BREWER — In July, Northern Light Health launched its first podcast, Tim Talk, hosted by President and CEO Tim Dentry with the goal to break down barriers, open hearts and minds to diversity and focus on issues of social and medical justice.

Four candidates will vie to represent Maine in the U.

Maine can print ranked-choice voting ballots for the November presidential election, the state’s high court ruled on Monday, but it has not finally decided whether the system will be used in a case over whether a Republican people’s veto effort will move forward.

GUILFORD — The decision is ultimately up to the Maine Principals’ Association, but if the organization gives the go-ahead for fall high school sports then Piscataquis Community Secondary School teams will be on the field as the SAD 4 school board gave its approval to the season during a Sept.

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While a small number of Maine churches have been publicly fighting the state’s limits on large indoor gatherings, they are greatly outnumbered by the hundreds of other congregations that have chosen to follow the rules that are meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

HERMON — On the morning of Sept.

AUGUSTA — The Mills Administration today released a special update to its color-coded Health Advisory System that classifies counties’ relative risk of COVID-19 transmission by color, and is provided to assist schools as they continue with their plans to deliver instruction and support students safely this fall.

Imagine walking to town in Dexter on Main, Water or Spring streets on a lovely spring, summer or fall day and having a nice bench on which to rest yourself along the way.

The National Rifle Association’s political arm endorsed former state Rep.

AUGUSTA  — The validity of just dozens of signatures could determine whether ranked choice voting is used in Maine’s presidential election as the state’s high court is under time pressure to rule with a key ballot deadline looming in less than a month.

EMDC to host virtual Information session for interested businesses, nonprofits and partners 10 a.

A quick look at the windows of many businesses in Dover-Foxcroft, as well as down Route 7 in Dexter and Newport, shows a 4- by 2-foot banner featuring a woman’s portrait filling most of the space, a short quote of theirs and the words “Let’s Talk About It.

Maine is still giving schools in every county the green light to reopen in person, but that green light comes with a caveat in Penobscot and York counties due to recent outbreaks and increasing case numbers.

Single-use items are so ingrained in our culture that nearly all of us — no matter how sustainability-minded we may be — throw things away without even thinking about it.

AUGUSTA — Maine cities and towns will have more time to process absentee ballots ahead of the Nov.

DEXTER — A week before the opening days of classes during the first week of September, teachers, staff and administrators across SAD 46 have been busy making preparations for a school year that will be unlike any other with hybrid instruction and remote learning methods being used.

AUGUSTA — Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said Tuesday his office will contest a judge’s ruling that a Republican challenge to a ranked-choice voting law made the 2020 ballot before walking the statement back the next day as a key deadline approaches.