Today is Monday. Temperatures will be in the high 30s to low 40s from north to south, with rain and snow throughout the statewide. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
Mark Lipscombe (left) and his wife Nina stand in front of their residence, located on Main Street in Houlton. Mark, who is from Australia, and Nina, who is from Tennessee, are an example of the newcomers arriving to Aroostook County following the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Alexander MacDougall / Houlton Pioneer Times
No one could have guessed before the pandemic that Maine’s most rural counties would become the hottest real estate markets in the state.
In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, Maine Health Senior Pharmacy Director Andrea Lai gives Alice Goshorn, 78, of South Portland a COVID-19 vaccination shot inside the former Scarborough Downs horse racing track. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
The age-based system replaces a previous plan to prioritize adults with underlying conditions as well as some frontline workers after Mainers age 70 and older who are currently eligible, and would be the only one in the country exactly like it.
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden hikes up Black Mountain in Rumford in this Aug. 20, 2020, file photo. The second-term congressman from Maine’s 2nd District was one of two Democrats to oppose his party’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid package early Saturday.
The $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill still easily cleared the chamber in an early win for President Joe Biden.
A post on Snowmobile Northern Maine’s Facebook page shows this 75-foot diameter ice carousel created on Long Lake in Sinclair in April 2017. Credit: Courtesy of Snowmobile Northern Maine
Roger Morneault, a licensed master plumber from St. Agatha, has designed an ice cutting machine and ice disc spinner he hopes will help Maine reclaim the title.
Carine Reeves appears at his murder trial at the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor in September 2020. Reeves’ trial was one of the few jury trials that have taken place since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Natalie Williams / BDN
That’s likely the result of prosecutors in those two counties continuing to file more charges than their counterparts elsewhere, and offering defendants fewer favorable plea deals to resolve cases.
Siblings Lyndsee Reed, a sophomore, and Eli Reed, a senior, walk in to Hermon High School together for one of their in-person school days in this Sept. 30, 2020, file photo. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
The new track would be built on unused land next to the tennis courts at Hermon High School. As part of the $2.2 million project, the town would also renovate Pottle Field, where Hermon High athletes play soccer and football, and add a storage building and bleachers.
