The failure was the result of heavy rain in the area, according to the Maine Department of Transportation. The detour affects traffic that primarily consists of logging vehicles and other commercial trucks.
A sister business of John Hancock Life Insurance has purchased the property for an undisclosed price, as part of the company's portfolio of climate-friendly investments.
The grant will pay for equipment upgrades over the next five years at the clinic in northern Somerset County, as the Bangor-based health care system continues to work on ways to provide health care access for the remote area.
A pilot telehealth-based program “gets paramedics off the ambulance” so they can provide care wherever it’s needed. The initiative is already making a difference in northern Somerset County, and could be a model for other rural areas in Maine and elsewhere.
The Jackman program, which will allow trained paramedics to perform emergency care via telehealth, and a similar one in Winterport for primary care physicians may help close the rural health care access gap in Maine, officials say.
Canadian Pacific will now have access to Central Maine & Quebec Railway’s 481 miles of track in Maine, Vermont and Quebec, and can link to shipping at Searsport via Eastern Maine Railway.
Border restrictions between the U.S. and Canada, which may soon be renewed, don't apply to most commercial traffic and returning citizens. Nevertheless, travel into Maine fell over 40% in the first month of the pandemic.