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Internet, wireless, cable, water and other companies say they are suspending shutoffs for nonpayment during the coronavirus outbreak, with some adding extra services to help Mainers get by.
John Bapst Memorial High School is the first Bangor area school to close due to the coronavirus.
Here’s a roundup of the latest COVID-19 news in Maine and New England.
The Centers for Disease Control recommend regularly cleaning the surfaces of your house to prevent its spread because evidence suggests that novel coronavirus may remain viable for hours to days on surfaces made from a variety of materials.
“I figured if we teach them how to build a fire, run a chainsaw [and] build their own house, they could run off and do whatever."
“I’m disappointed but there’s not a whole lot you can do about it. Public safety comes first,” said Maddy McVicar, a fifth-year senior on the women’s basketball team.
Maine Maple Sunday, an annual statewide event planned for March 22, is still going forward as planned, despite concerns about the new coronavirus. But some Maine sugarhouses are backing out.
Since the University of Maine System announced Wednesday that it will shift exclusively to online learning after spring break to fight the spread of coronavirus, professors at the flagship campus in Orono have been on a tight deadline to redesign their classes for remote instruction.
A natural foods co-op in Blue Hill is booming. A restaurant in Millinocket and a bakery in Belfast are closing temporarily. A family supermarket in Ellsworth has lost business.
The woods and waters of what is now Piscataquis and Aroostook counties were largely uncharted territory for the people of European descent in Maine in the years prior to statehood in 1820.
Having to stay home isn’t ideal, but it’s absolutely necessary, and it doesn’t have to be a total drag if you’re creative about it.
The global pandemic has already left its mark on the Maine lobster industry in the form of shrinking demand and dropping prices.
Only last week did the federal government give physicians more leeway to start sampling patients for the virus. And only late last week did Maine receive and start using its first batch of testing materials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which state officials have said will allow it to test about 1,000 individuals.
Here’s a roundup of today’s COVID-19 news in Maine and New England, as of 6 p.m.
Here is a quick primer on those questions based on guidance from both the United States Center for Disease Control and Maine Center for Disease Control.
A Franklin County resident allied with Central Maine Power asked a Maine court on Friday to overturn a decision by Secretary of State Matt Dunlap to green-light a question for the November ballot to kill the utility’s $1 billion hydropower corridor proposal.
Roughly half of all Mainers — particularly older residents and people in rural areas — are at risk of developing serious illnesses if they contract the new coronavirus, state health officials said.
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in an effort to bolster funding to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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