New Hampshire leads in percentage of adults vaccinated, and following close behind are New Mexico, Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts at 55% or greater. All have a history of voting Democratic.
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Posted inLakes Region Weekly
New Gloucester ballfield project not a hit with some neighbors
The Royal River Conservation Trust and Gray-New Gloucester Little League are in the early stages of plans for their pending purchase of 180 acres off Intervale Road.
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Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Community rallies to clean up Windham parks, trails
A number of residents have volunteered for some May cleanups.
Posted inSports
MLB notebook: Atlantic League to experiment with pitcher’s mound pushed back to 61 feet, 6 inches
Major League Baseball will use the independent Atlantic League – starting Aug. 3 – to see if backing up the pitcher’s rubber one foot will increase offense and decrease strikeouts.
Posted inBoston Red Sox, Sports
Red Sox notebook: Top pitching prospect Bryan Mata undergoes Tommy John surgery
Mata, who didn’t pitch in a game last year because of the pandemic, now will miss a second straight season.
Posted inCoastal Journal
Anonymous donor offers welcome boost to Independence Association
The Brunswick-based nonprofit assists people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Posted inSports
NHL roundup: Buffalo’s Eichel out for rest of season with neck injury
Sabres captain Jack Eichel will not play the rest of this season with a neck injury, but should be healthy for the start of next season.
Posted inTimes Record
Downeaster to return Brunswick-to-Boston rail service to pre-COVID levels
The expanded schedule will include a new southbound train that will depart Brunswick mid-morning and a new northbound train that will depart Boston mid-afternoon.
Posted inTimes Record
Bath high school returns to in-person learning after COVID-19 outbreak
RSU 1 Superintendent Patrick Manuel credited the school’s recent COVID-19 cases to community transmission rather than in-school transmission.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Maine-based Puritan to open COVID-19 swab factory in Tennessee
The project will result in 625 jobs over the next five years in that state.