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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Our hope and dreams is that we find some funding and we can provide meals for folks for free.”
— Joseph Hartel, interim executive director of The Together Place, a recovery and peer support center in Bangor that lost crucial state funding earlier this year.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
There are still no answers two months after a Maine comfort dog died in a hot car. Baxter, a 3-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever, died May 29 after he was left in a hot car parked at the Bangor Regional Communications Center.
A Bangor recovery group is struggling to stay afloat after a catastrophic loss in funding. The Together Place lost its state grant earlier this year, which accounts for more than 40 percent of the organization’s budget.
A Bitcoin kiosk business is blaming a new Maine law for the closure of locations across the state. That law requires licenses for kiosk operators and caps the fees they charge at either $5 or 3 percent of the transaction’s dollar amount, whichever is greater, as well as capping daily transactions.
A longtime Aroostook County marijuana business was suddenly upended by state law change. Why Derrell Richardson ran into problems highlights some of the growing pains state and local officials have experienced while seeking to manage Maine’s increasingly lucrative medical marijuana industry.
You could live next to Stephen King for less than $1 million. Properties in this section of West Broadway very rarely change hands, and often house Bangor’s most prominent or successful residents.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Shenna Bellows rejects Trump administration’s request for Maine voter data
- Maine is suing the Trump administration over blocking Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood and Maine Family Planning
- Social Security staffing cuts hit Maine hard, increasing wait times and stress for residents
- EPA moves to repeal finding that allows climate regulation
- Northern Light Health names new president and CEO
- Water will be shut off on multiple Bangor streets Thursday
- There will be no parking on this downtown Bangor street the next 2 days
- A Hampden road will close next month for bridge repairs
- 1 dead and 1 seriously injured in Alton crash
- Traffic permit paves the way for Aroostook’s 1st Wendy’s and Aroma Joe’s
- A nautical-themed Irish pub is coming to Camden
- Searsport threatens to crack down on messy, late night squid fishing
- Appeals court rules against Maine mother who argued school concealed child’s gender transition
- Search suspended for humpback whale reported entangled off Lincolnville
- Maine town is removing abandoned boat filled with used needles
- ICE arrests Maine police officer it alleges was in the US illegally
- New golf program for Penobscot Nation youth gets boost from world record course
- Maine golfer accomplishes rare feat not seen in state for more than 30 years
- You can buy UMaine men’s hockey tickets starting next month
- UMaine women’s soccer picked 3rd in preseason poll
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“At Northern Light Health, we believe that decisions about care and medical services should be made by patients and their health care providers, and not by insurance companies whose ultimate loyalty is to their shareholders.”
Opinion: Mainers need access to doctors and medical facilities of their choice
LIFE IN MAINE
A Maine mud run became a bonding moment for Outdoors contributor Paige Emerson.
After Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife reported that largemouth bass had been illegally released in a Washington County lake, V. Paul Reynolds calls attention to how rarely perpetrators are caught.
A Hancock County resident has been hospitalized with the tickborne Powassan virus, and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday it had recorded its first case of West Nile virus in a York County crow.