Today is Friday. Temperatures will be in the high 40s to low 50s from north to south, with mostly cloudy skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
With coronavirus cases surging again nationwide, the Supreme Court barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hit by the virus. The justices split 5-4 late Wednesday night, with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the majority. It was the conservative’s first publicly discernible vote as a justice. The court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented.
Thom Sambrook, 71, stands outside the Hannaford supermarket on Forest Avenue in Portland, where he works, on Wednesday. Early in the pandemic, Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Portland businesses will soon be required to pay workers for the extra risk they’re assuming during the pandemic. But how soon is up for debate.
University of Southern Maine senior Connor Blake, who tested positive for COVID-19 and spent 18 days alone in his dorm room, eats breakfast that the university delivered to him daily. Credit: Courtesy of Connor Blake
Across the University of Maine System, 50 students are in isolation this Thanksgiving after testing positive or being exposed to someone who tested positive.
Michael Arell, the director of music for Veazie Community School, plays the piano during a graduate recital in 2019. Arell is pledging to donate profits from his self-recorded Christmas Album to the Good Shepherd Food Bank. Courtesy of Michael Arell
More than 170,000 Mainers struggle with hunger. Michael Arell felt compelled to do something more to ensure fewer Mainers go hungry.
