By Andrew Rice LEWISTON — School officials voted to reduce the local tax impact from next year’s school budget by 40 cents on Wednesday, despite a barrage of criticism from committee members over how the City Council has handled the…
By Joe Lawlor Jireh Nyarushatsi, a senior at Casco Bay High School in Portland, headed into the Portland Expo on Tuesday for his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The 18-year-old said he was hesitant at first, but school nurse…
By Emily Bader LEWISTON – Only two other metropolitan areas in the entire country have a higher daily average of new COVID-19 cases over the last two weeks than Lewiston-Auburn. Lewiston-Auburn has an average of 71 new cases per 100,000…
By Scott Thistle Dozens of advocates for immigrants in Maine offered their support Thursday for a bill that would restore health care benefits to thousands of non-citizen residents, many of them seeking asylum and fleeing violence in their native countries.…
By Ridwan Ali & Setareh Jalali (Tarjumaadda Soomaalida halkan guji) This week for our news show, we’re doing something a little different. Our host, Ridwan Ali, was sick this week, so we decided rather than not post any news, we…
By Andrew Rice LEWISTON, Maine — Ever since the first COVID-19 vaccines became available, Abdikhadar Shire has been urging people to get their shot when the time came. Shire is executive director of the Lewiston nonprofit AK Health and Social…
By Gabrielle Mannino AUGUSTA, Maine — In a press conference on Friday, Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced the state is adopting an age-based strategy for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and announced Maine residents age 60 and older will be eligible starting…
By Elizabeth Clemente Many things changed in Abdullahi Ali’s life when he came to Maine after growing up for nearly two decades in Kenyan refugee camps. An unexpected shift, however, came in how he viewed mental health. Ali, a native…
By Evan Popp Leaders in the Maine immigrant community came together in an online meeting Wednesday to celebrate the end of former President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban and to discuss how the policy impacted them, members of their community and…
By Evan Popp As Maine pushes forward with distributing the COVID-19 vaccine, immigrant leaders in the state are ramping up outreach efforts to ensure New Mainers have access to inoculation and information about the vaccine that can combat historically-based vaccine…