AUBURN — The real estate group Better Homes and Gardens/Masiello Group raised over $750 to purchase over 24 snowsuits, along with some hats and gloves to give to the Promise Early Education Center. These snowsuits and other items were picked up by the Executive Director Betsy Norcross Plourde.
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Posted inMaine colleges, Sports, UMaine Sports
UMaine gives its approval for home basketball games on campus
The UMaine men’s basketball team is scheduled to play a home series on Jan. 2-3 against New Hampshire – the first games on the Orono campus since March 8 – with no fans or media.
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Posted inElection 2020, Nation / World, Politics
McConnell blocks Senate Democrats’ initial effort to approve $2,000 stimulus checks
McConnell’s move was just the beginning of a saga that is likely to engulf the Senate for the rest of the week.
Posted inNation / World, New England
Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston
The optics of the statue that showed Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice.
Posted inNation / World
COVID-19 ‘not necessarily the big one,’ WHO warns
While the variant does not appear to be more deadly or vaccine-resistant, it does transmit faster.
Posted inNation / World
Judge blocks residency challenges to 4,000 Georgia voters
The challenges were part of an effort by the Texas-based conservative group True The Vote to coordinate challenges statewide under a Georgia law that allows any registered voter to challenge the eligibility of any other voter within the same county.
Posted inNation / World
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Croatia; at least 2 deaths reported
A strong earthquake in central Croatia has destroyed buildings in a town southeast of the capital and caused at least two deaths
Posted inNation / World
The Latest: Louisiana congressman-elect, 41, dies from COVID-19
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.
Posted inMaine, News
Doctor’s group calls for clinics to be used as COVID-19 vaccine sites
Maine reports 590 new cases and 7 more deaths, as shortfalls in expected vaccine deliveries complicate efforts to inoculate front-line health care workers and nursing home residents.