Maine State Police investigating collision between pickup truck and logging truck on Route 9 in Clifton
The driver of the pickup truck was critically injured in the crash and needed to be cut from the vehicle by fire personnel from Eddington and Holden. Author: Jessica Yario (NEWS CENTER Maine), Chelsea Bard (NEWS CENTER Maine), Griffin Stockford (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 2:44 AM EST December 16, 2020 Updated: 12:40 PM EST December 16, 2020
The Maine State Police Department is investigating a serious crash involving a logging truck Wednesday morning, which shut down all travel on Route 9 in Clifton for several hours. It happened around 1 a.m.
State police were dispatched to a rollover crash involving several vehicles and a logging truck. Troopers investigating the crash said they determined Jay Preston, 30, of Dennysville was driving a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado on a suspended driver’s license when he crossed the centerlin
Maine State Police Log Week of Dec. 17
ELLSWORTH The Maine State Police charged an Ellsworth teen after stopping him for allegedly driving recklessly on Friday.
Trooper Travis Chapman summoned Jacob Britton, 19, on charges of driving to endanger, operating an unregistered vehicle and operating without a license.
Accident
Cpl. Chris Smith investigated a crash on Route 189 in Lubec that occurred Sunday.
Smith said Craig Ashby, 67, of Lubec was driving a vehicle that went off the road, crashed into a telephone pole and came to rest against a tree.
Ashby was taken via ambulance to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center with serious injuries, police said.
MaineGeneral gets 775 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
The vaccine arrived Tuesday at the Alfond Center for Health in Augusta. The hospital will begin distributing doses Wednesday.
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MaineGeneral Health received 775 doses of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday morning at the Alfond Center for Health in Augusta and will start giving out vaccinations Wednesday.
“We expect to begin administering the vaccine tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec. 16,” Steve Diaz, MaineGeneral Health’s chief medical officer, said Tuesday in a statement. “The vaccine will be distributed on a tiered system. We are first offering to vaccinate physicians and other medical staff, nursing staff and respiratory therapists who work on our COVID-19 unit, critical care unit and the emergency department as required by the state.”
First COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Maine
ELLSWORTH One thousand nine hundred and fifty Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19 arrived in Maine this morning in “the first of a number of significant steps,” Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Nirav Shah announced Monday. The 1,950 doses were delivered to Mercy Hospital in Portland and Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and should be administered beginning Wednesday.
“Collectively, this vaccine and the vaccination process that accompanies it will help us return to normal,” Shah said.
But it will take time. The 1,950 doses received today and the approximately 3,900 doses scheduled to arrive tomorrow and destined for several hospitals across the state is only a narrow sliver of the 2.6 million doses needed to immunize the entire population of Maine.
December 15th, 2020 | by: Stu Marckoon
Drug Plea
(Bangor) â A man arrested in November of 2019 with packages containing crack cocaine and a fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine mix in his pants has pleaded guilty to possessing the drugs with the intent of selling them. The US Attorneyâs Office reports to Star 97.7 that 27-year old Terrence Robinson faces up to 40-years in prison and a $5-million dollar fine. Heâll receive his sentence later after pleading guilty yesterday in federal court.
(Ellsworth) One of Ellsworthâs most anticipated annual events is Northern Light Hospitalâs Poinsettia Ball. Because the gala was cancelled this year due to COVID-19, the hospital launched the âShine A Light on Caring Campaign.â Philanthropy Officer JoAnn Brown tells Star 97.7, the campaign is an opportunity for folks to honor those who really âshineâ this year – frontline healthcare workers. Details of how to contribu