— Nicole DiGeronimo, director of homeownership and financial counseling for Avesta Housing. The nonprofit just put its first two houses on the market as part of a program to make home ownership available to people who have been priced out of Maine’s hot housing market.
A harbor seal looks around in Casco Bay off Portland in this July 30, 2020, file photo. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
From the Opinion Pages
“The existing county jail in Bangor has legitimate problems, but we do not believe spending millions in taxpayer dollars on a brand new, much larger, jail is the solution.”
🥾 Twenty-five awesome lesser-known Maine hikes. “I've discovered a number of jackpot hiking spots that don't seem to get a lot of foot traffic,” Outdoors contributor Aislinn Sarnacki writes.