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The recipients plan to use the funds to improve access to health care, with the goals of building healthy communities, strengthening the health care workforce and achieving health equity. 

The Maine State Nurses Association is petitioning to represent 1,600 nurses at Maine Medical Center, or about one-sixth of the hospital's workforce. Two previous organizing attempts since 2000 have failed.

Merriwood Sustainable Community, near Calais, will feature million-dollar homes with high-end amenities. And starting next week, you can get your name on a list to reserve one of 44 available properties — for a $25,000 fee.

The strike is planned for Nov. 18-19 and could involve about 40 members of the Maine State Nurses Association who work at the 200-employee hospital.

The owners of the grocery, variety store and car wash chain are reportedly selling the properties in order to focus on their supermarket businesses. The buyer is a Massachusetts company that operates variety stores and gas stations across the Northeast.

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.

The 25-bed hospital in Washington County is in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings, and the coronavirus crisis has only worsened the situation. The hospital says federal relief hasn't been of much help.

Maine is running out of telephone numbers in its “207” area code — a series of digits that has come to be an icon for the state, and for many businesses.

Kennebec Valley Community College and Washington County Community College are competing for the prestigious national award that recognizes student outcomes, including employment and earnings.

The selected developer of the McGlashan-Nickerson House, on the property of the Saint Croix International Historic Site in Calais, will get up to a 60-year lease for rehabilitating and using the 136-year-old house.