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Penobscot Community Health Care is visiting low-income and elderly housing facilities, patients' homes, and schools to administer coronavirus vaccines.
AUGUSTA The Maine Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) has placed its first order for doses of the newly authorized Johnson & Johnson one-shot COVID-19 vaccine for 11,500 people to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Operation Warp Speed.
Additionally, the Maine CDC learned Sunday the federal government will supplement the state allotment by sending an additional 3,500 Johnson & Johnson doses to another Maine entity that will be announced shortly. Another 1,000 doses of Moderna vaccine will be sent to Penobscot Community Health Care, a federally qualified health center that is vaccinating underserved populations.
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A series of public input sessions will focus on whether to allow short-term rentals like Airbnb properties.
Credit: Photos via Airbnb Published: 7:32 PM EST February 24, 2021 Updated: 7:52 PM EST February 24, 2021
BANGOR, Maine
As Maine readies for spring, communities are also bracing for another tourism season.
In Bangor, tourists have booked short-term rentals through Airbnb or other travel sites for years, but technically that form of rental is not allowed.
“There are people that are renting this way, Bangor Community and Economic Development Director Tanya Emery said. We know that. We are aware of that.
Bangor Planning Officer Anne Krieg said there are roughly 100 short-term rentals in the city, many of them Airbnb properties.