Gail Phaneuf named executive director of Maine’s historic Deertrees Theatre
Gail Phaneuf
Gail Phaneuf – a playwright, educator, composer, actor, director and a 40-year summer resident of Harrison – has been named the artistic and executive director of the historic Deertrees Theatre, which has provided performing arts entertainment to the Greater Maine region since 1936. Phaneuf has permanently relocated to Harrison to live there year-round and assume her new position. As a playwright and composer, Phaneuf has penned three full musicals and 16 plays that are performed at venues around the world. Her award-winning “MONSTERS! A Midlife Musical Meltdown” premiered in Boston and subsequently was produced at Deertrees, among other theaters. Originally founded as an opera house by prominent opera singer and director Enrica Clay Dillon, Deertrees Theatre has since been home to Broadway stars and local actors, world-acclaimed musicians and aspiring students.
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A century-old bridge in Gardiner, Maine, recently was replaced using 21st-century technology that accelerates the construction process.
The town s Bridge Street Bridge, which carries U.S. Highway 201 over Cobbosseecontee Stream, became the second bridge in Maine to utilize the unilateral slide method. As a result, the span was only closed to traffic for 30 days.
But the Gardiner bridge replacement project will not be the last accelerated bridge construction in the state as the
Maine Department of Transportation (Maine DOT) plans to also utilize the same technology on the Veranda Street Bridge replacement in Portland. The roadway and bridge project began in December, but it will be fall 2021, at least, before the span is closed and the accelerated process gets under way.
Maine teen sells coronavirus masks to help fund a female veteran housing unit
The transitional housing unit for a homeless female veteran in need is 17-year-old Kasey Jordan s Gold Award Girl Scout project. Author: Hannah Yechivi (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 7:45 PM CST December 14, 2020 Updated: 5:06 AM CST December 15, 2020
LAMOINE, Maine Kasey Jordan has been busy sewing masks since March when the coronavirus pandemic started. The 17-year-old is a junior at Mount Desert Island High School, and when she is not focused on schoolwork, Kasey is sewing masks with her mother and troop leader, Lori Jordan. Lori taught Kasey how to make a face mask from scratch. With her help, they have made almost 6,000 masks.
The use of remote technologies to deliver medical care has become big business during the pandemic but is more than a passing fad, a panel of health industry experts said at the 2020 Mainebiz Health Care Forum, held virtually last Thursday.
The panel, led by the Maine Bureau of Insurance’s director of consumer health care, Joanne Rawlings-Sekunda, told a group of nearly 200 registrants why they should pay attention to the growing popularity of virtual care, and how it may ultimately benefit the bottom line for their businesses.
The use of telemedicine or telehealth, as it’s sometimes called has skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic. One measure, cited by Rawlings-Sekunda and by a Mainebiz feature in September: After a national average of 13,000 telehealth visits a week by Medicare beneficiaries before the public health emergency, that number shot to 1.7 million by the end of April.