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The new face on the New England Fishery Management Council is no stranger to a group that advises on policy related to the region’s vital fisheries.

The online community is important, because long Covid leaves some sufferers too exhausted for in-person gatherings — even if they weren't more worried than most about ending up with a breakthrough case of the virus.

PHILADELPHIA — As often as three times a day, Alexandra Hackett posts on her TikTok account, adding another video entry to her chronicle of a 20-month journey with long COVID-19.

For the first time in 15 years, New Britain’s fire chief will have a second in command. This year’s budget restores the long-vacant assistant chief position, and Chief Raul Ortiz says it will help expand training, modernize policies and improve public service.

The state of Maine is asking fishermen to help site a proposed offshore wind turbine array that the industry largely opposes. “We know the industry has emphasized that nowhere is a good place for this. We hear that loud and clear,” Meredith Mendelson, deputy commissioner of the Department of Marine Resources, said at a virtual meeting Wednesday to discuss the arrays potential location off the southern Maine coast. The Governor’s Energy Office is leading the development of a research arra...

There are two groups in the outpatient studies. "One group does have to be actively infected, have to have a positive test, but not hospitalized," said Dr. Nathaniel Marchetti, Thoracic Medicine and Surgery. So that patient isnt terribly sick. "The other group would be someone whos not infected. Were trying to prevent an infection because theyre in high risk because you know their spouse might be infected," said Dr. Marchetti. Someone in your household is infected but you are not. There is a on...