by Rose Lundy | January 24, 2021
Vaccination efforts across rural Maine to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic are going as well as could be expected, according to emergency management officials in eight northern counties, but plans for future phases remain fuzzy. And at least one official is frustrated...
by Steve Solloway | January 24, 2021
The memories of seven long weeks working as a traveling nurse in a New York hospital settle in Julie Byron’s mind almost daily. Scenes of patients fighting for life and losing to death. The sweet moments of joy and numbing emptiness of sorrow. The fatigue. Byron, a...
by Rose Lundy | January 10, 2021
More people in Maine now have been vaccinated for COVID-19 than have had the virus. About 46,600 Mainers were vaccinated as of Friday, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That represents nearly 3.5 percent of the state’s population. At...
by Barbara A. Walsh | December 20, 2020
Pastor Dan Blevins started feeling ill the night before Thanksgiving. He had bouts of fever and chills. “I couldn’t shake it, and it continued through Thanksgiving Day,” said Blevins, minister of the Stetson United Methodist Church. Earlier that week, the 71-year-old...
by Barbara A. Walsh | December 20, 2020
The angel appeared on the cold Camden sidewalk. Chef Jordan Benissan stood outside his restaurant after another dismal night of business. As COVID-19 infections surged, customers disappeared. Benissan’s staff had shrunk to himself and a dishwasher. He worried about...
