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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It’s all about a wildlife preserve, really. Always has been since before we bought it. No shiny gold Trump tower is going up anytime soon.”

— Anthony Fratianne, co-president of Trump Timberland, a Florida company formed around Donald Trump Jr.’s purchase of 3,900 acres in northern Maine in 2024.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Maine’s health care “mess” is a focus of the crowded race to replace Gov. Janet Mills. Solutions to the crisis may just decide who rises to the top in the crowded race for Maine governor. 

Here’s what we know about Donald Trump Jr.’s plans for his Maine hunting land. The president’s son and his company bought 3,900 acres from the family of former state Rep. Austin Theriault in 2024.

A whimsical Maine home for sale was the life’s work of one man. Among other touches, two beds in the home are suspended, which the owner created to mimic the gentle rock of ocean waves.

Something is happening at a long-dormant Bucksport riverfront industrial site. An application to the state to modify a pier is the first major sign of life there in years.

Lincoln’s new leader has big hopes for the former mill town. The town is one of many in Maine that once revolved around a mill and is now trying to reestablish itself.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE

MAINE IN PICTURES

Visitors walking along a busy Cadillac Summit Road in an undated photo. Acadia National Park is constructing a new trail at the mountain’s summit to prevent pedestrians from having to walk on the roadway. Credit: Courtesy of Friends of Acadia

FROM THE OPINION PAGES

Passengers enter the Transportation Security Administration “PreCheck” line at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, as the Department of Homeland Security continues to go unfunded, in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday. Credit: Kylie Cooper / Reuters

“Expecting the workforce responsible for this mission to operate indefinitely without pay sends the wrong message about how seriously we take aviation security.”

Opinion: America cannot secure its airports with unpaid labor

LIFE IN MAINE

An ice jam as the rivers thaw caused floodingin a northern Penobscot County town on Tuesday and Wednesday. 

A potato storage building in Aroostook Countywas decimated by an early morning fire Wednesday. 

Early mornings in Maine are a lot like the one described in a famous children’s story, RJ Heller writes.