Patty Wight
News Reporter and HostPatty is a graduate of the University of Vermont and a multiple award-winning reporter for Maine Public Radio. Her specialty is health coverage: from policy stories to patient stories, physical health to mental health and anything in between. Patty joined Maine Public Radio in 2012 after producing stories as a freelancer for NPR programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She got hooked on radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and hasn’t looked back ever since.
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Sixty-five year old Jeffery Colburn of Camden is charged with manslaughter in the death of 12-year-old Brayden Callahan. The student was struck after getting off the school bus.
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All four staff members as well as the practice's sole medical provider will be offered positions at Northern Light's primary care practice in Blue Hill, roughly 30 minutes away.
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That's much higher than the eight people that the Lewiston-based healthcare system originally reported to the Maine Attorney General's office. -
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has turned over the investigation into absentee ballots that were improperly delivered to a Newburgh resident last September to the state attorney general's office. -
The case involves two neighbors whose families have owned beachfront cottages for decades. -
Some long-term care pharmacies in Maine say they may need to reduce services because of lower prices for certain Medicare drugs that went into effect at the start of the year. -
They include codifying into state law that hospitals must give 120 days notice before closing a maternity unit. Currently giving such notice is voluntary. -
Gov. Mill's decision drew praise from tribal chiefs who said funds from online gambling will help support essential needs, including health, education, housing, law enforcement, and social services. -
Maine U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner drew yet another packed crowd to a town hall Tuesday night in South Portland, but this one had a different focus than usual: It called for taxing the rich to fund health care. -
A message on the health center's website says that two providers will relocate to Topsham Family Medicine. A third provider is leaving the practice.
