QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Gary Belanger, owner of a grapple skidder that was pulled from Portage Lake on Wednesday, almost a full week after falling through the ice.
TODAY’S TOP MAINE STORIES
The parents and grandmother of a 10-year-old who died mysteriously earlier this month have been charged with murder.
In Maine’s southernmost town, outlet stores have long been a calling card of the area. Now they are being converted to housing.
A 75-year-old sardine carrier has been leaking fuel since it sank off Harpswell in January’s storms. Raising it appears to be a longshot, but a coalition of government and private interests is trying.
Maine Democrats have proposed three gun-control bills in response to last year’s mass shooting in Lewiston, but Gov. Janet Mills has not said if she will back them.
Aroostook County is asking for help deciding how to spend $2.7 million in opioid settlement money.
MAINE IN PICTURES
MORE NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- State workers union accuses Mills administration of violating labor law
- Maine state caseworker used position to coerce a father into sex, lawsuit alleges
- 2nd attempt to overhaul Maine’s indigent defense rejected by justice
- Judge denies Bangor church’s attempt to ignore anti-discrimination laws
- Border patrol arrests 3 Chinese citizens in Aroostook County
- Worcesters fined $250,000 for building cabins tied to flagpole park
- The ‘glampground’ is gone, but Lamoine will still vote on a ban
- Pedestrian killed in Phippsburg parking lot
- Read 15 years of the Lewiston shooter’s military reviews
- Man found dead in Waterville school parking died by suicide
- 3 injured, including police officer, in 4-vehicle crash in Waterville
- Lewiston woman accused of attacking Black man with pumpkin
- 22-year-old accused of killing Fairfield man pleads not guilty
- Starbucks embarks on union negotiations after allegations of union busting in Maine
FROM THE SPORTS DESK
It’s a big, big weekend for basketball in Maine. All the state championship games for Maine high school basketball are being held this Friday and Saturday, starting with the class B championships on Friday evening at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, with Oceanside boys taking on Orono High School, and the Oceanside girls taking on Old Town High School. On Saturday, classes AA and A will hold their championships at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, and classes C and D will hold theirs on Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center. A full list of all games and their times can be found on our BDN tourney time page. Also this weekend, the University of Maine women’s basketball team hosts the University at Albany at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Memorial Gym at UMaine in Orono.
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Like all legislation, the settlement act is fluid and subject to change. In fact, the framers of the act viewed it as a “living” document. Being so, it is time to mend the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act.”
Opinion: Wabanaki would see economic boost if we amend Maine settlement act
LIFE IN MAINE
If you like sword fighting, you might enjoy UMaine theater’s “A Pirate’s Life for She.” Otherwise, the show has little to recommend it, the Bangor Daily News’ Judy Harrison writes.
The bare earth of a mild winter is bad news for cotton-white rabbits but great news for rabbit hunters, BDN Outdoors contributor Bill Graves writes.
Bats in your house? Here are ways to send them flapping.