Adjusting to remote teaching

Chesterville residents provide kids with meals

Volunteers in Chesterville organized an effort to provide meals for youth after it was announced Regional School Unit 9 would no longer be able to supply weekend meals.

Baseball is sidelined, so Fenway Park’s organist launches his own season

Daily at 3 p.m., Josh Kantor takes requests, offers music-and-baseball-related anecdotes and taps into a reservoir of songs that range from Motown and polkas to the Clash and Replacements.

Maine says schools should plan to keep classrooms closed for rest of academic year

Education Commissioner Pender Makin, citing federal coronavirus guidance about avoiding large group and in-person instruction for 8 to 20 weeks, recommends that districts finish the 2019-20 academic year using remote and distance learning programs.

Celebrated singer-songwriter John Prine dies at 73 from coronavirus

Prine, who won a lifetime achievement Grammy and was called ‘The Mark Twain of American songwriting,’ had been hospitalized last month.

Hair-raising time: Stylists, barbers, customers hope stay-at-home order is trimmed

Clients with long locks, shaggy hairlines, discolored roots and chipped nails may take matters into their own hands.

As health care shifts, so do health care employees

Primary care doctors are leaving their offices to work in hospitals and nurses are staffing screening tents as the entire industry adapts to the coronavirus.

Maine doesn’t know how many COVID-19 patients are hospitalized

More than 3 weeks into the outbreak, the state doesn't have complete, daily data from all hospitals.

Safety net programs facing surge of applicants in Maine during pandemic

Requests for food stamps and other public assistance programs have nearly doubled since the middle of March.

Lewiston landlords, tenants navigating financial strain from COVID-19

The pandemic is putting stress on renters and building owners.