Emily joined the Sun Journal in April 2021 on the health beat. She previously reported for the Lakes Region Weekly, covering nine towns in Cumberland County. She enjoys taste testing chai lattes at local cafes, attempting to beat her personal best on the NYT’s mini crossword puzzle and watching thunderstorms. She’s on the fence about the Oxford comma. Emily grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from Wellesley College in 2018. She’s lived in lots of places for little bits of time but now calls Portland home. She welcomes coffee shop recommendations, cookie recipes and news tips in her inbox.
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PublishedJune 13, 2021
Face Time: Andrew Sharp, Bradbury Mountain’s spring hawk watcher
Fresh out of graduate school with a master’s degree in ecology from Utah State University, Andrew Sharp was figuring out his next steps when he found a job as Bradbury Mountain’s official hawk watcher for the 2021 migration season this past spring. The Chesterfield, Virginia, native just wrapped up a three-month, six-days-a-week stint perched atop […]
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PublishedJune 11, 2021
Oxford County reports no new cases of COVID-19 for first time in more than 5 months
Meanwhile, Franklin County was among just four counties that saw an increase in the seven-day rolling average of new COVID-19 cases per capita over the past week.
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PublishedJune 10, 2021
Relief for providers at Lewiston’s Central Maine Medical Center as COVID-19 hospitalizations remain low
CMMC’s chief of hospital medicine said Thursday she hadn’t seen such low numbers since before the surge in COVID-19 cases last winter.
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PublishedJune 9, 2021
Deaths of central and western Maine residents related to COVID-19 continue to decline
State health officials last reported that a resident or Androscoggin or Oxford counties dying from COVID-19 last week. And in Franklin County, it’s been nearly a month since a resident there died from the disease.
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PublishedJune 8, 2021
Browntail moth caterpillars already a big nuisance in Androscoggin County
Not only are the number of caterpillars increasing, but researchers are finding populations in central and western Maine for the first time since the caterpillars were identified in the state over 100 years ago.
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PublishedJune 7, 2021
The heat wave crashes over Lewiston-Auburn as temperatures spike and cooling centers open
In Lewiston-Auburn, temperatures hit at least 91 degrees Monday, prompting a warning from the National Weather Service that conditions could be dangerous for some people.
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PublishedJune 6, 2021
Shortage of psychiatrists in Maine causing a ‘crisis’
PORTLAND – Dr. Joan Leitzer, a Portland-based psychiatrist, has been “retiring for months.” “I am doing it the old-fashioned way,” she said, and is working to get each of the approximately 60 patients in her practice transferred to a new provider before she retires. But psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners and other mental and behavioral health […]
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PublishedJune 3, 2021
With state shift in vaccination strategy, fewer options for tri-county residents to get shots
State health officials announce the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s mobile vaccination unit will be diverted from Rangeley and Rumford to higher-volume sites in Portland and Old Orchard Beach.
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PublishedJune 2, 2021
State health officials report an Androscoggin County resident died with COVID-19
CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah: Downward COVID-19 trends are ‘encouraging,’ but ‘more work to do’
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PublishedJune 1, 2021
Vaccination rates remain stagnant even as new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations decline
Lewiston’s Central Maine Medical Center reported no confirmed COVID-19 inpatients in critical care Monday and Tuesday, a first since March.
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