Waterville, Augusta deal with overdoses, plan for more recovery services
Emergency crews in Waterville are seeing an uptick in the number of people overdosing on opioids this winter, both on the streets and at the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. First responders and homeless ...
Rail advocates renew push for passenger service to Bangor
A bill to be heard this week seeks federal seed funding for a proposal to restore passenger service from Portland through ...
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Waterville, Augusta deal with overdoses, plan for more recovery services
Katie Spencer White, CEO of the Waterville homeless shelter, said shelter officials have seen an increase in overdoses and overdose acuity in their warming center population. During the week of ...
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Some municipal officials warn proposal to scale back General Assistance could increase homelessness
Gov. Janet Mills is proposing a cap on non-emergency housing support through GA, to reign in costs as the state faces a ...
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Hallowell begins national search for new city manager
The search, expected to take 3-4 months to complete, comes days after the City Council accepted current City Manager Gary Lamb's resignation, effective in June.
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Canadians should wait 60 days for a non-urgent MRI. In N.B., patients often wait a year
A Dieppe patient and an MRI technologist representative are calling for changes to shorten wait times for non-urgent scans in ...
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Canadians should wait 60 days for a non-urgent MRI. In N.B., patients often wait a year
Across five Horizon hospitals, the average is currently 284 days, ranging from 127 days at the Miramichi Regional Hospital to 365 days at the Upper River Valley Hospital in Waterville.