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MACHAIS — Healthy Acadia invites the community to a Buoy Up to Cancer “Tree of Hope” ceremony on Saturday, June 4 at 10 a.m. at the Machias public boat landing, adjacent to Helen’s Restaurant on U. S. 1. The event marks the end of a six-month awareness-building and fundraising campaign to honor and remember loved ones, patients, caregivers, family, and friends whose lives have been touched by cancer, and to support the Downeast Cancer Patient Navigation Program.  The Buoy Up to Cancer campaign kicked off in early December.

C. J. McCarthy’s two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning gave SUNY Oswego the lead for good as the Lakers ousted Husson University 12-10 in an elimination game at the NCAA Division III baseball regional in Ambler, Pennsylvania. McCarthy’s homer gave SUNY Oswego a 9-8 lead on Saturday before the game was suspended after seven innings due to darkness and resumed Sunday morning. The Lakers came back and scored one run in the top of the eighth inning and two more runs in the top of the ninth to extend their lead to 12-8. Husson scored twice in the bottom of the ninth, with one run coming home on an Ethan Stoddard single, but the Eagles could not get closer. SUNY Oswego (31-11) was set to face host Arcadia University (40-7) in the championship round later Sunday, with the Lakers needing two wins to advance to the NCAA super regionals while Arcadia needed just one more victory. Husson, which scored its first NCAA tournament victory since 2009 with a 13-12 win over Elizabethtown College earlier Saturday, finished its stay at the regional with a 1-2 record and its season at 25-17. SUNY Oswego jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning against Husson, but the Eagles took their first lead with four runs in the bottom of the third.

Top-ranked Lidia Gomez Carrera of Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield and No. 6 Fabienne Nowak of Piscataquis Community High School in Guilford will be competing for the state schoolgirl tennis singles championship on Monday. Gomez and Nowak advanced to the semifinals by winning three matches apiece during early round play Friday and Saturday at the Wallach Tennis Center on the campus of Bates College in Lewiston. The two international students will play in separate semifinals at the same location beginning at 9:30 a.m.

A 19-year-old Wells man has been arrested and charged with murder after three people were shot at a home on Saturday, the Maine State Police said. Andrew Huber Young is accused of shooting three people — two adult men and a child — at a home at 97 Crediford Road.

WASHINGTON — In February 2020, environmental engineers Aaron Bivins and Kyle Bibby launched an informal collaborative with a few fellow researchers, hoping to share tips and strategies on monitoring wastewater for signs of the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic. By April 2022, that group ballooned to more than 1,300 analysts and professionals worldwide, with a Slack account promoting new research and making introductions — all part of an effort to facilitate early information-sharing that didn’t exist at the federal level. “I’ve been on calls with teams all over the country, just kind of kicking ideas around and brainstorming and troubleshooting,” said Bivins, an assistant professor at Louisiana State University. The informal conversations underscore how national wastewater surveillance efforts are struggling with questions around sustained funding, geographical limitations and just what states should do with the data. Public health experts hope the technology will help monitor threats beyond COVID-19, like opioids and the flu, but the strategy requires resources and political buy-in.

A warrant has been issued for a Jay man who led police on a multi-town car chase on Friday night. Warrants have been issued for 33-year-old Barry Hall’s arrest for eluding an officer, operating after habitual offender revocation, driving to endanger, criminal speed and violation of bail, according to the Maine State Police.