FORT KENT (AP) — A nurse who successfully fought Maine’s quarantine for health care workers who have treated Ebola patients is free to go wherever she pleases, but her boyfriend on Monday was still staying away from the campus where he’s a nursing student. Ted Wilbur told reporters that the University of Maine at Fort […]
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Nurse: No option but to fight Ebola quarantine
FORT KENT (AP) — A nurse who successfully fought Maine’s quarantine for health care workers who have treated Ebola patients said she had no option but to challenge how medical professionals were being treated. Kaci Hickox said in an interview with the Maine Sunday Telegram she was fighting for the rights of other U.S. medical […]
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Fort Kent residents divided on feelings over Kaci Hickox
FORT KENT — On Friday afternoon Kaci Hickox, the nurse released from isolation after returning last week to the U.S. from West Africa, where she treated Ebola patients, thanked the residents of Fort Kent for their support and assured them she was sensitive to their concerns. But not everyone in this northern Maine community is […]
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Video: Judge rejects quarantine for nurse Kaci Hickox
FORT KENT — A Maine judge gave nurse Kaci Hickox the OK to go wherever she pleases, handing state officials a defeat Friday in their bid to restrict her movements as a precaution against Ebola. In a case that has come to define the clash between personal freedom and fear of disease, Judge Charles C. […]
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Nurse in Fort Kent defies ebola quarantine, goes for bike ride
UPDATED – 2:03 p.m. FORT KENT (AP) — Practically daring Maine health authorities to go to court to have her confined, nurse Kaci Hickox went out on a bike ride Thursday in defiance of the state’s voluntary quarantine for medical workers who have treated Ebola patients. It was the second time in two days that […]
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Ebola nurse upset over quarantine in Fort Kent home goes outside as police watch
Kaci Hickox broke her quarantine by leaving her home with her boyfriend and speaking briefly to reporters in her driveway Wednesday evening. State and local police could only watch from across the street because a judge hadn’t signed off on a court order sought by state health officials. She reiterated that she planned to fight […]
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Ebola protocols: Nurse to self-quarantine in Fort Kent home
FORT KENT — A nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa will be quarantined at home for 21 days after the last possible exposure to the disease under Maine’s health protocols, health officials said. The nurse, Kaci Hickox, left a New Jersey hospital on Monday and headed toward home in Fort Kent, where her partner […]
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Richard Joseph Pelletier
1930 – 2014 MANSFIELD, Texas — Richard Joseph Pelletier passed away Friday, Oct. 24, at his home in Mansfield, Texas. Richard was born on April 1, 1930, to Amede and Alma Pelletier in Fort Kent. He grew up in Lewiston and spent cherished time as a teenager working with his father learning the logging trade. […]
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Runaway tire smashes through vacant Fort Kent store
FORT KENT — No charges are pending after a wayward automobile tire crashed through the window of vacant Main Street building owned by a Fort Kent police officer early Saturday morning. According to Dana Thibeault of the Fort Kent Police Department, Alshane Linton, 21, a student at the University of Maine at Fort Kent from […]
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Maine Food Strategy looking to connect state’s producers with consumers
FORT KENT — There is a conversation starting in Maine about how the state can help feed itself and the rest of the world and organizers are inviting everyone to the table. “We are trying to get together different groups and businesses with interests in food systems to start talking,” Tanya Swain, co-director of the […]