With most people vaccinated and infection rates dropping, the United States has entered a new phase of the pandemic in which people are adapting to the persistent presence of an endemic but usually nonlethal pathogen.
Carl Natale
Web editor for SunJournal.com
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Stockton Springs police officer arrested and accused of sexually assaulting a teen
Christopher C. Hast, 32, of Rockland, was working for the Stockton Springs Police Department and had also worked in other local law enforcement capacities.
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Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics
Voting is steady with no reported problems in Maine
Voting is steady as Mainers head to the polls to have their say on a 145-mile power line to serve as a conduit for Canadian hydropower and a constitutional amendment to enshrine residents’ right to grow, raise, harvest and produce their own food.
Posted inElections, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News, Oxford Hills, Politics, River Valley
Election stories from Tuesday night
Stories about how candidates and issues fared at the polls.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine gas prices rise 2.2 cents
Gas prices are continuing to rise in northern New England
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
American’s canceled flights portend messy holiday travel
For American Airlines, dominoes were toppled earlier this week when three out of the five runways at Dallas/Fort Worth International airport — its home base — were closed because of high wind.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion, Perspective
Shining some extra light on this Tuesday’s election
An almost biennial feature of Maine elections is a vote on a constitutional amendment. This year voters have an opportunity to amend the 201 year old document for the 175th time. The Food Sovereignty Constitutional Amendment The topic: An unusual one as its proponents seek to make the state the first in the country to […]
Posted inMaine, News
Halloween weather will be a treat for Maine
Temperatures in the 50s are expected Sunday evening.
Posted inHealth, Nation / World, News
What is the ‘delta plus’ variant of the coronavirus?
British officials have identified a relative of the delta variant
Posted inNation / World, News
How it happened: Inside movie set where Alec Baldwin’s gun fired
Accounts and images from court documents, interviews and social media postings have revealed much of what happened when actor Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on an Old West movie set in New Mexico