dove's three crew members when the 40-foot yacht next makes port on its trip south.
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PublishedNovember 18, 2019
Coast Guard halts search after boaters report they’re fine and sailing south
One of the three people on the sailboat thought to be missing off Maine contacted a family member to say they were off Montauk, prompting the Coast Guard to end an extensive search that was triggered by a garbled 911 call.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2019
Aerial search for missing sailboat from Maine turns up nothing new
The Coast Guard conducted a massive search along the New England coast on Sunday but says it couldn't find the three people aboard the 40-foot Dove, which put out a distress call early Saturday off Mount Desert Island.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2019
Acadia National Park takes steps to add trails to national historic register
Only 5 trails on the entire East Coast have been given the federal designation to date.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2019
MDI man who went missing Saturday morning located in Presque Isle
Thornton Jenkins, 86, headed out to run some errands in his 2003 gray Ford Explorer and was due home at noon.
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