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A report launched Wednesday exhibits psychological well being, substance use and entry to care are among the many state’s high well being priorities.
The Maine Shared Group Well being Wants Evaluation, which is printed each three years, is a joint effort involving the state’s largest well being care suppliers and the Maine Heart for Illness Management and Prevention.
Along with naming priorities for enhancing Mainers’ well being, the 2022 report lists important statistics, together with main causes of loss of life. The report notes that in simply two years, COVID-19 turned the third main explanation for loss of life behind most cancers, ranked first, and coronary heart illness. As of Wednesday, 2,463 Mainers have died with COVID-19 because the pandemic started in Maine in March 2020.
The report additionally highlights “social determinants of well being” as a precedence. These embody “entry to wholesome meals, housing, water and relationships,” in accordance with the report. Additionally, diabetes, oral well being, heart problems, older grownup well being care and most cancers have been singled out as different priorities.
The report used information evaluation, 17 group boards, 9 group sponsored occasions and 1,000 oral surveys to succeed in its findings.
The 2022 report contains enter from 10 of Maine’s various communities and seeks to focus on the wants of deprived populations that features those that are Black, deaf or arduous of listening to, immigrants, these with low incomes and the homeless, in accordance with a press launch from Karen Cashman, director of public relations, advertising and marketing and communications for Northern Gentle Well being.
The statewide report and 16 County Stories will probably be utilized by hospitals, district councils, coverage makers and the Maine CDC to create group well being enchancment plans.
Within the space of psychological well being, the report states that “the provision of suppliers was probably the most often talked about indicator.”
“Group members have been involved that the pandemic exacerbated psychological well being points throughout the state, resulting in elevated isolation, trauma and stress,” the report states. “These with a psychological well being prognosis famous extraordinarily lengthy waitlists for companies, highlighting a necessity for extra high-quality psychological well being companies.”
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Horror author Stephen King’s rock ‘n’ roll radio station is going to continue rocking around the clock and into the new year.
Two businessmen purchased WKIT-FM from the best-selling writer after he announced that the station and two others would go silent after New Year’s Eve. The buyers are the Maine-based duo Greg Hawes and Jeff Solari, who formed Rock Lobster Radio Group to run the station.
“WKIT is the most legendary station in the region. It has tremendous history. We couldn’t let it die,” they said in a statement.
King is a lifelong rocker and performed with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band that featured literary icons performing for charity. He announced earlier this month that at age 77 he thought it was time to say good-bye to the radio stations.
“I’m sorry as hell to be closing down WKIT and its sister stations,” King posted earlier this month on social media. “I held off the suits for as long as I could.”
King’s foray into radio began in 1983 with the purchase of a radio station that was rebranded WZON in a nod to his book, “The Dead Zone.” That station closed before being acquired again by King in 1990.
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A suspect shot up a South Portland apartment building on Sunday night.
The suspect fired several bullets at the residence on Wainwright Circle West in Redbank Village just after 11 p.m., according to Shara Dee, a spokesperson for the city.
Officers found that several bullets penetrated the front door and had become embedded in the living room wall, Dee said Monday.
Police found several shell casings in the street outside the building.
No one was injured in the shooting.
No arrests have been made, but police identified a suspect vehicle, a light-colored four-door hatchback.
Anyone with information about the shooting can contact Detective Lt. Christopher Todd at 207-799-511, ext. 7448, or by email at christo@southportland.gov. An anonymous tip can be left at 207-347-4100.
No additional information is being released.
This comes just days after another unknown suspect fired more than a dozen bullets into a Cumberland Avenue apartment building in Portland. When police arrived early Thursday morning, they discovered numerous damaged windows and bullet holes in several apartments and shell casings in nearby Peppermint Park.
Another shooting was reported in Portland about 11:30 p.m. Sunday on Washington Avenue, where windows were shot out on a Ford Expedition. Shell casings were found on nearby Maplewood Street.
Maine Trust for Local News sports columnist Travis Lazarczyk is a voter in the U.S. College Hockey Online men’s poll. Each week he will share his top 20 votes, as well as hit on a few items of interest in the sport.
1. Michigan State
2. Boston College
3. Minnesota
4. Western Michigan
5. Providence
6. Colorado College
7. Maine
8. Denver
9. Minnesota State
10. UMass Lowell
11. North Dakota
12. St. Cloud State
13. Michigan
14. Ohio State
15. Cornell
16. Boston University
17. Quinnipiac
18. Arizona State
19. Dartmouth
20. UNH
What to do about exhibition games? That’s the question after a lot of teams returned from the break by playing either a Canadian university team, like UMass Lowell (a 2-0 win over Simon Fraser), the U.S. national development team, like Arizona State (4-3 and 1-0 wins for the Sun Devils), or a talented club team, like Colorado College and Denver did in playing UNLV. Colorado College beat UNLV, 8-0. Denver, on the other hand, earned a tie against UNLV but lost the shootout. The Pioneers did rally from a 5-1 deficit after two periods to salvage the tie, but still, Colorado College beat the same team by eight goals. Is it comparing apples to apples or apples to hockey pucks? The games don’t really count, but at the same time they count. I went with my gut and slid Colorado College up to No. 6 and Denver down to No. 8. Plenty of hockey left to sort it all out. In the case of Clarkson, which took a 5-1 loss to Concordia of Quebec, I took the Golden Knights out of the No. 20 spot and replaced them with UNH, which earned a 7-4 win over RPI, improving the Wildcats to 4-0-1 since a loss to Maine on Nov. 22.
Providence is on a roll. The Friars picked up wins over Northeastern and Dartmouth over the weekend to win the Ledyard Classic at Dartmouth, a tournament Maine won last season. Those victories improved Providence’s win streak to seven. With Maine’s loss to Bentley, it was an easy call to jump the Friars up to No. 5 on my ballot, ahead of the Black Bears. Providence is off until facing city rival Brown on Jan. 7, followed by a home-and-home against Boston College on Jan. 17-18.
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