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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I am just in shock at the destruction of our agencies. They are the envy of the world, and it’s just gut-wrenching, because when you think about what we put into funding as a percentage of our federal budget, it’s small, and yet it underpins everything.”

— Deborah Bronk, president, CEO and senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay. The research institution recently lost $1 million in federal funding but is expanding in hopes of attracting funding from the private sector.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

A University of Maine professor was denied a Fulbright scholarship as the program’s board resigned over Donald Trump’s interference. Robert Glover believes his funding was denied because of “keywords” in his application that are being picked out by the Trump administration.

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is expanding at a precarious time for research institutions. After losing $1 million in federal aid, the lab hopes to attract more private sector money to be less reliant on public funding.

The Maine Senate defeated a proposal to ban transgender girls from female sports. Sen. Rick Bennett of Oxford was the lone Republican to vote with Democrats to oppose the measure.

Van Buren tore down its former “Yacht Club.” There were no actual yachts, but the building was a fixture in the Aroostook County town for more than a century and a popular social spot.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE

MAINE IN PICTURES

An excavator knocks down the pile of rubble that once was the Van Buren Yacht Club, as a nearby firetruck sprays water to settle the dust Monday. Credit: r / BDN Credit: Paula Brewer / BDN

FROM THE OPINION PAGES

Sen. Chuck Schumer, Minority Leader, D-New York, is at a nursing home in Staten Island, in New York, on March 31, 2025, to speak against the prospect of Medicaid funding cuts. Credit: Ted Shaffrey / AP

“Reduced funding will have a direct impact on workers’ wages and the basic care people receive.”

Opinion: Cutting Medicaid will harm Maine’s most vulnerable

LIFE IN MAINE

Here are seven ways you stay cool at home this summer without air conditioning.

The tiny town of Strong, Maine, used to be the “toothpick capital of the world.”