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32 Buckfield Junior-Senior High School seniors honored at outdoor graduation ceremony

by Nicole Carter June 13, 2020June 15, 2020

BUCKFIELD — Car horns, applause and cheers filled the air at Buckfield Junior-Senior High School as its 32 seniors were honored at their graduation ceremony Saturday afternoon. The graduation was held outside with social distancing practices to ensure that no more than 50 participants were in proximity to each other at any one time. Family […]

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Some towns to open summer day camps and youth sports programs

by Tony Blasi June 13, 2020April 2, 2021

But towns like Paris have decided to cancel their summer programs after weighing the risks of community spread from COVID-19.

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Business, Nation / World

Company agrees to make COVID-19 vaccine for Europe

by DANICA KIRKA Associated Press June 13, 2020June 15, 2020

Pharma giant AstraZeneca has struck a deal to supply up to 400 million doses of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine to European Union countries.

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Nation / World

France has millions of unsold face masks after virus crisis

by THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press June 13, 2020June 15, 2020

The French praised the altruism of their prized textile and luxury goods companies for diverting their production facilities to the cause.

Nation / World

Spate of new research supports wearing masks to control coronavirus spread

by Ben Guarino, Chelsea Janes and Ariana Eunjung Cha The Washington Post June 13, 2020June 15, 2020

The gold standard in science – a randomized, double-blinded controlled trial – is impossible to conduct in a pandemic, so researchers have turned to other analyses.