The industry's reliance on foreign-born workers and uncertainty about the coronavirus have fueled concerns about possible labor shortages to meet demand for beef, pork and chicken. Read More
Barbara Shannon of CoWorx Staffing Services said employers are seeing interest in positions from unexpected sectors. Read More
When it came to protecting people who are homeless from getting and spreading infection, city officials clashed with Bangor’s largest shelter, the Hope House Health and Living Center, over how to develop a strategy that was both prudent and fast. Read More
While even experts disagree on precisely how much testing capacity Maine will need in the future, it is clear that local capacity matters. Read More
While Maine schools’ remote learning strategies have become longer-term and more digitally oriented as school shutdowns have continued, teachers and school district leaders agree that public education overall is more pared down than it was in the classroom, and will remain that way until schools can reopen. Read More
It’s a long way from Middle Street to Hollywood. It’s even longer if you make a round trip. That's just what Hiram Abrams did. Read More
The weather was cloudy and the crowd was small Monday morning for an abbreviated Memorial Day ceremony at Grove Cemetery in Belfast. Read More
An off-duty game warden, his wife and other quick-thinking camp owners rescued a father and two daughters whose boat capsized early Sunday afternoon on a pond in Somerset County. Read More
Those American traditions are the latest victims of a world transformed by the coronavirus pandemic. Read More
A white, marble slab marks Rueben Sawyer's grave at the Congregational Cemetery. It also memorializes the four wives and two children he outlived. Read More
As construction has been deemed an essential business during Maine’s coronavirus-related economic shutdown, work has continued more or less as usual for thousands of workers, but with added safety measures, personal protective equipment and social distancing. Read More
While many people own a personal greenhouse using these characteristics, the one on Mountain View Farms is the first one to be used for commercial purposes. Read More
Another Mainer has died as 42 more coronavirus cases have been detected in the state. Read More
The toll of the virus on military veterans has been particularly harsh. They are older, have underlying health problems and many reside in facilities that have been breeding grounds for the disease. Read More
A teenager was killed Saturday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash on the Darling Road in Hudson. Read More
Two more prisoners have tested positive for COVID-19, the Maine Department of Corrections said Saturday. Read More
Today is Sunday. There have now been 2,013 cases across all of Maine’s counties since the outbreak began here in March, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Read More
Both the Farnsworth and the CMCA had their collections available online prior to the forced closure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
The pandemic has lowered some of the barriers for so-called telehealth programs. Read More
Maine is one of the least religious states in the nation, but Winters and his congregation, like clergy and worshippers all over Maine, are anxious to gather together again. Read More
James Myall, an analyst with the liberal Maine Center for Economic Policy, said 11 percent of the state’s black population are working in frontline jobs, compared with 8 percent of the state’s white population. Read More
The latest on the coronavirus and Maine. Read More
Police said witnesses had reported that the driver appeared unconscious before her vehicle crossed into the opposite lane. Read More
Two more Mainers have died, bringing the statewide death toll to 77. Read More
