Felines don’t ask for much, but give a lot, particularly to owners stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, Amy Calder writes.
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Gardiner’s Boys & Girls Clubs prepares to reopen after COVID-19 case
The club, which provides daycare and supervision for children on remote learning days, closed Dec. 1 after the report of a COVID-19 case required staff, students and and children in daycare to quarantine for two weeks.
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Survey identifies 237 sites where pollution affected water quality of Belgrade-area Great Pond
7 Lakes Alliance and the Belgrade Lakes Association updated the Great Pond watershed community about efforts to improve water quality in Great Pond.
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Winthrop officials discuss publishing mask-related complaints against local businesses
Town Councilor Barbara Alexander says Winthrop’s emergency management officials should publish face mask-related complaints. Some others on the council said they were not sold on the idea.
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Richmond woman died of acute intoxication, authorities say
Robin Bowler, who with Dana Shulman was found dead in their Richmond apartment in early November, had taken several illegal drugs and one used to treat depression, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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Truck driver injured in Augusta crash involving 2 big rigs, ambulance
Other drivers, including a patient in the Delta ambulance, were uninjured in early Tuesday morning crash on Interstate 95.
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Augusta’s public schools to begin winter break early, go fully remote until Jan. 19
After a successful trial following Thanksgiving, city schools will use a remote learning model two days before and two weeks after the winter break.
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First adult-use marijuana store in Kennebec County opens in Waterville
Sweet Dirt, an Eliot-based company, opened Wednesday in the former Pine Cone Gift & Furniture Shop on Kennedy Memorial Drive.
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Augusta shutting down entire child care program until Dec. 28
A staff member tested positive for COVID-19 after a partial closure of the program, prompting the city to send the remaining 45 children in the program home.
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Gardiner development gets green light to go ahead
The proposal to bring apartments and condominium units to vacated medical buildings on Dresden Avenue has passed an early hurdle.