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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I think we were really attracted to the people that had a positive vision and had the ability to implement positive vision on things like housing and quality jobs and mental health and recovery and these sort of things.”
— Jack McKay, executive director of the Brewer-based nonprofit Food and Medicine, which endorsed three candidates for Bangor City Council, all of whom won.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
As the congregation dwindles at coastal Maine church, members offer property to town. Brooklin is the latest small Maine town to see its historical church close as interest in organized religion continues to drop.
How a Brewer nonprofit helped get 3 candidates elected to Bangor City Council. Food and Medicine runs programs that overlap with the Bangor City Council’s work and has been involved in elections for more than 20 years.
The peculiar history of changing residency to run for Maine’s 2nd District. In his bid for U.S. Rep. Jared Golden’s 2nd District seat, Jordan Wood is moving from his 1st District home to the Lewiston area where he grew up.
The conservative effort to take over Maine’s school boards stalled this November. Adam Zajac, a Windham school board candidate who narrowly lost after opposing transgender student protections, said he believes the election was rigged.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- The latest storm closings, cancellations and delays
- Former Republican lawmaker takes step toward running for Maine governor
- Sprinkler system stops Waterville apartment building fire
- Search underway for person missing from Peaks Island
- 1 dead, several hurt in Lewiston crash involving hair salon
- Winslow outduels John Bapst for Class D North football title
- Windjammers rise to school’s first state football championship
- UMaine football falls to Rhode Island, dashing conference title hopes
- Stearns-Schenck wins state football championship with late defensive stand
- Vermont beats UMaine hockey 2-1 to deny Black Bears sweep
- UMFK seeks public input to mark its 150th anniversary.
- Maine AG: Lincoln officers justified in fatal shooting
- Maine home affordability experts caution against Trump’s 50-year mortgage idea
- Maine’s only warming shelter north of Bangor opens Saturday
- Gardens Aglow, a bright spot in Maine winter, returns with new displays and tech
- UMaine goalie has ‘found the right headspace’ after early struggles
- UMaine women’s basketball drops close game to VCU
- UMaine soccer’s unlikely trip to NCAA tournament ends in 2-0 loss
- UMaine hockey erupts for 7-goal shutout against Vermont
- Portland survives punch after punch from Bangor in high school football thriller
- Maine’s federal job training programs will take new applications
- Ellsworth City Council election recount confirms initial results
- County man who supplied drugs to overdose victims gets 20 years
- Estranged wife of man accused of $13M marijuana conspiracy made weekly $40K cash deposits
- Connecticut man charged in Corinth homicide
- 18-year-old arrested for shooting hoax at southern Maine Hannaford
- He opened a hatch to climb onto a bus roof and then fell onto the Maine Turnpike
- New policy threatens Maine’s small rural libraries
- The federal shutdown is over but its impact on Acadia could linger
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“I’m stumped to understand how anyone could successfully ‘explain’ away the actual impact of such posts.”
LIFE IN MAINE
A Maine man has been cultivating small, flat fruit trees. Retired physician Claus Hamman of Orland has built an orchard containing 250 espaliered apple, pear, peach, quince and elderberry trees.
Follow these steps to identify birds quickly “Birds come in all sizes, from hummingbird to ostrich, but fortunately a lot of them can be grouped together by comparing them to common birds you already know,” Outdoors contributor Bob Duchesne writes.