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Augusta summer celebration moves from Capitol Park to newly renovated Mill Park
The event included several other changes, including live music meant to appeal to an older audience.
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Vanessa Tyler, 6, of Augusta, gets a flag painted on her face Saturday during Kennebec River Day at Mill Park in Augusta. Photo by Elise Klysa
AUGUSTA The annual festival held in Augusta every summer has come a long way from its roots, as a raucous race down the Kennebec River in rafts made of any available material.
The Whatever Race was stopped years ago some participants had taken to drinking alcohol, and organizers didn’t want it to become dangerous. To continue the celebration in a family-friendly form, the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce began holding festivals in other parts the city, most recently in Capitol Park.
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Northern Light Health is looking to borrow about $34 million in a year to pay for construction of a consolidated campus for Northern Light Mercy Hospital in Portland, which has been split between two locations.
Northern Light Health is looking to borrow about $34 million in a year to pay for construction of a consolidated campus for Northern Light Mercy Hospital in Portland, which has been split between two locations.
Maine hospitals start to expand COVID-19 units, delay procedures with spike in virus patients Contributed • December 9, 2020
By Charles Eichacker, Bangor Daily News Staff
Some Maine hospitals have seen such a large new wave of coronavirus patients this fall that they’re starting to delay some elective surgeries and expanding COVID-19 units to handle the growing volume.
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- Pedestrians seen reflected in a shop window wear masks while walking around Portland Old Port on Thursday Dec. 3, 2020. Troy R. Bennett | BDN
- Pedestrians seen reflected in a shop window wear masks while walking around Portland Old Port on Thursday Dec. 3, 2020. Troy R. Bennett | BDN
December on track to be deadliest month of pandemic in Maine Contributed • December 23, 2020
By Charles Eichacker, Bangor Daily News Staff
December has now tied November as Maine’s deadliest month in the coronavirus pandemic, with 82 people succumbing to the virus so far and with the virus still surging to record levels as eight days still remain until January meaning the last month of 2020 will likely go out as the state’s deadliest yet.