Today is Tuesday. Temperatures will be in the high 60s to low 70s from north to south, with mostly cloudy skies throughout the state and a chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
John David Hiatt, 38, allegedly messaged the woman’s daughter and said that the Department of Health and Human Services was “coming to take away her and her siblings.”
Judy Staples and Nancy Hammond (left), volunteering with the Kindness Program, pack groceries for RSU 20 families Thursday at the First Congregational Church in Searsport. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
“I can’t bear to imagine that in America today, there are children who are hungry,” Jayne Snowdale said. “It’s really a lot sadder than I think most people understand.”
If passed, amendments to Maine’s food sovereignty act will make it easier to sell home grown and processed food in the state without a license. Credit: Dan Little / BDN
The bill would allow small, unlicensed food producers who live in municipalities where food sovereignty ordinances have been passed to sell their food items directly to customers anywhere in Maine.
In this April 26, 2021, file photo, heavy machinery is used to cut trees to widen an existing Central Maine Power power line corridor to make way for new utility poles near Bingham. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Some observers say the $950 million project’s gathering momentum could make it unstoppable.
Jim Fernald, funeral director at Brookings-Smith, shows two different green funeral caskets. Wooden dowels are used rather than nails or screws in green caskets. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
There are political, cultural and logistical challenges that could stand in the way of widespread change in the funeral industry.
