Today is Tuesday. Temperatures will be in the high 20s to low 40s from north to south, with sunny skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
New cases of COVID-19 are outpacing the state’s ability to contact trace. The spike means that the state will no longer continue to stay in touch with people who test positive for the disease beyond their first contact with state investigators, Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah said.
Northern Light Health’s main office in Brewer. Credit: Courtesy of Northern Light Health
Two prominent credit rating agencies have mostly stood by their assessments that the organization is generally on track to pay back its existing bond debt but could struggle with unanticipated operating challenges.
MDI High School of Bar Harbor. Credit: Nick Sambides Jr. / BDN
The school system on Mount Desert Island will become one of the first public school districts in Maine to regularly test employees for the coronavirus.
Jacqueline Mault and her father Greg Mault (left) move her items into Hart Hall at the beginning of the fall 2020 semester. The number of University of Maine System students testing positive for the coronavirus is spiking just days before students are to leave campus for Thanksgiving and finish the semester remotely. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
Active cases across the University of Maine System have increased tenfold in a month.
In this Nov. 13, 2020, file photo, shoppers comply with the mask regulations to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus at Bridgton Books in Bridgton. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Even as nonessential businesses reopened in July, careful shoppers still opted for curbside pickup, big grocery trips for enough food to last at least a couple weeks and stores where sanitizer is plentiful and staff and shoppers wear masks and physical distance.
University of Maine men’s head coach Richard Barron speaks to an official during a December 2019 basketball game against Connecticut. The Black Bears have been picked with Binghamton to finish last this season in the America East Conference. Credit: Jessica Hill / BDN
For a sense of the challenge facing the University of Maine men’s basketball team in its season opener against fourth-ranked Virginia, just listen to the music.
