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Paying a visit to ‘Mr. Ben’s Playhouse’
BANGOR – There’s a brand-new Saturday morning crew coming to screens near and far courtesy of Penobscot Theatre Company.
“Mr. Ben’s Playhouse” is the latest offering as part of PTC’s Digitus Theatrum season, a collection of digital and streaming works assembled as a way to carry forward the theatre’s mission in the face of the ongoing pandemic.
The show, consisting of five 15-minute episodes, is inspired by an assortment of children’s programming and features a motley crew of people and puppets, including a number of favorites from the greater PTC community. The first episode, with the theme of “Imagination,” arrived on Jan. 9, with subsequent episodes – addressing a variety of themes ranging from listening to fitness to empathy – landing each following Saturday.
All five episodes can be purchased for $40 and all will remain available throughout the series run. If you’d like to purchase access to “Mr. Ben’s Playhouse” or get more information, visit the Penobscot Theatre website at www.penobscottheatre.org or call the box office at 942-3333.
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COVID-19 Jan. 17 Update: Amid new outbreaks at Winterberry Heights and Westgate, coronavirus deaths hitting nursing homes the hardest
(EDITOR'S NOTE: For reporting purposes, case counts are actually tabulated the prior day and those tabulations are often adjusted up or down. This is due to Maine CDC investigators determining which actual new or current cases may not qualify to be classified as COVID-19 cases, especially when it comes to probable cases. Some days are actually adjusted upward, while cases are more often revised downward upon subsequent investigations. Therefore, The Maine Edge uses adjusted net figures first when determining actual daily variances instead of the number of newly reported cases that may end up not qualifying or being adjusted. In the case of a prior day's figures being revised upward, both will be included since the prior day was underreported.)
DAILY UPDATE: Current information as of 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan 17 with CDC data as of 11:59 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16. Some figures have been updated due to newly obtained data.
AUGUSTA - Cases related to COVID-19 rose on Sunday at a much more muted clip, capping a week that saw thousands of new cases pile on across the state. The 342-case rise brought Maine’s total case count to 33,559, just days after setting new single-day and weekly records, according to data from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC).
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The Maine Edge Year in Review: 2020
I’ll be honest – after the seemingly unending bizarreness of 2020, I strongly considered giving our annual Year in Review edition a miss. Was this a year that people wanted to look back on? Did I want to look back?
Ultimately, I decided we should go forward. After all, even as we continue to deal with the ongoing issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, life has gone on. It has gone on differently, rife with challenges both large and small, but it has gone on.
We here at the Edge encountered our own challenges, including shutting down our print edition for over three months, from mid-March to the end of June. However, we kept producing new content for our website and generally refused to go anywhere. We resumed printing in July, spending a couple of months as a bi-weekly publication before finally resuming our usual weekly run this fall.
We also bore witness to just how hard it was for our longtime partners, the many local businesses who have been loyal advertisers, the arts and cultural organizations who have been in many ways our raison d’etre and – of course – our readers, without whom we wouldn’t be here. This year, more than any other, we want to express our gratitude for the support we’ve received from so many.
And so, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past year.
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