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Several adjustments are being made to the COVID-19 vaccine implementation plan as Alberta grapples with a looming slowdown supply from Pfizer.
Wed, 01/06/2021 - 8:45am A request for a ballot question to weigh the financial benefits of tuitioning high school students was put on hold Jan. 5 until the Wiscasset select board can discuss the proposal with school officials. A tentative meeting date is set for 6 p.m. Jan. 19 over Zoom. Passions ran high Jan. 5 when the select board took up the request to form an exploratory committee or ask voters’ approval for one. Former selectman Judith Colby and budget committee member William Maloney made the request in lieu of a petition. A copy was included in the select board’s suppor...
More Albertans have died from COVID-19 than influenza in the past ten years combined Posted Dec 16, 2020 6:31 pm MDT Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw providing an update from Edmonton on June 17, 2020, on COVID-19 and the ongoing work to protect public health. (photography by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta) (Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta) EDMONTON (660 NEWS) — Alberta’s top doctor shared a sobering statistic after the province announced its 760th COVID-19 death. “In less than ten months, more Albertans have now died from COVID-19 than have died fr...
Eleven additional COVID-19 deaths in Alberta, 1,341 new cases Last Updated Dec 15, 2020 at 4:56 pm MDT The SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab in a 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-HO-NIAID-RML) EDMONTON (660 NEWS) – Daily COVID-19 cases in Alberta saw a decrease from the previous day, as 1,341 new infections were reported on Tuesday. Active cases increased to 20,649 t...
PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Wed, 12/16/2020 - 7:30am Wiscasset’s town office remains open with COVID-19 protocols. The select board is meeting remotely over Zoom. File photo The Wiscasset Select Board unanimously renewed a license for the sale of consumer fireworks for Big Al’s Fireworks Outlet on Route 1 when they met via Zoom Tuesday night, Dec. 15. The application was made by Big Al’s Outlet owner Allen Cohen, who operates the fireworks outlet next door to his store at 300 Bath Road. “Tonight’s discussion has absolutely nothing to do with the facility on JB’s Way,...