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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Melissa Gabriel, owner of Angel Connection in the Bangor Mall, who is facing eviction because she withheld rent over what she described as a long-term lack of heat, a leaking ceiling and incorrect electricity bills.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
A Bangor Mall business is facing eviction after its owner withheld rent. Melissa Gabriel stopped paying in part because she says a leaking ceiling went unfixed and the space was often without adequate heat.
Residents of a Bangor mobile home park got a loan to develop 28 empty lots. The loan comes after the residents raised $8 million to beat out a corporate investor and buy their own mobile home park.
Plans for a new 80-bed rehab hospital got a green light from the Bangor Planning Board. The hospital will care for patients recovering from a major injury or illness, a service that has been needed locally since Northern Light Health closed an acute rehabilitation program in 2022.
Here’s what a $1 million home looks like in different parts of Maine. What that lofty sum nets you varies from town to town in Maine and even more from end to end.
Acadia National Park lost staff under Donald Trump’s sweeping layoffs. Eight full-time staff members at the park were laid off Friday as national parks were purged of 1,000 workers nationwide.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Maine’s long-serving top fisheries official is retiring
- Top Democrat says Maine lawmaker ‘wrong’ to post about convicted police killer
- Midcoast lawmakers propose flurry of changes to ferry service
- Maine attorney general asks judge to restore 3-day waiting period for gun sales
- Nirav Shah is stepping down from US CDC
- Man allegedly dragged woman out of truck and struck her repeatedly in Holden
- Snow drifts close multiple Aroostook roads
- Bar Harbor college 1st in country to eliminate the use of single-use plasticware
- Fire reported at Blue Hill home
- 2 lawsuits accuse Maine architect of embellishing record
- Cat allegedly started fire that destroyed Unity flower shop
- Woman dies after Maine collision
MAINE IN PICTURES
MAINE TOWN OF THE WEEK
FARMINGTON: Farmington is famous for lots of things, from being the hometown of Gov. Janet Mills to being the birthplace of the earmuff. In 2006, however, a woman claimed that the Franklin County seat would be the site of a spiritual miracle. Licia Kuenning, a Quaker self-styled prophet and former Harvard University associate of psychedelic researcher Timothy Leary, said that on June 6, 2006, Farmington would be “blessed by God” and gathered a crowd of around 80 people to witness it. According to the Lewiston Sun Journal, when the miracle didn’t happen, they all went home disappointed.
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Like their Taliban compatriots, the Jan. 6 insurrectionists tried to smother a Republic; whether they succeed is up to us.”
LIFE IN MAINE
Maine’s high school basketball tournament is in full swing this week. “If you don’t like exciting basketball games, then you should probably stay away from the Cross Center in Bangor right now,” BDN Sports Editor Matt Junker wrote after a run of surprises Tuesday night.
The sportsmen’s show season kicks off this Saturday. The Cabin Fever Reliever is the first in a string of popular sportsmen’s shows held in Brewer, Orono, Presque Isle and Augusta.
Here’s a story of a striper so big it exploded the fishing rod. “It wasn’t a giant compared to what gets caught year after year, but what made it special was how it happened,” Outdoors contributor Kevin McKay writes.