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Op-eds, Opinion

Commentary: Work-from-home struggles are employers’ problem too

July 21, 2020July 20, 2020

Managers will have to prepare for a workforce stuck at home if schools don’t reopen.

Editorials, Opinion

Our View: School plan gives a way forward

by The Editorial Board July 20, 2020July 20, 2020

A flexible framework that ties school reopening to local risk factors makes sense for Maine.

Op-eds, Opinion

Insight: Fear of flying is a COVID symptom

by Greg Kesich July 19, 2020July 18, 2020

Airlines were able to bring back their customers soon after the 9/11 attacks, but recovering from the pandemic might not be so easy.

Maine, News, Schools and Education

Superintendents welcome guidelines, see parents’ support as key to reopening

by Scott Thistle and Rachel Ohm July 17, 2020July 17, 2020

Three administrators in southern Maine say the state’s blueprint will inform how schools approach reopening in the fall.

The Forecaster

Falmouth FD awarded COVID-19 grant funds

July 17, 2020

Money will help them purchase PPE in response to the pandemic.

Arts & Entertainment, Maine

One Longfellow Square raises $175,000 to stay in business

by Emma Sorkin Staff Writer July 17, 2020July 17, 2020

The nonprofit performing arts and concert venue in Portland has reached its second fundraising goal after the pandemic battered its finances.

Arts & Entertainment, Maine

Yarmouth music center receives grant from The Lewis Prize for Music

by Emma Sorkin Staff Writer July 16, 2020July 16, 2020

317 Main Community Center receives $50,000 in funding to support youth music education during COVID-19.

The Forecaster

SoPo schools still reviewing plans for fall re-opening

July 16, 2020

SOUTH PORTLAND—The South Portland School Department is working on not one, but three possible plans for the 2020-2021 school year, according to Superintendent Ken Kunin. “We have described a full return to in person education, a continuation of distance learning and some in between blend of the two,” Kunin said in an advisory to the […]