A version of this story first appeared in the Morning Update newsletter. Sign up here to receive the Morning Update and other BDN newsletters directly in your inbox. “We have this idea that we’re very different from people back then, but maybe not.” – Lee Hoagland, a historic preservation contractor, on his discovery of notes written by schoolchildren in the 1870s during renovation of the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus A Democratic prosecutor is trying to unseat Maine’s attorney general. The matchup will result in interesting decisions for Democratic lawmakers when they return to Augusta next month. In these parts of Maine, almost nobody can afford a home. Houses are most expensive in the southernmost Cumberland and York counties. But affordability is worst in two midcoast counties. The Bangor airport is having a record-setting year. The recent addition of Breeze Airways offering flights from Bangor to Orlando, Tampa and Fort Myers could keep the airport’s number high. The Jackson Laboratory is planning a $24 million expansion in Bar Harbor. The project marks another stage of growth for the biomedical research institution, which is one of eastern Maine’s largest employers. Hampden needs to raise $20 million for its new community center. The center would consolidate local community organizations, including the Kiwanis Club, the garden club, Boy Scouts and pottery classes, into one building. Still-readable conjugation exercises are part of a recently unearthed cache of 19th century ephemera found on the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus. The treasure trove of personal papers provides a glimpse into the private lives of post-Civil War Maine teenagers. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN “No follow-up legislation in Augusta. No second referendum. No more of the public’s business spent on flag designs.” A collection of 150-year-old children’s notes was recently discovered. The hasty, pencil-scrawled missives hint at familiar school-age concerns of unrequited love, avoiding the teacher’s attention and who was hanging out with whom after class. You can grow greens in the dark. “Soil sprouting” involves laying seeds on a pan of soil in a dark place, where they will stretch in search of sunlight. Here are some things you may not know about wild turkeys. For starters, wild turkey was probably on the banquet table at that first Thanksgiving in 1621, but it wasn’t the only meat. What happens when 2 hunters shoot the same deer? Despite having a law to address these situations, they’re not resolved easily when both hunters stake a claim to the animal.
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Editorial: No more legislative pining for the pine tree flagLIFE IN MAINE
