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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I think when you have sort of a narrow subject, things can actually get really wild and broad.”
— Em Gift, owner of Working Loose, a Blue Hill exhibition space currently hosting the “Shoe Show,” featuring, among other shoes and shoe-themed art, a granite sneaker that visitors can try on.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Can this plan to transform Maine’s youth prison win over Janet Mills? The bill from Rep. Michael Brennan. D-Portland, revives a dormant effort to stop using Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland in its current form.
Boothbay-area officials are still in the dark about the FBI’s probe of the local waste station. The FBI initially said it was at the Boothbay Refuse Disposal District’s transfer station doing “routine law enforcement activity.”
You could stack three Paul Bunyan statues in Bangor’s newest water tank. The Bangor Water District started using the newly constructed tank near the corner of Cleveland Street and Venture Way on Tuesday.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Aroostook’s only homeless shelter seeks a lifeline from Presque Isle
- Plans unveiled for Maine’s tallest building
- Today is the deadline for Mainers to comply with Real ID
- Janet Mills lets Maine child marriage ban become law without her signature
- Brewer OKs new $29M school budget
- Maine university system will make more financial aid awards to grad students
- Dixmont woman gets 5 years in ongoing prosecution of northern Maine drug ring
- Man accused of assaulting Maine police officer
- Missing Cape Elizabeth woman has been found safe
- Man accused of causing $22K in damage at Carmel recreational field and ballpark
- Janet Mills and northeastern governors invite Canadian premiers to summit
- How Stephen King’s love of baseball helped generations of young Bangor athletes
- Official Cooper Flagg NBA draft watch party will benefit Ronald McDonald House
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Are visitors interested in seeing the condor fly again over the Grand Canyon, Pinnacles or Zion? The peregrines flying and nesting in Acadia? Grizzlies or wolves taking down a bison in Yellowstone? Old Faithful erupting?”
Opinion: Protect our national parks, don’t exploit them
LIFE IN MAINE
A new exhibit in Blue Hill celebrates “furniture for our feet.” The lineup includes a granite sneaker that visitors can try on, artful cowboy boots, sneakers turned into heels and more.
This central Maine property for sale has a volleyball court and a turret. The model home was repossessed by the bank in the early 2000s after the builder went out of business.
A recent bill to increase fishing license fees to raise more money for hatcheries got a lot of people talking. Contributor Bob Mallard weighs in on the real cost of the state’s trout stocking program.