The 130th Maine Legislature has released a list of bills proposed in the House and Senate, and local representatives are focused on the commercial fishing industry, alongside other constituent concerns.
The annual Fishermen’s Forum, a three-day event held in Rockport in early March, was canceled for 2021 under the pandemic restrictions, but online seminars and presentations will take its place.
Back in pre-COVID times, it took two or three days for a piece of mail to reach its destination using the United States Postal Service when sent via its higher-tier “Priority Mail” service. For first-class, in-county mail, one or two days would do.
The Maine Department of Resources has released its 2021 elver quotas for license holders and they look the same as those in place for 2020, merely updating the years referred to in the 2020 rule.
A Gulf of Maine offshore wind power initiative Maine Governor Janet Mills rolled out late last year has raised concern in the lobster fishing community.
Delta Thermo Energy will be the new owner of Coastal Resources of Maine, the waste-to-biofuel facility in Hampden that has had a dramatic, if short, history since opening in April 2019. The facility closed in May of 2019 and was subsequently placed in receivership.
The Jackson Laboratory has received millions of dollars in grants for its research projects across a range of fields: Alzheimer’s, cancer, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and — COVID-19.
Maine residents are receiving the COVID-19 vaccination — but slowly. A total of 53,511 frontline health-care and other workers and residents of long-term care and nursing home facilities have been vaccinated since late December, with 8,493 of them receiving the required second dose, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Executive Director Dr. Nirav Shah said at a Jan. 13 press briefing.
BAR HARBOR — A proposed rule released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Dec. 30 aims to lower North Atlantic right whale entanglements in commercial fishing lines. Its release follows two years of research, public meetings and comment. Federal regulators found the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) proposal submitted last January …
ELLSWORTH — A new choice for urgent medical care will be available for area residents when ConvenientMD opens a new clinic on High Street on Jan. 7. The clinic will join five other care centers the Portsmouth, N.H.-based health-care chain operates in Maine, including one in Bangor and four in central and southern Maine. “We …
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