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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“You are operating well outside of your lane sir, so allow me to operate well outside of mine.”
— Brennan Day, a legislator in British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly, prefacing his response to a Maine Republican’s unprompted letter laying out how provinces in western Canada could join the U.S.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
A Maine politician sent Canadians an unprompted offer to join the U.S. Sen. Joe Martin, R-Rumford, said that for “millions of people currently frustrated by central authority, moral decay, and bureaucratic suffocation [the] reward is liberty.”
Bangor’s new ice arena and rec center is in limbo after the city struck down the $68 million proposal. The facility was designed with two ice sheets, a three-court gym, a suspended track, child care areas and two outdoor turf fields.
Acadia National Park set an all-time record for monthly visits in July. The peak comes as fewer international visitors are arriving in Maine and cruise ship passengers in Bar Harbor have dropped off.
Developer proposes 200 condo units near downtown Belfast. It would be one of the largest new housing projects in the region.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Veazie apartment building fire likely started by discarded smoking material
- Volbeat, Halestorm and The Ghost Inside bring rocking metal to Bangor waterfront
- Milford School Committee member who pleaded guilty to assault resigns
- Road closed in Lincoln after wildfire breaks out
- 2 arrested in Patten drug bust
- A Nazi ad got an Aroostook County publication pulled from Hannaford
- Maine county is withdrawing from grant program because it requires cooperation with ICE
- Abandoned houseboat removed from Rockland Harbor and crunched to bits
- A Maine town has a new tax rate — $6.66
- Searsport and Stockton Springs voters reject 3rd school budget
- Bowdoin faces antitrust lawsuit after allegedly using Early Decision admissions to raise prices
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Many of our proactive legislative efforts, aimed at advancing self-determination and economic opportunity, are still in various stages of progression.”
Opinion: On Wabanaki priorities, the Maine Legislature gets an incomplete grade
LIFE IN MAINE
A Madawaska artist wants to make a 20-foot sculpture out of the old international bridge.
See an intimate play about parenthood in a “secret” Belfast location.
BDN Outdoors contributor Kevin McKay went fishing for brook trout in Labrador and found much more.