Today is Tuesday. Temperatures will be in the 70s with a chance of thundersorms. Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

More than 2 dozen COVID-19 cases traced to Millinocket wedding reception

• More than two dozen cases of the coronavirus have been traced back to a wedding reception that took place at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket on Aug. 7, and more cases are expected, according to Millinocket Regional Hospital and state health officials. 

Focus on safety helps hundreds of Maine athletes play ball this summer

• B.L. Lippert is playing the waiting game this week like so many other high school coaches, players, parents and fans around Maine. All want to know if there will be a fall sports season amid the COVID-19 pandemic after spring interscholastic schedules were canceled.

Maine restaurants, hotels saw partial June recovery as virus restrictions relaxed

• June lodging and restaurant tax revenues in Maine rose under relaxed state government coronavirus restrictions, but they remained far below last year’s levels.
  

• Maine voters can now request an absentee ballot online for the November election, as concerns about voting by mail have grown here and across the country due to ongoing delays with the U.S. Postal Service.

Susan Collins joins critics of ‘politicization’ of Department of Homeland Security

• Former Republican leaders of Homeland Security, such as Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, are among the critics in the wake of a report from the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security that concludes that the department is not focusing on its original mission of helping protect the country from terrorism, and has become politicized.

• Maine lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against Securus Technologies alleging the company illegally intercepted confidential phone calls between attorneys and inmates at county jails in violation of state and federal wiretapping laws.

How to care for your reusable masks

• Masks, when combined with everyday preventive actions like hand washing and social distancing in public settings, have been shown to be effective to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Masks aren’t just magical solutions, though. They require proper use and upkeep — namely, cleaning — in order to be effective.

In other Maine news...

• Auburn man pleads not guilty to fatally stabbing victim 20 times in June

• Trump to Fox News: ‘I should win the state of Maine’

• Traces of fatal blue-green algae found in Damariscotta Lake