One Portland educator has spent years consulting with Wabanaki experts to come up with a K-12 curriculum.
Lana Cohen
Staff Writer
Lana covers education for the Portland Press Herald. She joins the Press Herald from VTDigger, where she covered Chittenden County, Vermont’s population center. Previously she was a Report for America fellow in Mendocino County, covering environmental news for a digital outlet and a public radio station. She also reported on the environment for digital news outlet, WhoWhatWhy. In her spare time Lana enjoys hiking with her Goldendoodle, Rigby, running, surfing and baking.
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Cyclist severely injured in collision with car in Portland
The 44-year-old woman was taken to Maine Medical Center with life-threatening injuries on Saturday, police said.
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Maine school officials watching COVID trends as students return from spring break
With classes scheduled to resume Monday, Maine is seeing case numbers rise and hospitalizations fluctuate.
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Maine resident dies from tick-borne illness
A Waldo County resident died from Powassan, a rare tick-borne virus, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Bowdoin College president Clayton Rose stepping down after 8 years
Bowdoin College’s president will depart the post at the end of the next academic year.
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In emotional testimony, lawmakers open up about being sexually assaulted
Before passing a bill to help sexual assault survivors on campuses, Maine senators shared their own experiences of sexual assault.
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New COVID-19 cases climb as Maine moves to end routine testing in schools
A jump in new cases on Wednesday pushed Maine’s 7-day average up to 255 cases as Maine and other Northeast states see a rise in infections.
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Search for USM president is down to 4 finalists, but process rankles some
University of Southern Maine faculty and other community members expressed frustration with the search process, saying it has not been as transparent as it should be.
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Maine COVID-19 hospitalizations drop below 100 as cases rise in Northeast
The state’s top health officials warned this week that a slight rise of coronavirus in wastewater samples in Maine could indicate virus levels are increasing here as they have in other Northeast states.
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Nearly all of Maine now considered at low risk for COVID-19
The U.S. CDC updated its ‘community levels’ on Thursday, putting all of Maine except Hancock County at low risk for the virus.