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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— City Councilor Michael Beck on CSX Transportation’s plan to enforce the Friday deadline for Bangor to clear a homeless encampment that straddles both railroad and city property.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
The railroad company whose tracks run through Bangor will enforce the Friday deadline for the city’s homeless encampment closure. The encampment is spread out along the train tracks beside the Penobscot River, encompassing both CSX Transportation and city property.
The Bangor City Council is planning to bring back Zoom comments for its meetings. But there will be new stipulations, including pre-registration.
Washington County’s sheriff has called out commissioners over its plan to solve the county budget crisis. Barry Curtis said a plan advanced by officials, including a retired state trooper, would force big changes to the way his office serves the county.
Residents of a rural Penobscot County town have moved the community one step closer to dissolving. If Maxfield goes through with the decision, it will join Maine’s Unorganized Territory.
In July, a group of Food and Drug Administration panelists questioned the use of antidepressants during pregnancy. But doctors call those medications a lifeline for expectant parents.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Janet Mills will let bill limiting Maine police cooperation with ICE become law
- District attorney drops drug trafficking case after violating discovery rules
- Panel to decide if Maine high court judge violated code of conduct
- Stephen King mourns death of ‘wonderful friend’ Rob Reiner
- Rob Reiner’s son, arrested after death of his father and mother, once lived on Maine’s streets
- Dixmont man allegedly attacked people with bat and gun because he was tired of ‘drug activity’
- Graduate workers union reaches tentative agreement with UMaine System
- Orrington man accused of assaulting woman
- Aroostook blaze levels Limestone home
- Madawaska’s new town plan emphasizes collaboration with Canadian neighbors
- Fire damages Greenville’s historic Masonic lodge
- Multiple agencies aid Bucksport firefighters at intense Sunday night blaze
- Rockland councilors receive death threats over votes to restrict cooperation with ICE
- A man allegedly shot at police while leading them on a chase through 3 Maine towns
- 3 men accused of assaulting another person during Maine home invasion
- Maine behavioral health provider rejects fraud allegations it says have prompted threats
- Body found in tent in Portland
- Texan arrested in tech support scam to get gold from Mainer
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Gun violence happens much too frequently in America. It doesn’t have to.”
Editorial: America responds to a shooting with complacency. Australia pledges action.
LIFE IN MAINE
Maine’s frozen winter waterwaysoffer the perfect opportunity to explore the state on ice skates.
Returning to Maine’s ice fishing brings old surprises to life.
A Maine prisoner of war who died in World War II will return home next spring.