A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 – roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta.
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Posted inMaine
Fishing derby in Canaan kicks off weeklong Somerset SnowFest
SnowFest includes a series of activities, including the only equestrian skijoring race in the Northeast which involves a horse and rider pulling a snowboarder or an Alpine skier down a 1,000-foot track of gates and jumps.
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Posted inMaine, News
Maine CDC reports 131 new COVID-19 cases, no additional deaths
Maine’s case numbers continue to fall as residents take precautions and vaccine distribution ramps up.
Posted inNews
With right attitude and outerwear, the fun of dining outside in winter outweighs the drawbacks
The pandemic has led some restaurants to extend outdoor dining long past the usual season, appealing to diners with heated patios and private chalets. We explore the al fresco experience when the temperature dips.
Posted inMaine, Schools & Education
For college freshmen, campus life can be lonely amid pandemic restrictions
Social distancing, online classes and mask wearing add to the stress of being a new student in Maine, and some campus counseling centers are seeing different and more acute complaints because of the coronavirus.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine eligibility guidelines for COVID-19 vaccine confuse, frustrate
Contradictions and exceptions within an evolving set of rollout rules trouble vaccine providers and those still waiting for their shots, but some in the field say they appreciate a degree of flexibility.
Posted inOp-Eds, Perspective
What last year’s vote may tell us about the vaccination debate today
We love our anniversaries. Newspapers typically feature them as in century and half century retrospectives. So, let’s now turn the clock back a bit, not 100 or even 50 years but just one year ago. It’s late February 2020, the time when the first cases of community transmission of the coronavirus were reported in the […]
Posted inHealth, Perspective
Biden’s vaccine push runs into distrust in the Black community
As Biden pushes his vaccine campaign, he faces a deep-seated distrust of the medical establishment among Black communities that have long faced mistreatment at its hands.
Posted inNation / World
Pope hails health workers on COVID anniversary
Italy has over 95,000 known dead, the second-highest virus toll in Europe after Britain.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
Pandemic makes prostitution taboo in Nevada’s legal brothels
Many licensed prostitutes opt to take their work into the shadows, offering sex illegally.