Today is Thursday. Temperatures will be in the mid- to high 40s from north to south, with cloudy skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
A cutout of former President John F. Kennedy occupies a seat next to seventh grader Reilly Sullivan at the Bruce M. Whittier Middle School in Poland as teacher Logan Landry looks on in January. Some Maine school districts have taken more proactive approaches than others to helping their teachers get their COVID-19 vaccines. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Some school districts are taking proactive steps to ensure staff have access to doses, while others are leaving it up to staff to seek immunization on their own.
An empty parking lot in the South Pointe business complex is seen in this Feb. 22, 2021, file photo, in Cecil Township, Pennsylvania. After almost a year, many businesses are still allowing employees to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Andrew Rush / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP
The first pole was raised in the NECEC hydropower corridor in The Forks on Feb. 9, 2021. Credit: BDN file
Central Maine Power’s hydropower corridor was dealt another potential delay Wednesday after a Superior Court judge ruled the state must determine whether the $1 billion project will alter the land it crosses. If so, the Legislature would need to approve those leases.
This map shows the Frenchman Bay Community Forest broken up into two sections: the 1,400-acre parcel purchased by Frenchman Bay Conservancy and the 3,500-acre parcel conserved by the New England Forestry Foundation. Credit: Courtesy of Frenchman Bay Conservancy
A new network of trails and outdoor gathering spaces will soon be available just 5 miles from downtown Ellsworth.
Jonathan Nathaniel Hayes and his team of Seppala sled dogs cross Moosehead Lake during a week long expedition to honor the famed sled dog Togo. Credit: Courtesy of Tony Loiko
The late Dr. Robert Hand’s Schimmel grand piano will be auctioned off this weekend, to benefit the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. Credit: Courtesy of Bangor Symphony Orchestra
As a lifelong lover of music, Robert Hand wasn’t just looking for any old piano. He needed the perfect piano.
The sorting equipment at Fiberight’s new plant in Hampden — a facility that it calls Coastal Resources of Maine — removes items that it can sell on the recycling market before converting the remaining waste into biofuel and other materials in 2019. Credit: Courtesy of Fiberght
Pennsylvania-based Delta Thermo Energy has been in negotiations to purchase the $90 million Coastal Resources of Maine plant in Hampden for several months. The goal was to close the deal by the end of March, but “fundamental differences” mean that is no longer possible.
In this Jan. 10, 2021, file photo, Pavel Dokukin of Augusta and Jennifer Crowley of Hampden join demonstrators in downtown Belfast to protest pandemic restrictions. Credit: Abigail Curtis / BDN
Belfast city councilors amended the city’s noise ordinance to include megaphones, along with other types of amplified noise.
One big buck gives the trail camera a second look while another buck looks for potential threats coming from the other direction. Credit: Courtesy of Mark Weis
This big buck seems to know something’s not right.
