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2020: A Class Dismissed – Tim Farrelly

May 5, 2020

Varsity athlete Tim Farrelly, a senior at the Vinalhaven School, discusses how the coronavirus has impacted his last months of high school — and his final baseball season.

A photo of an empty classroom with overlayed text reading 2020: A class dismissed.

Born in the weeks and months after 9/11, and graduated in the year of a crippling pandemic, the Class of 2020 lived through some of the most profound change ever witnessed. These young adults missed out on cornerstone experiences that ease the transition from being a child to being an adult. We captured the stories of a class prematurely dismissed.

This video is part of the 2020: A Class Dismissed series. The Maine Monitor is speaking to seniors from as many Maine high schools as possible to tell the story of Maine’s Class of 2020 and how these soon-to-be graduates are dealing with the unexpected developments that come with a pandemic and a disrupted senior year. This video of Tim Farrelly was recorded on April 16.

Tim was interviewed on April 16, 2020. On that day, these were the top news stories in Maine:

Maine sees 3 more coronavirus deaths, 26 new confirmed cases (By Eric Russell of the Portland Press Herald)
Mills pauses some evictions as pandemic makes it harder for tenants to pay rent (By Caitlin Andrews of the Bangor Daily News)
Maine jobless claims decline significantly from 30,000-plus last week to 13,421 this week (By Lori Valigra of the Bangor Daily News)
Maine’s jobless could see federal unemployment funds next week, but some will have to wait longer (By Noah Flaherty of Maine Public)
Wex — whose CEO bought and sold thousands of company shares 2 days before prices dropped — announces layoffs, furloughs affecting 5% of workforce (By Glenn Jordan of the Portland Press Herald)
Belfast’s Tall Pines Retirement and Healthcare Community records 25th COVID-19 case (By George Harvey of Penobscot Bay Pilot)
Coronavirus swept through 4 Maine senior homes, even those with high Medicare scores (By Charles Eichacker of the Bangor Daily News)
Susan Collins, Angus King join presidential task force to reopen economy (By Jessica Piper of the Bangor Daily News)
Union, Bath Iron Works agree to extend contract (From Maine Public)
Maine nursing schools graduate students early so they can fight the pandemic (By Caitlin Andrews of the Bangor Daily News)
Rural counties with many seasonal homes see more coronavirus, study says (By Erin Rhoda of the Bangor Daily News)
Maine licensing boards caution doctors against prescribing unproven COVID-19 drugs (By Eric Russell of the Portland Press Herald)
Portland schools plan to hold in-person high school graduation in August (By Joe Lawlor of the Portland Press Herald)
Maine Supreme Court suspends oral arguments (By Mal Leary of Maine Public)
Maine banks recovering after stimulus checks create online traffic jams (By Renee Cordes of Mainebiz)
Windham business owners offered coronavirus impact loans (By Emily Bader of the Lakes Region Weekly)

To view more of the day’s headlines, browse our collection of the state’s best coronavirus coverage.

Check out our interactive data dashboard to explore trends in Maine’s COVID-19 cases by county, age, sex of the afflicted individuals and more in charts updated daily with data from Maine’s CDC.

Bailey Beltramo

Bailey Beltramo is an emerging photographer who grew up in Canterbury, New Hampshire. He graduated with a degree in communications from Norwich University in 2017, and continued his education through the Professional Intensive program at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography. Both his photo and film work are pursued through a documentary approach and focus on capturing human experience in outdoor environments. His published work has spanned a range of settings from life on a dude ranch in Wyoming to the lessons of a non-profit, nature-based school in New Hampshire.