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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“My son comes up to me with an Easter egg and says, ‘Dad look there’s Easter eggs here, the Easter Bunny came here.’ I opened it up and there wasn’t any candy in it; it was a flyer that was folded, folded again and then rolled up into these Easter eggs.”

— Samuel Woodman of Bangor, who said he and his family found roughly two dozen Easter eggs containing flyers with white supremacist propaganda at Talbot Park on Easter Sunday.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and unions are trying to save funding for a massive Maine battery project. Plans for what would be the world’s largest multi-day battery system hinge on a Biden-era grant that could be threatened by Donald Trump’s hostility toward renewable energy.

You have to pay the town to build a house in these parts of Maine. “Impact fees,” as they are known, are common across the country as a way to pay for public infrastructure.

The Orrington trash plant owes a contractor $26,000, the company says. Court documents offer a rare look at Eagle Point Energy Center’s finances as questions swirl about the shuttered facility.

Bangor students will have their writing featured in The New York Times. Opinion pieces from students in other states have ranged from arguing that students should get paid to go to school to advocating for hotels to be built in space. 

Construction is starting on suicide barriers along the Penobscot Narrows Bridge. The chain link fencing should be fully in place by early July.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE

MAINE IN PICTURES

A Caribou home is a total loss following a Sunday fire, but no injuries were reported. Credit: Courtesy of the Caribou Fire and Ambulance Department

FROM THE OPINION PAGES

President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Feb. 28, 2025. Credit: Mstyslav Chernov / AP

“Ever since the Trump team started its pursuit of a peaceful settlement in Ukraine, the Russian leader has continued to manipulate the Trump administration, promising steps toward a cease-fire but never curtailing its brutal attacks.”

Opinion: Trump will become another Neville Chamberlain if he abandons Ukraine

LIFE IN MAINE

The Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine plans to challenge the 72-hour gun purchase law that went into effect last year. Gov. Janet Mills allowed this law to take effect without her signature last August.

Here’s how you can weigh in on a Maine bill that would ban floating camps. The bill would establish a system of fines and allow municipal or other authorities to seize a floating camp that isn’t removed.