Correcting the record

A story in Monday’s State section about a downtown sidewalk improvement program in Thomaston gave the wrong year for the town’s incorporation. It was incorporated in 1777.

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A story in Monday’s State section about Belfast’s role in the first trans-Atlantic radio broadcast gave the wrong name for a ham radio operator who researched the history. He is Bruce Clark of Belfast.

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In a story that appeared on Page A2 in Monday’s paper about whether it is better to flick away mosquitoes instead of swatting them, The Associated Press erroneously attributed a passage to Roger Nasci, a mosquito expert at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention facility in Fort Collins, Colo. It was Dawn Wesson, a tropical medicine specialist at Tulane University, who pointed out that flicking the bugs off is not a permanent solution. “Unfortunately, then the mosquito often goes on to bite another person, or bites you again,” she said.