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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Gary Gagnon on a visit by a team from Amazon during negotiations to lease a warehouse Gagnon owns in the Caribou Light Industrial Park in northern Maine.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Here’s what it took to bring Amazon to Maine. The station in Caribou, which will be the first in Maine, is part of the online megaretailer’s plan to do its own “last mile” deliveries in rural areas.
Brewer could welcome Maine’s first village of 3D-printed homes. The houses, created with technology developed at the University of Maine, have been heralded as a way to quickly build much-needed affordable housing.
Acadia National Park wants to bring wheelchair access to two of its busiest sites. The plans come at a time when the park is facing a sharp rise in visits, mounting storm damage driven by climate change and deep staffing cuts.
Planned Parenthood asked Maine for money to offset President Donald Trump’s cuts. The organization’s New England chapter is preparing to lose roughly $1 million in Medicaid reimbursements per year in Maine alone.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Maine eliminates solar subsidy program
- This is what you had to say about Bangor’s proposed ‘Barnacle’ parking enforcement
- Bird knocks out power to thousands in Bangor
- Steel pan group to play free weekly shows in downtown Bangor
- Old Town teen speaks at Senate hearing in support of diabetes research
- 25-year-old Eddington woman dead after crash
- Milford school budget partially fails 2nd time but town budget approved
- Aroostook school district that never rejected budget has now shot down 2
- Aroostook County man still in critical condition after ATV collision with SUV
- Roosevelt park to operate with fewer staff, citing loss of funds
- Ellsworth threatens to cut water to shuttered Main Street restaurant
- Rockland will vote on proposed $20.9 million public safety complex
- Runaway horse captured on I-95
- Mainer allegedly stabbed another man in the neck
- Cooper and Ace Flagg to host youth basketball camp at UMaine
- Another rising basketball star is coming home to Maine
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Americans who are today trying to raise their children to understand right from wrong face a difficult task.”
Opinion: America has lost the ability to tell right from wrong
LIFE IN MAINE
This is why the Bubbles are among Acadia’s most iconic mountains.
Knowing which kind of loon call you are hearing can help you determine whether your presence is potentially posing a threat to the animal.
Before lobster boats and runabouts, birch bark canoes plied Maine waters.
Maine’s “Moxie Festival” is this weekend, with a luau theme.