Some Maine schools are planning vaccination clinics for students. Author: Roslyn Flaherty (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 10:22 PM EDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 11:57 PM EDT May 11, 2021
MAINE, USA COVID-19 vaccines are headed into the arms of more kids, and some Maine school districts are calling it a game-changer. The excitement to think we have taken another step towards getting some normalcy back in our school day, said Biddeford, Saco and Dayton Schools Superintendent Jeremy Ray. It really opens some things up, Lewiston Public Schools Superintendent Jake Langlais said. It feels like one of the first things we ve done this year that feel proactive, said Poland Regional High School Principal, Cari Medd.
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Nurse Cathy Godwin talks with a Poland Regional High School junior Tuesday before giving him a COVID-19 vaccination in the school auditorium. The student said the shot will allow him to remain in school and at his job if he is comes in close contact with someone that has COVID-19. If I needed to quarantine, I would miss work, the unidentified students said. Now I won t need to. Godwin is a nurse at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
POLAND Poland Regional High School junior Latrell Mongo, 16, was among the first in Maine to get a COVID-19 vaccination at school Tuesday.
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It did not seem a big a deal last year when the Regional School Unit 16 board of directors decided it would not offer remote-only learning to students who did not have a solid reason for staying away from the classroom.
But it turns out the move pushed 74 students who had been on the district’s rolls to home-school, at least until the COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control across Maine.
Because the district relies in large part on state aid based on the number of students in the three-town school district, officials learned this spring RSU 16, which enrolls students from Mechanic Falls, Minot and Poland, is losing almost $500,000 in aid this year.
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Minot native faces federal charges in connection with U.S. Capitol siege
Mitch Simon, 30, charged with joining the insurgents who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in bid to stop Joe Biden s succession to the presidency.
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Federal prosecutors shared a video surveillance image that they say pinpoints Mitch Simon’s presence inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.
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Minot native Glen Mitchell “Mitch” Simon has been charged by federal prosecutors with participating in the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January.
While police were still clearing the U.S. Capitol of insurgents, Minot native Mitch Simon posted a photograph of himself on Facebook posing on the steps just outside during the Jan. 6 siege in Washington, D.C.