“In solving problems, I think the people closest to the problem are often the people closest to the solution.”
— Cara Pelletier, chair of the Bangor City Council, on the $1.53 million Bangor has received in opioid settlement money since 2022, of which almost none has been spent.
Bangor has barely touched its $1.5 million to fight opioid addiction. To date, the city has spent only $19,326 on a contract with a now-defunct organization to clean up used syringes.
Maine lawmakers found themselves amid a war between Ticketmaster and StubHub. A bipartisan measure supported by independent venues would limit resale fees and markups, require up-front disclosure of costs, ban loopholes to online ticket limits and more.
Maine said it won’t sign a Trump administration order to end DEI in schools. The response came on the same day a judge temporarily blocked the federal order.
A boatbuilder has put the oceanfront Maine home he built up for sale. Bruce Cunningham started his company, Padebco, out of this property in the midcoast enclave in the 1960s.
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Man accused of dealing cocaine and ecstasy out of his Maine garden shop
New Bucksport softball coach embraces challenge of following a legend
UMaine baseball pitcher is having a career year after injury derailed last season
A boatbuilder has put his oceanfront property in the quaint village of Round Pond up for sale at $1.5 million. Credit: Courtesy of Kate Sfeir
“Social Security is an earned benefit, paid for over a lifetime of work, paycheck after paycheck, by nearly every American.”
Opinion: Social Security isn’t welfare. It’s an insurance program, funded by us.
This town is planning a monument to the military dogs of Loring Air Force Base. The $9,700 installation will include a life-size bronze German shepherd statue and a pathway of bricks with names of the dogs and their handlers.
Since the turn of the century, BirdCast has tracked migration via radar. Now that information is available online, and our birding columnist, Bob Duchesne, calls it “mind-blowing.”
Fiddlehead season is coming. Here’s everything you need to know about those tasty ferns.
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