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Calais native named general manager of Pacers’ affiliate basketball team

By Ernie Clark on Sep 17, 2021 06:01 pm
Calais native Chris Taylor sees similarities between his upbringing in Washington County and his work with the NBA’s Indiana Pacers organization in the nine years since he joined the franchise as a basketball operations assistant.
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High court judge says CMP affiliate must not work on disputed mile of corridor project

By Lori Valigra on Sep 17, 2021 05:49 pm
A judge on Maine’s high court ruled that a Central Maine Power Co. affiliate must refrain from work on public land on roughly one mile of its 145-mile hydropower corridor.
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Half of Bangor football team in quarantine due to COVID-19

By Ernie Clark on Sep 17, 2021 05:43 pm
The Bangor High School football team left campus Friday afternoon for an evening game at Scarborough with approximately half of the squad left behind to quarantine due to close contact with COVID-19 cases, according to athletic administrator Steve Vanidestine.
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Old Town High School to resume in-person classes Monday

By Sawyer Loftus on Sep 17, 2021 05:05 pm
A message posted on the school’s website Friday said students are expected to return to regularly scheduled classes Monday morning. 
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Stephens Memorial Hospital evacuated due to smoke

By Leela Stockley on Sep 17, 2021 04:37 pm
Although no active fire was found, firefighters and emergency personnel started evacuating patients after the fire was reported at around 3 p.m.
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West Bath step-father charged after 4-year-old fires gun into neighbor’s apartment

By CBS 13 on Sep 17, 2021 04:20 pm
A West Bath man has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after his 4-year-old stepson grabbed a gun off a dresser and fired a bullet into a neighbor’s apartment.
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US panel backs COVID-19 boosters only for elderly, high-risk

By The Associated Press on Sep 17, 2021 03:47 pm
An influential federal advisory panel has soundly rejected a plan to offer Pfizer booster shots against COVID-19 to most Americans.
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Pentagon reverses itself, calls deadly Kabul strike an error

By The Associated Press on Sep 17, 2021 03:31 pm
The Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing Friday that an internal review revealed that only civilians were killed in the attack, not an Islamic State extremist as first believed.
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MacKenzie Scott dominates donations to racial equity

By The Associated Press on Sep 17, 2021 03:09 pm
Scott, a 51-year-old novelist, received the bulk of her fortune from her 2019 divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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Caribou cancels marathon after hospital pulls medical support volunteers due to COVID-19 surge 

By Hannah Catlin on Sep 17, 2021 02:42 pm
Caribou has canceled its fifth marathon following a COVID-19 surge in Aroostook County that has left Cary Medical Center unable to spare enough nurses to act as health and safety volunteers at the race.
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