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REGION Despite recent rainfall, Franklin and Androscoggin counties have remained in drought.gov’s abnormally dry conditions category for three consecutive weeks. Livestock farmers and hay producers are crossing their fingers that Maine doesn’t cross into the more dry thresholds this season as they still feel the effects of last fall’s severe drought conditions.
According to drought.gov, 55.7% of Maine is currently in the abnormally dry condition with 100% of Franklin and Androscoggin counties in this classification for three consecutive weeks.
Screenshot from drought.gov
“We’re still on the tail end of last year’s weather so hay is pretty expensive,” John Wright of Sparkplug Farm in Leeds said in a phone interview.
Employees offered support to Get Back on the Bike 04 May, 2021
Parking and Transportation Services is actively seeking participants for the Get Back on the Bike Program for the 2021-2022 academic year now. This program was built specifically for interested but concerned employees who would like formal training and support for their bicycle commute.
Participants will receive:
A free bicycle tune-up courtesy of Parking and Transportation Services and the Spoke
Optional fitness assessment with the Campus Recreation Department
Eight monthly Lunch-and-Learn presentations that cover a number of topics (although the lunch part will be the responsibility of participants if the meetings are remote):
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - There s a lot of noise inside Hardy Diagnostics.
But the FDA-licensed manufacturer has been getting noisier since the pandemic started. We didn t realize how big of an issue it would be, and so when that hit, we started ramping up on these products, said director of manufacturing Aaron Buckley of Hardy Diagnostics.
Products like plates, tubes, and bottles are used by microbiologists to detect bacteria.
They re all devices that make COVID-19 testing possible. So you can see under the microscope healthy cells and not healthy cells when the virus is present, said quality control manager Zachary Hoffman of Hardy Diagnostics.