Today is Thursday. Temperatures will be in the low teens to high 20s from north to south, with the wind chill making it feel even icier, but there will be mostly sunny skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
A woman wears a mask while talking on the phone outside City Hall in Portland in this Dec. 11, 2020, file photo. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
The U.K. variant was detected in a sample from a Franklin County resident who had a recent history of international travel and developed virus symptoms in early February.
James Jarvis, senior physician executive of Northern Light Health’s COVID-19 response, gives a tour of the new vaccine clinic at the Cross Insurance Center on Feb. 1. Credit: Natalie Williams / BDN
The hospital network will open a second vaccination “pod” inside the city-owned arena, adding 20 tables and increasing staffing from 100 to 130 per shift. The vaccination site could eventually inoculate 5,000 people a day, six days a week.
Three excavators organize debris at the former Great Northern Paper Co. mill site in East Millinocket in this March 2017 photo. Credit: Nick Sambides Jr. / BDN
Standard Biocarbon Corp. will use low-grade wood traditionally harvested for papermaking or power generation to produce biocarbon.
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office will again have a full-time deputy stationed on Vinalhaven after a tumultuous year for the island community. Credit: Lauren Abbate / BDN
That comes after a year marked by a high-profile killing on the island that eroded trust between residents and law enforcement.
SAD 27 transportation director Peter Saucier stands next to a Valley Unified Regional Service Center bus. Credit: Jessica Potila / St. John Valley Times
The Maine State Board of Education voted to remove the Valley Unified Education Service Center Project from the state’s major capital school construction approved projects list with a vote of 7-0.
