Oct. 7, 1923: The first section of the Appalachian Trail opens in Bear Mountain and Harriman state parks in upstate New York, about 40 miles north of New York City. The brainchild of Benton MacKaye, the trail eventually grows to about 2,200 miles, with its northern terminus on Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest mountain. Civilian Conservation […]
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Texas officer charged with murder in Black man’s shooting
Wolfe City Police Officer Shaun Lucas fatally shot Jonathan Price, 22, at a convenience store in the small town northeast of Dallas.
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Presidential debate raises profile of deaf ASL interpreter in Maine
Regan Thibodeau, who is known for her work interpreting COVID-19 updates by the Maine CDC, is featured on social media after the first 2020 presidential debate.
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Farmington man in critical condition after crashing motorcycle
Brandon Bard, 21, was flown to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
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Most Bowdoin students will return to campus in February
In a change from the fall term, the Brunswick college said it will welcome sophomores, juniors, seniors and some freshman for the spring semester beginning Feb. 8.
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3 win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus
Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
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Maine reports 25 new cases of COVID-19, no additional deaths
York County, which has been a hotspot of COVID-19, had only 6 new cases on Monday.
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On this date in Maine history: Oct. 5
Oct. 5, 1785: In response to a notice published in the Falmouth Gazette, about 30 men from Cumberland, Lincoln and York counties gather at the meeting house of ministers Thomas Smith and Samuel Deane in Falmouth to discuss, for the first time in a formal setting, a proposal that Maine separate from Massachusetts to become […]
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Topsham woman helps shelter wildfire victims in California
Celeste Stimpson, a disaster program manager with the Topsham-based regional chapter of the American Red Cross, is in California working with hundreds of people who have evacuated or lost their homes in Pacer County after several weeks of wildfires.
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Fashion designer Kenzo Takada dies from COVID-19 at 81
His styles used bold color, clashing prints and were inspired by travels all over the world.