‘There’s no room to absorb additional costs’ in Maine’s health care system, one health care executive says.
Life & Culture
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Posted inHealth, Maine, Politics
Maine lawmakers urged to keep children from languishing in hospital emergency departments
A bill sponsored by Sen. Joseph Baldacci, D-Bangor, would create 3 ‘crisis centers’ to reduce the number of children stuck in hospitals with no place to go.
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Society Notebook: Furniture Friends’ Slumber Party fundraises to provide the basics
In 2024 alone, the nonprofit distributed more than 1,000 beds and 5,600 other pieces of furniture to 900 households in Greater Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Weakened Friends rips into Natalie Imbruglia’s ’90s hit ‘Torn’
The Portland band has been playing the song live for about a year and decided to record it.
Posted inDo This, Food, Life & Culture
Throwback photos: Girl Scout cookie sales of the ’50s and ’60s
With the arrival of spring also comes another ritual of the season: Girl Scout cookie sales. Take a look at some of our photos of Girl Scout cookie sales from the 1950s and ’60s: See more photos of life in Maine from our archives here.
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Get tickets now for Maine Roller Derby and Ray LaMontagne in Portland
You can also make plans to head to Monmouth in April to see the musical ‘Ride the Cyclone.’
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Yarmouth filmmaker talks about Portland radio documentary
Tom Bell’s award-winning film “An Extraordinary Place,” will screen on April 1 at the University of Southern Maine.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Doctors, patients finding relief by switching to direct primary care physicians
Though providers and patients in direct primary care prefer the model, it does not replace all medical services.
Posted inHealth, Maine
Tick activity surges in Maine with arrival of warmer weather
If you spot a tick right now, it’s most likely an adult deer tick, which can transmit Lyme disease.
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Filmmaker’s ‘Eephus’ shows the complicated joys of playing America’s pastime
The debut film from director and co-writer Carson Lund understands the complicated joys that come from playing the game you love long past the time you should have given it up.