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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Jeremy Richardson, co-owner with Miriam Davidson of Log Jam Vintage, a shop opening in Bangor in May. The couple hope to use the profits from the store to maintain and rehabilitate a 200-year-old lighthouse in Jonesport.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Janet Mills unloaded on President Donald Trump after he demanded a “full throated apology” from her. “If the current occupant of the White House wants to protect women and girls, he should start by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering miscarriages and dying because they can’t get basic, life-saving health care in states across this country,” she said Monday.
Susan Collins called Trump officials texting war plans on a group chat that included a reporter “extremely troubling.” In the group chat, officials debated and discussed sensitive details about a plan to bomb Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
A new Bangor vintage store aims to support the upkeep of a 200-year-old Down East lighthouse. Log Jam Vintage will sell men’s and women’s clothing and accessories that evoke the rugged style and feel of Maine.
This midcoast escape was made out of three houses from the 1700s. The interior includes scenes of colonial life hand-painted on the walls by one-half of the couple who assembled the dwelling in 1986.
Brunswick wants to modernize its languishing rental registry. The changes, proposed by a tenants’ rights group, would put the town among a growing number in Maine to enact a tracking system for rental properties.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Potential MaineCare cuts threaten care for children and nursing home residents
- Border Patrol is ‘unlawfully’ detaining asylum seeker in Maine, petition says
- 23andMe just filed for bankruptcy. Here’s how to delete your data.
- Smoke detectors and quick-acting neighbors keep Bangor apartment fire contained
- Etna murder suspect referred for mental competency evaluation
- Holden man is back behind bars after hit-and-run conviction
- Tractor-trailer rolls over on Route 9 in Clifton
- Anyone can plant vegetables in this Houlton garden
- Presque Isle city manager resigns for 2nd time
- Acadia National Park delays car registrations for Cadillac Mountain again
- Bowdoin gets largest gift in the college’s history from Netflix co-founder
- Route 1 work will resume in Camden next month
- Mainers rally to defend transgender athletes
- Woman dies after Maine crash that killed her daughter and baby’s father
- Mainer hospitalized after knife-wielding suspect on bicycle tried to rob him
- UMaine hockey is starting to transport fans back to the Shawn Walsh era
- UMaine’s MVP goalie looking forward to NCAA debut after illness sidelined him last season
- Analysis: UMaine hockey’s NCAA tournament draw almost feels like a penalty rather than a prize
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“It shouldn’t be hard to understand that tormenting children is wrong. It is especially wrong when we know that transgender youth are at much higher risk of self harm and suicide than their cis gender peers.”
Editorial: A law shouldn’t be necessary to stop harassment of Maine children
LIFE IN MAINE
Browntail moths have a hotspot near Bangor. Numbers are down, but the defoliating moths and their itch-inducing caterpillars haven’t gone away, and their winter webs show larger populations surviving in a few pockets around the state.
Meet a Canada lynx up close in this video. It sat directly in front of Allie Ladd’s trail camera giving us a rare up-close look at this elusive cat.
We’re in the middle of an ice shack revolution. Outdoors contributor V. Paul Reynolds compares his first “plywood ‘hut’” to the Inuit ice tents that are fast replacing Maine’s classic wooden ice-fishing shacks.