The state also says that vaccinations will begin next week for Maine prison inmates who are 60 or older.
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Posted inNew England Patriots, Sports
Bill Belichick, Patriots go all-in on Day 1 of NFL free agency
Uncharacteristically, New England spends nearly $200 million on free agents to address holes on both offense and defense.
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Posted inKennebunk Post
Organizations collaborate to offer Kennebunk vaccine clinic for people 60 and older
To schedule an appointment for the March 22 clinic, call Southern Maine Agency on Aging at 396-6500 and choose option 1.
Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
Kennebunk residents may pay fee for beach permits this year
Residents would pay $5 for each beach parking permit, rather than the current system of the first for free, second at $5 and the third at $10.
Posted inThe Forecaster
Portland Meetings: March 17-24
Visit portlandmaine.gov for Zoom information. To watch municipal meetings online, go to townhallstreams.com/towns/portland_maine. Wed. 3/17 7:30 a.m. Nominating Committee Wed. 3/17 4 p.m. Public Art Committee Wed. 3/17 5 p.m. Historic Preservation Board Wed. 3/17 5:30 p.m. Sustainability and Transportation Committee Thur. 3/18 9 a.m. Emergency Shelter Assessment Committee Thur. 3/18 4 p.m. Portland Development […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Through My Lens: Heal trauma from Black deaths with community support
This is the one-year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death, and soon it will be George Floyd’s one-year anniversary. The traumas American Blacks experienced from the 2020 events continue to ripple through Black houses this year. Young Black girls and women see Taylor in the mirror every day, and the Black men, including myself, see Floyd, […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Mainewhile: The end may be near for daylight saving time
“Beware the Ides of March” warned the soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. For ancient Romans, the Ides (the 15th on the calendar) was bad luck because it was the day for paying off debts. For Caesar, it was a reckoning of another sort: he was assassinated. Changing up the clocks might not exactly equal Caesar’s […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Higher value won’t necessarily boost tax bill
Letter writer Samuel Rosenthal (March 12) falls victim to a common misunderstanding about how property tax reassessments work. The goal is fairness, so what is actually being reset is your property’s new valuation relative to all the other new valuations. Following the reassessments, this is done by recalculating the tax rate so that the total […]
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Crisis far from over for Maine women suffering prolonged unemployment
The state lost more than 48,000 jobs from February to December of last year, and women held 57% of those jobs. The crisis has drawn attention to systemic inequities for Maine’s working women.