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While COVID-19 transmission rates in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties remained below the threshold at which masks are recommended for all people, all but one neighboring county recorded substantial levels of community spread Wednesday.
State health officials reported four new cases of COVID-19 in Androscoggin County on Wednesday and three each in Franklin and Oxford counties. A total of 126 new cases were reported across the state and there were no additional deaths.
Cumberland, Kennebec, Somerset and York counties all had substantial rates of community transmission. Sagadahoc County was the only neighboring county that had a low transmission rate.
Bath Housing portfolio transfer expected to facilitate new funding
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Central, western Maine counties surrounded by areas of high COVID-19 transmission
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AUGUSTA A convicted killer committed to Riverview Psychiatric Center, who pleaded guilty to escaping from the facility in 2018, had his conviction overturned this week by the state’s top court upon his appeal, ruling he had improperly been tried for the same criminal incident twice.
Mark Ian Gessner
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday that Mark Ian Gessner’s escape conviction be vacated and that the charge should be dismissed.
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Gessner, 57, was convicted of the 1994 murder of Melvin Henderson, a florist in Bath, for which he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. While serving his sentence for that crime in prison, Gessner was accused of aggravated assault and trafficking in prison contraband. He was found not criminally responsible for those charges and committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Health and Human Services in 2011.