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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“They kinda set us up for failure. I’m hoping this time they actually follow through.”
— Jennifer Marshall, a resident of a homeless encampment in Bangor that the city is planning to clear later this month, on the city’s past efforts to find her and her boyfriend sustainable housing.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Bangor is about to close its largest homeless camp with few plans for the people there. It will be the third major encampment forcibly closed in less than three years, and each time a new camp has formed elsewhere in the city.
Maine is trying to ban a quickly growing side of the gambling industry. It is a part of a national effort to get a grasp on an emerging style of betting that competes with state-regulated sportsbooks and online casinos.
Conservative groups will pay to defend schools that are fighting Maine over transgender policies. Alliance Defending Freedom will cover legal fees incurred in lawsuits filed by the Maine Human Rights Commission last month.
A Bangor-area man who avoided $1 million in taxes was sentenced to two years in prison. Paul Archer pleaded guilty to two felonies that were part of what Judge Stacey Neumann called a “continued fraud.”
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Maine to issue cold-case playing cards to prison inmates
- 31st HIV case detected in Penobscot County outbreak
- A farm-to-table program for Aroostook schools is drawing attention from state lawmakers
- 3 of Aroostook’s largest high schools consider consolidation
- New study shows housing ‘death spiral’ hitting 2 coastal Maine towns
- Feds arrest Iraqi man in Ellsworth after he tried to buy guns
- Bus driver in crash that killed child no longer works for Rockland school district
- Trump comments instill mix of fear and resolve in Maine’s Somali community
- Man killed in remote Maine house fire
- Someone stole $20K worth of oysters and cages from Maine aquaculture site
- Gorham residents air concerns about proposed Amazon warehouse
- Bangor sports fixer sets his sights on boys high school basketball team
- Top high school football star staying in Maine to play for Black Bears
- UMaine and UNH renew one of the best rivalries in college hockey
- UMaine men’s basketball falls to Ohio
- UMaine women’s basketball loses on the road to Penn
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Charles taught us that real strength can be measured in humility, in perseverance, and in the willingness to shoulder responsibility when others turn away.”
Opinion: Honoring Charles Norman Shay, a quiet warrior and teacher
LIFE IN MAINE
An Aroostook man who died when his plane was shot down over France during World War II has finally returned home.
This former vegetarian anti-hunter just shot her first Maine buck.
This short hike leads to a series of waterfalls in Nahmakanta Public Lands.