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However, the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Hospital has been identified as the site of an outbreak, and 22 people have tested positive for COVID-19 at the facility since Sept. 8.
As the state continues to battle the highly contagious delta variant, the Portland City Council voted on Monday to adopt a more aggressive public relations campaign to encourage masking and social distancing, rather than adopt a citywide mask mandate.
In a split decision issued Friday, two of three judges agreed that the officers could be sued for knocking on the bedroom window of Christopher French, 26, and yelling for him to come out to speak with them.
The city’s government operations committee unanimously voted on Monday to rename Second Street Park after Gerald Talbot, a longtime civil rights leader and the first Black person to serve in the Maine Legislature.
The newly built complex will provide stable housing for those most at risk locally, Penquis Housing Development Director Jason Bird said, including those facing foreclosure, an abusive household or mobility challenges.
The two friends set off from the Maine side of the Piscataqua River Bridge on Labor Day for the 12-day expedition, which ended at the America’s First Mile Monument in Fort Kent.
