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In 2021, three local veterans began V.E.T.S., Inc. to assist homeless veterans finding emergency shelter. At the time, founder Ed Harmon reported there was a need for 101 temporary shelters for Maine veterans. V.E.T.S., Inc. has built 27 temporary...

By Ethan Andrews, Bangor Daily News Staff CHARLESTON — The Maine Department of Corrections stated Sept. 8 that a resident of the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston had died.

December has been a month of hope and concern, with COVID-19 vaccines deployed for the first time to hospitals across Maine but health officials warned that the state continues to battle “a surge on top of a surge.” Hospitals this week received the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine and began inoculating frontline workers. The first phase of vaccinations focuses on healthcare workers in intensive care units, emergency rooms and COVID-19 wings of hospitals.  This story was originally publi...