COVID-19 outbreak grows at Brunswick High School
Brunswick High School currently has four active cases of COVID-19.
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As of Thursday, Brunswick High School has now reported four active cases of COVID-19, up one from when the outbreak was first announced by Superintendent Phil Potenziano in a letter on April 19.
The Maine Center for Disease Control defines an outbreak as three or more cases of COVID-19 within a 14-day period that are epidemiologically linked.
“Please monitor yourself/your student for signs and symptoms,” Potenziano wrote. “A school representative has contacted all close contacts.”
According to a reopening update on April 9, all Brunswick schools will be transitioning from two days to four days per week of in-person learning beginning on April 26 until the end of the school year.
Brunswick superintendent urges Mills to prioritize vaccines for teachers
Brunswick Superintendent Phil Potenziano argued in a Jan. 15 letter to Gov. Janet Mills that vaccinating education staff will allows schools to return to more in-person learning.
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BRUNSWICK Brunswick Superintendent Phil Potenziano has asked Gov. Janet Mills to expand vaccinations for school personnel in hopes of getting more students back into the classroom.
Potenziano argued in the Jan. 15 letter that vaccinating staff, particularly those in direct contact with students, will allow schools to boost in-person learning.
“I recognize the importance of vaccinating our frontline health care workers and older Mainers; additional emergency service personnel; and people who support infrastructure critical to Maine’s COVID-19 response,” Potenziano wrote in the letter. “I believe that our school teachers are, in fact, essential to the well-being of not just our students but to our greater society. Th
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As yet, only one shoe factory in Auburn is entirely shut down. This is the Field Brothers & Gross. The other big shops are all running part time daily, most of them shutting down for the last two days in the week. Many are laid off entirely, of course and the salesmen are off the road. One Auburn man in close touch with the shoe manufacturing business “mentioned this week that Auburn was lucky to be running at about 50 percent of normal, where other factories thru the State were hardly pulling out more than 40 percent of their usual production, About six factories thru the state are shut down entirely. It is to be expected that there will be some improvement in business for Easter but no real resumption of business until later, when the orders for fall and winter goods begin to come in.
Forum: Maine needs bold action on climate
By Leila Trummel
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The cold seeped under my coat as I stood outside the Brunswick Junior High School on Election Day. I was there working on behalf of the Sunrise Movement, a national youth-led climate action group, to encourage voters to consider the climate when casting their vote.
It is clear that young people both in Maine and across the nation significantly contributed to Joe Biden’s victory. Maine also re-elected Sen. Susan Collins, who describes herself as a moderate Republican able to work with Democrats on bipartisan legislation. Many Maine voters split their ticket for President-elect Biden and Sen. Collins. It is time for Biden and Collins to join forces to promote a solution to the climate crisis which, according to a recent Bangor Daily News poll, the majority of Maine residents support.