Local & State
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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
Happy 200th birthday to Maine, but virus zaps the celebration
The state is celebrating the bicentennial of its liberation from Massachusetts, with or without a party.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
Society Notebook: Contemporaries show true colors at Winter Bash
Unique styles were on display at the annual Portland Museum of Art event.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
Maine island life in the age of coronavirus
Residents of Chebeague are accustomed to planning ahead and pulling together, but they are at the very end of critical supply chains.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
On this date in Maine history: March 15
March 15, 1820: Maine is admitted to the Union as the 23rd U.S. state. It had been part of Massachusetts until then. William King (1768-1852), of Bath, is declared acting governor until elections can be held in April. King later wins that election. Statehood was achieved in Congress through the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Maine to become […]
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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
Colony, Chapter V: Liberation
The War of 1812 and Boston’s complacency toward foreign occupation fuel Maine's drive for statehood.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2020
Brisk business, but little panic, at supermarket in Portland
There was a shortage of paper supplies and cough medicine, but shoppers stayed mostly upbeat Saturday following the first diagnoses of coronavirus in Maine.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2020
Maine CDC reports three new likely coronavirus cases
It says the state now has three presumptive positive tests and three preliminary presumptive positive tests under review.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2020
Maine Medical Center restricts visits amid coronavirus outbreak
The state's largest hospital limits visitors to one per patient and will screen all visitors for sickness at the main entrance.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2020
Portland schools cancel SATs with little notice
School officials postponed Saturday morning's tests in response to the coronavirus, and it was an 'oversight' parents and kids weren't informed through the test administrator's website, the Portland High School principal says.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2020
How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
Among other legislation, the House passed the Divided Families Reunification Act, requiring the State Department to work with South Korea on attempts to reunite Korean Americans with their relatives in North Korea, either in person or by video.
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