The danger of coronavirus spread from skiing is from many of the other activities linked to the sport, including riding ski lifts.
Carol Semple
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Western Maine tourism, recreation get a funding boost
The University of Maine has received $286,800 to provide workforce training for the industries.
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Posted inNation & World, Outdoors
Trump administration moves ahead on gutting protections for birds
The wildlife service acknowledges that the rollback would have a ‘negative’ effect on the many bird species covered by the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which range from hawks and eagles to seabirds, storks, songbirds and sparrows.
Posted inNation & World
Trump administration’s rule change could allow gas, firing squads for U.S. executions
The rule – which goes into effect on Dec. 24 – comes as the Justice Department has scheduled 5 executions during the lame-duck period, including 3 just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Virus keeps Black Friday crowds thin, as shoppers shift online
Many stores have moved their doorbuster deals online and ramped up curbside pickup options as a last grasp at sales before the year ends and they head into the dark days of winter with the pandemic still raging.
Posted inLocal & State, New England
Driver charged in New Hampshire crash that kills Maine man
A New Hampshire woman is charged with aggravated driving while impaired, a felony.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation & World, Politics
U.S. appeals court rejects Trump’s latest appeal over Pennsylvania race
A lower court judge had said the campaign’s error-filled complaint, ‘like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together.’
Posted inNation & World
With Ethiopia on brink of escalation, diplomacy is in doubt
Hundreds if not thousands of people have been killed, some 40,000 people have fled into Sudan and the U.N. says 2 million people in the sealed-off Tigray region urgently need help.
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty, admits criminal role in opioid epidemic
The ongoing drug overdose crisis, which appears to be growing worse during the coronavirus pandemic, has contributed to the deaths of more than 470,000 Americans over the past 2 decades, most of those from legal and illicit opioids.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Nation & World, Politics
Michigan board certifies Biden win, dealing Trump another blow
Both the president and top Republican officials sought to discredit the vote process in Michigan’s Wayne County, home of Detroit, making sweeping and unsubstantiated claims about widespread fraud and citing errors in the vote tallies.