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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Pizza was one of my first passions. I love going home smelling like a pizza shop.”
— Dan Baldridge, who is opening his new business, Danny’s Pizza, in Ellsworth at a location where another pizzeria closed earlier this year.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Jared Golden has more than $1 million in campaign money he no longer needs. The question of what to do with remaining campaign funds is something that past candidates from both parties have navigated.
Brewer’s new leaders are afraid county budget woes could scare new businesses away. The Penobscot County budget accounted for 47% of last year’s tax growth in Brewer, according to Mayor Jenn Morin.
A new pizzeria is opening in the same Ellsworth spot where another closed earlier this year. Dan Baldridge, a fixture in Bar Harbor’s restaurant industry, is opening Danny’s Pizza in Mill Mall.
A lakefront house for sale in Piscataquis County right now has a recording studio in the basement. The estate is among many on the lake that were updated or converted into comfortable year-round homes around the pandemic.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Veteran Maine journalists to lead BDN’s Aroostook and coastal coverage
- Jared Golden to force vote on reversing Trump order targeting unionized federal workers
- State employees union accuses Mills administration of bad faith bargaining
- Maine center guiding local opioid settlement spending says data will be public early next year
- Agencies that help Mainers navigate Medicare are overbooked as enrollment deadline looms
- Bangor-Brewer bridge will be limited to one-way traffic during construction next year
- Former City Council chair remembered for his resourcefulness, love of Bangor
- He allegedly broke into a Bangor apartment, slept on a couch and then refused to leave
- Bangor man convicted of 2019 murder says attorneys didn’t have his best interest at heart
- Aroostook man who died from carbon monoxide poisoning remembered as ‘very caring’
- State approves construction funds for Frenchville school lost to fire
- Victim of fatal Down East fire identified as the homeowner
- Community center on Isle au Haut gets the go-ahead
- Colby College buys site of midcoast general store that burned down
- Passenger dies after I-95 crash in Clinton, while driver still missing
- Lewiston swears in 1st female police chief
- Southern Maine mother and kids in ICE custody after trying to flee to Canada
- A homeless encampment has been cleared near a Maine high school
- Rare win on Boston College’s ice could prove valuable for UMaine hockey
- Star linebacker for UMaine football named 1st team all-conference
- UMaine men’s basketball has the worst scoring offense in the country, at least for now
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“President Trump’s lack of morality, his avarice and his cowardice are the perfect storm for testing the upper limits of our armed forces’ commitment to American values.”
Opinion: Yes, military members can refuse illegal orders, but it must be crystal clear why they are unlawful
LIFE IN MAINE
The “Big Brother Bill” could affect Maine hunters and anglers in parts of the state.
The best ricotta in the world is made in Skowhegan.
Someone has been poaching deer in Down East Maine.