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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s top election official is encouraging people to vote via absentee ballot during the July primary election to limit the exposure that voters and polling workers have to the coronavirus. The state will still hold in-person balloting on July 14 with social distancing and safety protocols in place. But Secretary of […]

ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — A community foundation in Maine is providing more than $200,000 in grants to a marine science institution, a gay advocacy group and others. The Maine Community Foundation says it’s giving the grants to 24 nonprofits in the state. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland will receive a grant for […]

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Two small hospitals in Maine say they could close by the end of June without funding through a federal loan program meant to help small businesses during the pandemic. Calais Regional Hospital and Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln were disqualified from funds from the Paycheck Protection Program because they’ve both filed […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s governor has extended a state of emergency order prompted by the coronavirus outbreak until the middle of May. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills declared a state of civil emergency about a month ago and extended it to May 15 on Tuesday. The proclamation authorized Mills to use emergency powers to expand […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Utility crews in Maine are working on their fifth consecutive day of power restoration after a snowstorm followed by strong winds. Central Maine Power and Emera Maine had a combined total of about 35,000 customers without power Tuesday morning. Another 45,000 homes and businesses were in the dark in Massachusetts. In […]

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A Maine manufacturing plant is ready to begin production of COVID-19 tests. Abbott Laboratories received emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the test, and production starts Wednesday at its production facility in Scarborough. The company expects to deliver more than 1 million testing kits per month that […]