LEWISTON — Central Maine Healthcare has hired Kara Aleixo Johnson as system director of philanthropy. In this leadership role, Johnson is responsible for the planning and implementation of all fundraising efforts for CMH, including a portfolio of major gift prospects and donors and building broad-based private support for annual giving, endowments and capital projects. Johnson […]
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Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio won’t seek reelection
Portman, who turned 65 last month, is among establishment Republicans who clearly struggled with supporting former President Trump.
Dominion Voting System sues Giuliani over election claims
Dominion Voting Systems has filed a defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who led the former president’s efforts to spread baseless claims about the 2020 election.
Maine CDC reports 189 more COVID-19 cases, no additional deaths
A technological problem at the public health agency means new case numbers were approximate for Sunday.
Woman pulled from marsh in Wells
Police said an unnamed woman was alive after being found in a marsh on Friday afternoon.
Larry King, television’s everyman interviewer, dies at 87
Larry King, television’s everyman interviewer of the famous and obscure, dies at 87, according to network he co-founded.
VIP Tires & Service donates to Make-A-Wish
AUBURN — VIP Tires & Service employees and customers in Maine raised $39,723.71 for the Maine chapter of the Make-A-Wish foundation in 2020. VIP Chairman John Quirk matched it for a total of $79,447.42. The company’s total regional donation, $117,096.96, was its largest to Make-A-Wish since 2007. Funds were raised by the company’s 62 locations […]
Sports on TV: Thursday, January 21, 2021
(All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, January 21 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 5 p.m. FS1 – Southern California at Stanford 7 p.m. BTN – Rutgers at Penn State ESPN2 – Wichita State at Memphis ESPNU – Southeast Missouri State At Morehead State 9 p.m. CBSSN – Portland at Brigham Young ESPN – […]
Penobscot Theater Company presents ‘Flyin’ Solo,’ an autobiographical theatrical memoir
Everyone has a story. What’s yours?
Canada urges Biden not to cancel oil pipeline on first day
The premier of oil-rich Alberta wants U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to give the Canadian government a chance to make the case for the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline to be built.