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Secret Service agents, doctors aghast at Trump’s drive outside hospital

by Josh Dawsey, Carol D. Leonnig, Hannah Knowles The Washington Post October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

‘Where are the adults?’ said a former Secret Service member.

Bicentennial, Maine, News, Uncategorized

On this date in Maine history: Oct. 5

by Joseph Owen October 5, 2020October 4, 2020

Oct. 5, 1785: In response to a notice published in the Falmouth Gazette, about 30 men from Cumberland, Lincoln and York counties gather at the meeting house of ministers Thomas Smith and Samuel Deane in Falmouth to discuss, for the first time in a formal setting, a proposal that Maine separate from Massachusetts to become […]

Times Record, Uncategorized

Topsham woman helps shelter wildfire victims in California

by Darcie Moore October 4, 2020October 5, 2020

Celeste Stimpson, a disaster program manager with the Topsham-based regional chapter of the American Red Cross, is in California working with hundreds of people who have evacuated or lost their homes in Pacer County after several weeks of wildfires.

Maine, News, Uncategorized

New Hampshire man killed in Old Orchard Beach train accident

by Rob Wolfe October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

William Grizzaffi, 52, of Lebanon, N.H., was hit by an Amtrak train on Saturday night, police say.

Maine, News, Uncategorized

Maine CDC reports 36 new coronavirus cases, no additional deaths

by Rob Wolfe October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

The state had 595 active cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, 14 more than the day before.

Maine, News, Uncategorized

Collins says she tested negative for COVID-19

by Rob Wolfe October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

Three other Republican senators have recently tested positive for the disease.

Maine, News, Politics, Uncategorized

Maine Republicans flout CDC guidelines at campaign events

by Eric Russell October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

Two recent events, one in Bangor, another in Saco, show attendees indoors, not wearing masks and not social distancing.

Bicentennial, Maine, News, Uncategorized

On this date in Maine history: Oct. 4

by Joseph Owen October 4, 2020October 4, 2020

Oct. 4, 1992: Portland is granted an Eastern League minor league baseball expansion team. The Portland Sea Dogs begin playing April 7, 1994, as a double-A affiliate of the Florida Marlins. They make the playoffs for the first time in 1995. In 2003 the team becomes a Boston Red Sox affiliate. The team wins the […]

Nation & World, Uncategorized

The Latest: Biden urged governors not to endorse him out of fear they’d lose federal funding

by The Associated Press October 3, 2020October 4, 2020

Joe Biden says he urged some governors who wanted to endorse his presidential campaign to refrain from doing so because the Trump administration might retaliate by withholding medical supplies critical to COVID-19 relief. Addressing a virtual town hall of the Amalgamated Transit Union town hall from Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday, Biden said, “I probably shouldn’t […]

Maine, News, Uncategorized

Maine CDC reports 27 new coronavirus cases, no additional deaths

by Rob Wolfe October 3, 2020October 3, 2020

The nation’s biggest coronavirus story this weekend is President Trump’s diagnosis with COVID-19, which led him to check in to a military hospital in suburban D.C.