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Good morning from Bar Harbor, where the streets are as busy as they'll ever be as everyone looks to get in that last gasp of summer. The air this week was cooler, with just the slightest hint of fall.

This felt like the week of traffic impediments and big unwieldy things getting stuck in odd places. There was the giant wind turbine blade that hit a bridge in Stockton Springs, the tractor trailer that jackknifed and blocked of the one of the busiest roads on Mount Desert Island and the downed lines that stopped traffic on the Deer Isle causeway. 

Thankfully no one was hurt in any of these incidents, but all three roads are the primary — and in the case of Deer Isle, the only — thoroughfare for many communities, and their closures were a reminder that sometimes you really just can't get there from here.

As need for dementia specialists grows, one rural clinic takes a hybrid approach 

In the oldest state in the country, a tenth of Mainers over the age of 65 have dementia. But the number of dementia specialists, across multiple disciplines, has remained low and in some cases is shrinking.

At the Aroostook Memory Care Center, in Presque Isle, a dementia specialist meets with staff to review patient files and advise primary care doctors — from 150 miles away.

Read this story by Rose Lundy of The Maine Monitor

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ICYMI from The Monitor: A nearly $5 million federal grant recently awarded to the University of New England will be put toward efforts to improve Maine’s workforce supporting geriatric care over the next five years.

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