This past week, the staff of Mount Desert Island Hospital, its associated practices and vaccine clinics put 900 shots into arms. This was the hospital’s largest weekly allotment of doses, adding to the 5,753 administered to date.
A Hancock man has pled guilty in Maine District Court to theft of mail by a postal employee, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced this week.
The two hikers whose bodies were recovered late Saturday morning during a ground search at Acadia National Park have been identified as Wayne Beckford, 28, and Kassandra Caceres, 30, both of Rutland, Mass.
The bodies of two hikers from Massachusetts who appear to have fallen about 100 feet along ice covered cliff bands on Dorr Mountain were recovered on Saturday.
Identified only as a 26-year-old male hiker from Belfast, the man set out from Schooner Head Road around 9 a.m. to begin the hike, according to Jay Elhard, Media Specialist with the Park Service, but at 11:02 a.m. called for help after becoming stuck on an icy vertical face unable to move either up or down.
For the last decade, the Neighborhood House has been serving meals twice a month from November through April to anyone who wants one. This year, however, the lunch landscape has changed, and the once social outing has morphed into a carryout affair.
Walmart and Sam’s Club pharmacists will soon begin administering the COVID-19 vaccine at 24 locations in Maine including Ellsworth, Brewer and Bangor.
As has been the case for every healthcare facility statewide, Mount Desert Island Hospital has more patients wishing for vaccines than doses to give. That is unlikely to change anytime soon.
Vaccines are on the way, but with limited supply and high demand, the rollout will take time. Statewide, approximately 81,000 Mainers have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and, as of Tuesday, 12,441 people have been given the required two doses.
A group of 11 Bar Harbor residents is asking a judge to nullify, on procedural grounds, eight changes to the town’s charter passed by voters in November.
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