by Barbara A. Walsh | September 27, 2020
SANFORD — Yellow caution tape winds around empty playgrounds, ball fields and basketball courts. Schools, no longer safe for in-person learning, are shut down. Outbreaks at social clubs, schools, fire departments and local businesses continue to spike. Like seeds in...
by Barbara A. Walsh | August 31, 2020
As news broke about Calvary Baptist Church’s COVID-19 outbreak, Pastor Todd Bell shined his black shoes. Before the Sanford reverend spoke to his church, Bell took a picture of his polished wingtips and his leather-bound black Bible resting on the corner of his desk. ...
by Rose Lundy | August 9, 2020
During the past five months of the coronavirus pandemic, Mainers and other Americans have been inundated with numbers. Confirmed COVID-19 cases per capita. Death rates. Test positivity rates. Hospitalization rates. Available ICU beds. There is a staggering number of...
by Barbara A. Walsh | August 9, 2020
Janet Mills weighed the life-changing decision. A month before her 15th birthday, Janet, her parents and two of her siblings traveled in the family station wagon from their Farmington, Maine, home to the A. I. duPont Institute for Crippled Children in Wilmington,...
by Barbara A. Walsh | June 20, 2019
One of Gov. Janet Mills’ early initiatives was creating a position to combat Maine’s opioid epidemic and naming Gordon Smith, executive vice president of the Maine Medical Association, as Director of Opioid Response. As a follow-up to our Born to Drugs: Maine’s Most...
