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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Samuel Rice, who moved to a house on Chick Hill Road in Clifton 10 years ago.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
A half-finished road to a popular hiking trail has split the residents of a small Maine town. The road to Chick Hill Mountain, one of the most popular hiking spots in Greater Bangor, remains unpaved.
As health companies get bigger, so do the bills. It’s unclear if Trump’s team will intervene.
This 101-year-old was the only WWII vet in Bangor’s Veterans Day Parade. Thousands of people, including Don Gallupe, honored the holiday in Brewer and Bangor on Tuesday.
A Maine community voted to allow a transgender child to play girls basketball after a packed town meeting. The 3-2 vote came after parents crowded a selectmen meeting last week to protest the child’s place on a recreational team for third- and fourth-graders.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Democrat Jordan Wood leaves Senate race to run for Jared Golden’s seat
- How a tattoo artist got involved in a Nazi symbol cover-up in the Maine Senate race
- Photos: Bangor honors Veterans Day with annual parade
- 63-year-old Mountain View Correctional Facility inmate dies
- Presque Isle Veterans Day ceremony honors those who served
- Refurbished and relocated Bowdoin observatory to open in spring
- Maine will resettle 50 white South Africans through federal refugee program
- Saco teacher captures his 3rd Guinness World Record
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“The governor has proven tireless in her work on behalf of all Mainers and she has been a strong and effective governor who embodies our Democratic values.”
LIFE IN MAINE
These lessons from Al Raychard’s grandfather helped shape his love for hunting and the Maine outdoors.
A treasured eagle feather taught a little boy a valuable lesson about how federal laws work to protect the nation’s endangered birds.
It’s rare, but there are situations where you need to know what to do if you and another hunter shoot the same deer.
This is how a Dover-Foxcroft man came to possess a 138-year-old murder weapon.