© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsSeveral social service agencies in Portland are holding clinics to vaccinate homeless residents over the age of 50.Officials with Greater Portland Health estimate they’ve vaccinated over 200 individuals experiencing homelessness through clinics at housing sites and the Preble Street Resource Center. This week, the groups are planning to offer vaccines at hotels for the homeless community.Preble Street Health Services Director Caitlin Corrigan says several agencies have worked together to spread the word about the clinics and...…© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsSeveral social service agencies in Portland are holding clinics to vaccinate homeless residents over the age of 50.Officials with Greater Portland Health estimate they’ve vaccinated over 200 individuals experiencing homelessness through clinics at housing sites and the Preble Street Resource Center. This week, the groups are planning to offer vaccines at hotels for the homeless community.Preble Street Health Services Director Caitlin Corrigan says several agencies have worked together to spread the word about the clinics and...WW…

© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsMaine’s community colleges are offering a free college class this summer for high schoolers and incoming freshmen.Mercedes Pour, the system’s director of college access, says because of the wide-ranging effects of the pandemic last year, many students dropped out before making it to the fall, or didn’t continue into the spring.“And that was right, almost, in the bleakest part of the COVID shutdown, for Maine. So probably they got pulled, probably not to another college, they got pulled into life,” she says.She hopes that by...…© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsMaine’s community colleges are offering a free college class this summer for high schoolers and incoming freshmen.Mercedes Pour, the system’s director of college access, says because of the wide-ranging effects of the pandemic last year, many students dropped out before making it to the fall, or didn’t continue into the spring.“And that was right, almost, in the bleakest part of the COVID shutdown, for Maine. So probably they got pulled, probably not to another college, they got pulled into life,” she says.She hopes that by...WW…

© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsIn 2019, crime in Maine fell for the eighth straight year., the Maine Department of Public Safety says the overall crime rate declined by more than 6% last year. Since 2012, crimes have fallen by more than 56%.Commissioner Michael Sauschuck says the decrease is due to several factors, but he says some of it could be traced back to better information sharing and collaboration across departments.“Those things have always happened,” he says. “It’s just, I think they’re happening more and more all the time. And I think that’s...…© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsIn 2019, crime in Maine fell for the eighth straight year., the Maine Department of Public Safety says the overall crime rate declined by more than 6% last year. Since 2012, crimes have fallen by more than 56%.Commissioner Michael Sauschuck says the decrease is due to several factors, but he says some of it could be traced back to better information sharing and collaboration across departments.“Those things have always happened,” he says. “It’s just, I think they’re happening more and more all the time. And I think that’s...WW…

© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsBetween remote and hybrid classes, the pandemic has drastically altered education for high schoolers this fall and left many students and parents frustrated and dissatisfied. And those feelings could be having a major impact on how many students — particularly those from rural Maine — may choose to go on to college.As the school day gets underway at Bucksport High School, Principal Josh Tripp welcomes students as they hop off the bus. There was a time when many would have already had their lives planned out: graduate from...…© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsBetween remote and hybrid classes, the pandemic has drastically altered education for high schoolers this fall and left many students and parents frustrated and dissatisfied. And those feelings could be having a major impact on how many students — particularly those from rural Maine — may choose to go on to college.As the school day gets underway at Bucksport High School, Principal Josh Tripp welcomes students as they hop off the bus. There was a time when many would have already had their lives planned out: graduate from...WW…

Pandemic Challenges Band Students To Stay Safe While Practicing Because of COVID-19 protocols, school band classes have been moved to parking lots and athletic fields. Students attach coverings to the end of their instruments to stop droplets from getting out.Heard onRobbie FeinbergFromToggle more optionsBecause of COVID-19 protocols, school band classes have been moved to parking lots and athletic fields. Students attach coverings to the end of their instruments to stop droplets from getting out.STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:For schools that are back in person, music class presents a challenge....…Pandemic Challenges Band Students To Stay Safe While Practicing Because of COVID-19 protocols, school band classes have been moved to parking lots and athletic fields. Students attach coverings to the end of their instruments to stop droplets from getting out.Heard onRobbie FeinbergFromToggle more optionsBecause of COVID-19 protocols, school band classes have been moved to parking lots and athletic fields. Students attach coverings to the end of their instruments to stop droplets from getting out.STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:For schools that are back in person, music class presents a challenge....WW…

Maine Public RadioRelated Program: Related Program: Listen Listening... 4:26 Alfond Foundation Announces $500 Million In New Grants The Harold Alfond Foundation today announced that it was to aid organizations around the state, with a particular focus on higher education. The foundation says the groups will receive millions to create new programs, scholarships and buildings that it says will help boost the state’s workforce and economy going forward. Greg Powell, chairman of Harold Alfond Foundation, spoke with All Things Considered host Nora Flaherty about where the $500 million...…Maine Public RadioRelated Program: Related Program: Listen Listening... 4:26 Alfond Foundation Announces $500 Million In New Grants The Harold Alfond Foundation today announced that it was to aid organizations around the state, with a particular focus on higher education. The foundation says the groups will receive millions to create new programs, scholarships and buildings that it says will help boost the state’s workforce and economy going forward. Greg Powell, chairman of Harold Alfond Foundation, spoke with All Things Considered host Nora Flaherty about where the $500 million...WW…

© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsMost colleges in Maine have resumed in-person classes this fall, but with all kinds of new precautions: masks, travel restrictions, socially distanced classes and “no-party” policies among them. Yet a small group of professors and students at Bar Harbor’s College of the Atlantic has been able to avoid those restrictions, and are meeting in-person with no social distancing required.The idea began mostly as a joke at a College of the Atlantic faculty meeting earlier this year.“When we were discussing how we were going to...…© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsMost colleges in Maine have resumed in-person classes this fall, but with all kinds of new precautions: masks, travel restrictions, socially distanced classes and “no-party” policies among them. Yet a small group of professors and students at Bar Harbor’s College of the Atlantic has been able to avoid those restrictions, and are meeting in-person with no social distancing required.The idea began mostly as a joke at a College of the Atlantic faculty meeting earlier this year.“When we were discussing how we were going to...WW…

© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsThe Rural Maine Reporting Project is made possible through the generous support of the Betterment Fund.of a 145-mile proposed transmission line through Western Maine are launching to let voters have a say on the project.Several opponents filed paperwork this week for a new referendum against the controversial Central Maine Power proposal. Earlier this year, the groups gathered enough signatures on a ballot measure requiring the Maine Public Utilities Commission to reverse its approval of the project, but the state Supreme...…© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsThe Rural Maine Reporting Project is made possible through the generous support of the Betterment Fund.of a 145-mile proposed transmission line through Western Maine are launching to let voters have a say on the project.Several opponents filed paperwork this week for a new referendum against the controversial Central Maine Power proposal. Earlier this year, the groups gathered enough signatures on a ballot measure requiring the Maine Public Utilities Commission to reverse its approval of the project, but the state Supreme...WW…

© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsAuthorities confirmed Tuesday that a New York City woman was attacked and killed by a great white shark off the coast of Harpswell earlier this week. It’s the first recorded fatal shark attack in the state’s history.Maine Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher identified the victim as 63-year-old Julie Dimperio Holowach of New York City, who was swimming in a wetsuit with her daughter about 60 feet off Bailey Island when she was attacked by a great white shark. Kayakers spotted them and quickly paddled...…© 2022 Maine PublicPlay Live Radio0:000:00Available On Air StationsAuthorities confirmed Tuesday that a New York City woman was attacked and killed by a great white shark off the coast of Harpswell earlier this week. It’s the first recorded fatal shark attack in the state’s history.Maine Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher identified the victim as 63-year-old Julie Dimperio Holowach of New York City, who was swimming in a wetsuit with her daughter about 60 feet off Bailey Island when she was attacked by a great white shark. Kayakers spotted them and quickly paddled...WW…