Today is Friday. Temperatures will be in the high 60s to low 70s, with partly sunny skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
While workers are still required to be vaccinated by Oct. 1, the state will not begin enforcing the rule until Oct. 29, allowing employers to keep unvaccinated workers on the job and delaying state enforcement actions that could affect facilities’ licensing.
Maine is on track to have its deadliest year of the opioid epidemic in 2021 — an average of 51 people are dying every month from overdoses. Since January, 16 people have died of an overdose in Aroostook County, just one less person than in the entire 2020 calendar year.
While attempting to get a novel angle, a daredevil newsreel cameraman lashed himself beneath a bouquet of hydrogen-filled balloons 84 years ago this month.
Then he floated away into the skies above Old Orchard Beach.
It took guts to get up there but, when his tether failed, it took a priest with mad marksmanship skills to get him back down.
Lauren Smith Kennedy’s portraits of gray-muzzled dogs and dignified-but-rickety old cats — and the humans who love them — are suffused with sublime emotion.
Five of the 37 varsity football games scheduled this week have been canceled as positive COVID-19 tests and related contact tracing have forced team members into a quarantine period. The emergence of the delta variant of the virus has caused a spike in Maine cases, with Thursday’s daily statewide count surging to 624.
The park — an expansive concrete rectangle with built-in features including ramps, grind rails, a quarter pipe and other elevations — is located between Mansfield Stadium and 13th Street, and is a massive improvement over the old skate park off Union Street — which was meant to be temporary when it was installed in 2011.
State regulators are calling a public hearing on whether they should pull the license they issued for Central Maine Power’s transmission line through western Maine.
She criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to leave it in place amid outcry from abortion-rights activists who decried the senator’s 2018 vote to confirm a conservative justice.
The plane, a C-17 based out of Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, South Carolina, departed Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Monday night, and made the long flight back to the U.S. over the course of several days.
