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Maine eligibility guidelines for COVID-19 vaccine confuse, frustrate
Contradictions and exceptions within an evolving set of rollout rules trouble vaccine providers and those still waiting for their shots, but some in the field say they appreciate a degree of flexibility.
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Gov. Janet Mills, during a Jan. 13 press briefing, said a person who is 69 and 10 months old who accompanies a 71-year-old coming in to be vaccinated probably could also get a shot for the sake of efficiency. The statement was seen by some as an example of the state’s lack of clear guidance because clinics had been turning away people who had not yet turned 70.
Maine eligibility guidelines for COVID-19 vaccine confuse, frustrate sunjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sunjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What’s it worth? Tiverton paying to have power plant appraised
Marcia Pobzeznik
TIVERTON Tiverton and Rumford, Maine, a small town of 5,800 residents in the foothills of the western part of the Pine Tree state, are going through the same process right now: figuring out how to tax one of their biggest taxpayers going forward.
The two towns are home to Tiverton Power and Rumford Power, natural gas-fired electric generating plants that were built about the same time by the same company some two decades ago. Both towns entered into 20-year agreements with the original owners, in lieu of taxes. Tiverton’s tax treaty expired at the end of 2020; Rumford’s tax increment financing agreement is due to expire this March, but a new one has been negotiated and will be put to Rumford voters on Feb. 24, said Rumford Town Manager Stacy Carter.
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All five large trees near the Rumford Information Center were removed recently due to safety concerns, according to Town Manager Stacy Carter.
Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times
RUMFORD The area around the Rumford Information Center on Bridge Street looks a lot different now that the town has removed five large trees.
“Trees were dying, limbs were coming down very close to parked vehicles,” Town Manager Stacy Carter said. “One of the trees only had about an inch and a half ring of live growth. Everything else in the middle was dead, so that was going to come down this winter, most likely, with the storms that we’re having.