Contact tracing suspended for schools with masking policies
With the rapid spread, contact tracers can’t get to potential close contacts fast enough.
Articles by: Rebecca Alley
Rebecca Alley
Reporter at The Ellsworth American
Rebecca is the Schoodic-area reporter and covers the towns of Eastbrook, Franklin, Hancock, Lamoine, Sorrento, Sullivan, Waltham, Winter Harbor and Trenton. She lives in Ellsworth with her husband and baby boy who was joyously welcomed in June 2020. Feel free to send tips and story ideas to [email protected]
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Another solar farm could come to Trenton
The board has yet to review the application for completeness, and a formal decision will be made in subsequent meetings after the public and abutters have been notified.
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Website launched to order at-home COVID tests
The tests are expected to ship within 7 to 12 days and will be delivered by the United States Postal Service.
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Aquafarmers seek permit for ice machine
The Board of Appeals was meeting to hear an appeal for a denial that was issued to the de Koning family, owners of Acadia Aqua Farms.
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Construction begins on Trenton solar farm
The initial phase of the town’s first ever large-scale solar farm is underway.
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Pandemic forecast remains uncertain
It is unclear what the course of the pandemic will look like next year, said Dr. J.R. Krevans Jr., chairman of infection control at Mount Desert Island Hospital.
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Heckman named Trenton fire chief
Steve Heckman has been with the department for 15 years and has served as deputy chief throughout Steve Corson’s tenure as chief.
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Updated CDC isolation guidelines will apply to Maine schools
The Maine CDC will no longer consider exposures to COVID-19 that happened outside or on a school bus (where masks are federally mandated) as “close contacts.”
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Jarvis pleads for public to follow COVID-19 precautions
Dr. James Jarvis said that community transmission of the virus is putting Northern Light hospital staff at risk. Last week, 36 employees tested positive for COVID-19, further stretching an already taxed staffing crunch.
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U.S. CDC shortens isolation guideline
The recommended isolation time for people who test positive for COVID-19 and are asymptomatic has been shorted from 10 days to five days, followed by five days of wearing a mask when around others.
