— University of Maine at Augusta graduate student Heidi Toner on a homeless encampment near the school’s Bangor campus and a recent shooting in a school parking lot
TODAY’S TOP MAINE STORIES
A Hermon solar company that is already the subject of two lawsuits and complaints to authorities has now run afoul of the state’s tax department.
Four Orono residents are suing the town and Bangor Natural Gas over plans for a new gas regulating station near their home.
About 200 people in the Penobscot County town of Plymouth have been advised to use only bottled or filtered water after officials found high levels of PFAS in their drinking water.
Fort Kent businesses and community members are reeling after the cancellation of the Can-Am sled dog race.
Houlton’s Church of the Good Shepherd anticipates putting 400 pounds of Maine lobster meat into lobster rolls for about 1,600 people congregating in town for the April total solar eclipse.
MAINE IN PICTURES
The Mayo Mill Dam in Dover-Foxcroft, pictured above, has numerous structural deficiencies and has long been out of compliance with federal regulations, which means the town must decide whether to remove or repair it. Read the story, courtesy of The Maine Monitor. Photo by Garrick Hoffman.
MORE NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- These Maine Republicans are backing Nikki Haley over Donald Trump
- Maine House backs Republican-led harassment training bill targeted at Aaron Frey
- Janet Mills proposes exempting all nonprofits from sales tax
- This century-old law complicates offshore wind development
- Danny Cashman is ending ‘The Nite Show’
- US presidential plane flying low over Bangor
- Maine is stepping up HIV testing after increase in Penobscot County cases
- Workers race to get logging truck off frozen Maine lake before ice melts
- Castine man to become Ellsworth’s next city manager
- Army gave Lewiston killer high marks in review 6 months before massacre
- 19-year-old remains in critical condition after I-95 crash
- Illegal marijuana growing operation raided in Madison
- Driver killed in Maine Turnpike crash in York
- Teen pleads not guilty in Saco shooting
- Maine town will demolish outlet mall to make room for new housing
WE RECOMMEND…
If you’re looking for a way to reduce the amount of waste you produce while also getting something in return, try 1 Earth Composting, a curbside composting service that launched last year in Bangor, Brewer and Hampden. You put your food scraps and compostable materials in your provided 5-gallon bucket, set it out on the curb for a Tuesday morning pickup, and receive a clean bucket swapped out for the next week. The service is $25 per month, and users get a 5-gallon bucket of rich, fertile soil in the spring for their gardens, and a discount on further soil purchases. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 24 percent of all municipal refuse is food waste, and with recycling at a virtual standstill in the Bangor area, this is one way to make an actual impact.
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Officials can try to shroud their bullying in a cloak of religion and political ideology, but it is still bullying. Those referred to as ‘filth’ are human beings. Attacking and demonizing them does not seem very moral to us.”
Editorial: Stop bullying LGBTQ+ youth with laws and policies that exclude them
LIFE IN MAINE
Mainers aren’t known for high fashion, but the state has produced items that stylish folks from all over the world will recognize.
With spring temperatures this week, you might not want to wait to get your ice shack off the lake.
BDN Outdoors contributor Ron Chase takes us on a snowshoe trip on the Maine Huts and Trails network.
