PROTESTS AND PRAYERS

The suspense was finally over. Now the lobstermen of Vinalhaven had to face new federal rules that could threaten their livelihood. Despair came first, then decision time.

Brunswick hospital nears capacity as COVID-19 patients trend younger

“It is hard,” said Dr. Patrick Keaney, a pulmonologist who works in the with COVID-19 patients in the Mid Coast Hospital ICU. “It's hard to see people suffer, it's hard to see people die when it potentially could have been avoided.”

New directory aims to boost visibility of women-owned businesses

The CEI Women’s Business Center launched Maine Women’s Business List recently. It has nearly 300 women-owned businesses listed so far.

Federal government launches push that may remove Maine Yankee’s nuclear waste from Wiscasset

The U.S. Department of Energy wants to know whether communities would be willing to store nuclear waste temporarily while the government finds a permanent solution.

THE LOBSTER TRAP

The plentiful catch that brought wealth to fishing families is at risk, as climate change warms the Gulf of Maine. A way of life is on the line, but lobstermen can’t, or won’t, imagine another.

Maine COVID infections, ICU patients and school outbreaks reach new records

As bad as the pandemic is now, Maine's top public health official warned Friday that it's going to get worse.

Bath shipyard remains quiet on potential fallout of vaccine mandate for federal contractors

Bath Iron Works continues to refuse to answer questions regarding how many workers are vaccinated against COVID-19, how many have quit over the requirement, and what the company's contingency plan is.

Brunswick schools review policy in wake of reported hazing incident among football players

School officials are looking to implement an anonymous reporting tool to collect data and gain awareness on future allegations in the district.

Photo: Decorating the Christmas tree in Lisbon

Navy commissions Bath-built, Pearl Harbor-based USS Daniel Inouye

Inouye was the first Japanese American to serve in Congress when he was elected to the House in 1959, the year Hawaii became a state.