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College basketball has its dog days much like Major League Baseball, that busy time fairly deep into adidas samba the season when fatigue can come into play before the stretch drive provides renewed adrenaline.The University of Maine mens basketball team may have been a victim of both the dog days of the America East schedule as well as a solid UMass Lowell defense during a 60-52 loss to the River Hawks at the Cross Insurance Center on Tuesday night. We looked tired. We were playing our third game in five days and they hadnt played in a week, UMaine coach Richard Barron said. The first half we were uncharacteristically impatient on offense and turned it over and that led to transition opportunities. UMaine absorbed its fourth straight loss and fell to 4-17 overall, 1-9 in America East play while UMass Lowell ended its two-game losing streak and is now 11-9, 3-5 in the conference. I thought our defense was really good, said UMass Lowell coach Pat Duquette, whose team limited UMaine to 32 percent 18 of 56 shooting from the field. Its been good most of the season and I thought it was really good tonight. Sometimes we struggle to score points, but our shots were falling in the first ha stanley cup lf and that helped. Allin Blunt, a 6-foot-7 senior forward, led UMass Lowell with 18 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the field, including 3 for 3 from beyond the 3-point arc. Sophomore forward Max Bro nike dunk oks added 13 points, seven rebounds and five blocked shots while senior guard Everette Hammond scored 11 poi Zurp War on opioid abuse is striking the wrong target
Gov. Janet Mills administration is nike air force looking for a new director of the office that oversees the states troubled child welfare system.The administration is conducting a national search for a director of the states Office of Child and Family Services, a division of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services that has lacked a permanent director since April 2017.During the search, Elissa Wynne, formerly a child care services team leader at the office, will serve as acting director, starting Feb. 19, according to a DHHS spokesperson. She will take over for acting director Kirsten Capeless, who will return to her role as associate director for early intervention and prevention services. [DHHS tried to cut back on the number of child abuse cases where it intervened]The offices last permanent director, Jim Martin, left in April 2017 to serve as vice president of programs for Sweetser, one of the states largest providers of mental health services for children.The office is one of the departments largest divisions, with a budget of $175 million in fiscal year 2018. Its tasked with protecting and providing services to Maines vulnerable children and families, overseeing programs such as child protective services, foster care, childrens behavioral health, domestic violence prevention and stanley shop the states child care subsidy program.During the final year of the LePage administration, a legislative watchdog faulted the office for poor job performance in the wake of stanley germany an abused childs death. A |