By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine marked yet another grim milestone on Friday with 247 new coronavirus cases and three deaths reported across the state.

PORTLAND — In accordance with Gov.

BANGOR — Eastern Maine Development Corporation (EMDC) has received a 2020 Impact Award from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) for the state’s Connecting with Opportunities Initiative.

By Jessica Piper and Michael Shepherd, Bangor Daily News Staff How Susan Collins defied the polls and a record money wave to win a historic 5th term| The 2018 confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh started a massive Democratic campaign against U.

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff This story will be updated.

“Get to Know Girl Scouts — A Caregiver Q&A” will be offered over Zoom on three nights, 6-6:30 p.

By Rosemary Lausier, Bangor Daily News Staff This story will be updated.

MILO — Guidelines are still being developed and the directors are set to make a formal decision at the Wednesday, Dec.

By Lori Valigra, Bangor Daily News Staff Maine now wants restaurants to require customers to wear masks even when seated except when eating or drinking, leading to outcry from an industry that finds the rule too onerous.

By Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff AUGUSTA — The worsening coronavirus pandemic will mostly keep the Maine Legislature out of the State House in 2021 as it dusts off a plan floated earlier this year to temporarily convene at the Augusta Civic Center.

MILO — Two flags flown over Baghdad and Afghanistan on anniversaries of Sept.

By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News Staff Penobscot County is preparing to grow its budget next year by 11 percent, the result of loan payments the county will have to make for new equipment on 911 towers, an extra pay period in the coming year, and new hires and pay raises.

By Ernie Clark, Bangor Daily News Staff Gavyn Gilbert is an eighth-grader at Piscataquis Community Middle School in Guilford who’s big into soccer, basketball and track and field.

MONSON — The Monson Arts Gallery in Monson will host a show of prints by artists from Maine and Aomori, Japan through Jan.

DEXTER — Students in kindergarten through eighth grade at the Ridge View Community School will be going to remote learning for the rest of the week after a positive case of COVID-19 was diagnosed on Monday, the superintendent said in a pair of letters to the community.

You are invited to Pine Tree Hospice’s annual meeting.

By David Marino, Star Herald Staff Maine’s logging and lumber industry is seeing significant losses after an explosion at one of the state’s largest mills and market losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Larry Mahoney, Bangor Daily News Staff Eilean Allen bought her husband Dennis Allen a metal detector three years ago.