Penobscot Community Health Care Chief Medical Officer Dr. Noah Nesin speaks with Zone Radio’s Don Cookson to update the number of Mainers who have tested positive for COVID-19, recent changes to guidelines regarding testing for COVID -19 and Bangor’s centralized REFERRAL-ONLY testing site, as well as recent reports about whether or not some existing medications are […]
WKIT’s Don Cookson speaks with local public health officials about the Cornoavuirus pandemic arriving here in Maine, and what YOU can do to stay safe and help protect the broader community. Thanks to Penobscot Community Health Care CEO Lori Dwyer, PCHC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Noah Nesin, and City of Bangor Public Health Director Patty […]
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine residents spent more than $250,000 on marijuana over the course of the first weekend of legal retail sales of the drug in the state. Voters in the state chose to legalize adult use marijuana in 2016, but retail sales didn’t become legal until this month. The Maine Office of […]
LEBANON, Maine (AP) — A woman who died in a fire at a home in the southern Maine community of Lebanon has been identified. The state medical examiner’s office said 46-year-old April S. Patch, of Lebanon, died from smoke inhalation. Rescuers found her body in an apartment over a garage early Sunday evening; she was […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With the election three weeks away, more than 133,000 Mainers already have voted by absentee ballot with Democrats outpacing Republicans in both requesting and returning ballots. Mainers are being encouraged to vote via absentee ballot during the pandemic to limit the spread of the coronavirus, including by reducing congestion at polling […]
