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Latest numbers
The latest average positivity rate in Maine is 5.86%. State health departments are calculating positivity rate differently across the country, but for Maine the AP calculates the rate by dividing new cases by test specimens using data from The COVID Tracking Project.
The seven-day rolling average of the positivity rate in Maine did not increase over the past two weeks, going from 7.84% on Jan. 5 to 5.86% on Jan. 19.
Public health authorities in the state have reported more than 34,000 cases and 530 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Class outside
Students at the University of Maine have created a website that teachers can use to plan outdoor lessons as health authorities encourage more outdoor activities.
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Thirty years after Bates College decided to devote Martin Luther King Jr. Day to issues of racial justice instead of its ordinary class schedule, it held what its president called the college’s “first-ever, and hopefully last, fully remote” celebration to reach students scattered across the world by a raging pandemic.
President Clayton Spencer kicked off a daylong series of speeches, seminars, debates, podcasts, dances and more Monday with a call for the college community “to reflect consciously and intensively on what we owe our students and what we owe the world.”
With classes not set to resume until next month, Bates students and faculty relied on Zoom to hear historian and activist Angela Davis offer her thoughts on a range of issues to begin a day chock full of calls to action.
Mainewhile: Bellows more than qualified to be secretary of state
By Heather D. Martin
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Last week, I spent some time reflecting upon the work and legacy of our outgoing secretary of state, Matt Dunlap. We truly have been extremely fortunate to have him in this role, working for all of us in Maine.
Brunswick resident Heather D. Martin wants to know what’s on your mind; email her at [email protected]
Last Tuesday, state legislators met to vote for who would serve in the office next. There was a large field of candidates vying for the office and before I get to who won, I just want to pause to say we are so fortunate!
Collins sworn in for historic fifth term in U.S. Senate
She fought through a hotly contested race last year to become the first popularly elected Maine senator to win a fifth term.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks in Bangor on Nov. 4, the day after her re-election victory.
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U.S. Sen. Susan Collins was sworn in to a historic fifth term in office on Sunday after having battled through a fiercely contested race to win re-election in November.
Former U.S. Sen. and Secretary of Defense William Cohen escorted Collins to her swearing-in ceremony in the Senate chamber, along with her husband, Tom Daffron.