PARIS — During the 2020-2021 school year Agnes Gray Elementary School in West Paris was largely COVID-free. Few students or staff spent time in quarantine. The school was only closed on one day because of the virus – and that was out of caution rather than an incident that threatened student safety. Now, that is […]
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COVID-19 battering SAD 17 schools
As of Nov. 18, three schools are closed due to outbreaks of three or more cases and one school has too many educators in quarantine for in-person learning. But six schools report no positive cases, currently.
Campgrounds, restaurants sue to block Gov. Mills’ quarantine rules for out-of-staters
The businesses in Scarborough and Waterboro allege the 14-day quarantine amounts to an unconstitutional infringement on the right of people to travel freely from state to state.
Shelter pets recovering after rough ride, N.H. accident
LEWISTON — Outside of a few strains and bruises, none of the dogs or kittens being carried when the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society’s van flipped Thursday afternoon on Interstate 95 in New Hampshire were seriously injured. “One of the drivers had to go to the hospital for minor issues, and other than some road-rash and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Maine’s Ebola protocols mean quarantine for nurse
Nurse Kaci Hickox left a New Jersey hospital on Monday and headed toward home in northern Maine, where her partner is a University of Maine at Fort Kent nursing student who lives off campus. State health officials announced that she’d be quarantined at home for 21 days after the last possible exposure to the disease […]
Dogs kill, injure animals in Peru
PERU — Two German shepherds were quarantined Thursday after they killed a guineafowl, injured two other birds and attacked two goats, Animal Control Officer Sue Milligan said. According to investigators, neighbor John Gallant’s dogs went onto the property of Steve Fuller and Nathalie Anctil on Stage Coach Road, where the attacks took place Thursday morning. […]