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Most Bowdoin students will return to campus in February

by Edward D. Murphy October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

In a change from the fall term, the Brunswick college said it will welcome sophomores, juniors, seniors and some freshman for the spring semester beginning Feb. 8.

Nation & World, Uncategorized

3 win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus

by FRANK JORDANS and DAVID KEYTON Associated Press October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

Local & State, News, Uncategorized

Maine reports 25 new cases of COVID-19, no additional deaths

by Joe Lawlor October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

York County, which has been a hotspot of COVID-19, had only 6 new cases on Monday.

Bicentennial, Local & State, News, Uncategorized

On this date in Maine history: Oct. 5

by Joseph Owen October 5, 2020October 4, 2020

Oct. 5, 1785: In response to a notice published in the Falmouth Gazette, about 30 men from Cumberland, Lincoln and York counties gather at the meeting house of ministers Thomas Smith and Samuel Deane in Falmouth to discuss, for the first time in a formal setting, a proposal that Maine separate from Massachusetts to become […]

Times Record, Uncategorized

Topsham woman helps shelter wildfire victims in California

by Darcie Moore October 4, 2020October 5, 2020

Celeste Stimpson, a disaster program manager with the Topsham-based regional chapter of the American Red Cross, is in California working with hundreds of people who have evacuated or lost their homes in Pacer County after several weeks of wildfires.