Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap says the election that was conducted safely despite the pandemic.
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USM hoping to play some games this winter
The Huskies will set up their own COVID testing lab on campus and play a limited schedule, but only if conditions during the pandemic allow it.
Junior hockey notes: Twin City Thunder secure a dormitory in Hallowell
Twin City will house about half of its NCDC and Premier players in a dorm next season. Also, another schedule change for the NCDC team, and former Thunder player Levente Keresztes makes Division I commitment.
MLB notebook: Red Sox, Rodriguez agree to one-year, $8.3 million deal to avoid arbitration
Left-handed starter Eduardo Rodriguez, sixth in AL Cy Young voting in 2019, did not play in the shortened 2020 season after a brutal bout with COVID-19.
Thousands of Midcoast residents in the dark following storm
Towns like Harpswell remained completely without power Tuesday morning, causing Maine School Administrative District 75 to cancel school at Harpswell Community School.
Photos: Heavy rains fill ponds, rivers in Franklin County
Franklin County EMA Director Tim Hardy said he was only aware of one area that was flooded and that was on George Thomas Road, which is not uncommon, and was closed at the bridge on the New Sharon/Chesterville line.
Fate of Kennebec County’s Melville Fuller statue debated
A public hearing Tuesday draws a wide range of comments and suggestions about the statue honoring the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who presided over the court when the “separate but equal” doctrine was enshrined into U.S. law, paving the way for decades of racial segregation.
CMP turns lights back on for thousands who lost power in storm, while wait goes on for some
Several thousand customers, especially in Brunswick and Harpswell, remained powerless Tuesday, and many who turned to CMP’s website were left to guess about their service restoration.
76ers coach Doc Rivers expresses concern over NBA season
Rivers isn’t sure the league will be able to pull off its planned 72-game schedule during the pandemic.
Manchester woman injured after high winds down trees on Hammonds Grove home
Herta Freeman sustained large lacerations on her head, but was largely unharmed, after being pinned under debris after a tree fell on her son’s home Monday night.