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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Sian Evans of Belfast, who over the past year started seeing checks that she regularly mailed through the U.S. Postal Service arriving weeks late or vanishing altogether.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
A disability rights group condemned Graham Platner’s use of the “R-word.” The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate used the word during an interview with the The Maine Monitor for a story that ran this past weekend.
Rural postal customers are getting frustrated as mail delivery becomes erratic. Despite the efforts of local mail carriers, residents say basic delivery is breaking down as the USPS struggles with staffing and changes intended to address its financial woes.
Penobscot Bay is the latest focus of “forever chemicals” testing in Maine. The work is part of an emerging scientific movement to research the toxic man-made compounds in local marine environments.
Northern Light has expanded its therapy dog program to Presque Isle Hospital. The health care system’s goal is to have therapy dogs regularly available at all of its hospitals across the state.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Maine Legislature passes first in the nation ban on data centers
- Maine’s highest court ‘gravely concerned’ about proposed federal ethics investigation rule
- Civil engineer sues immigration agents who violently arrested him during Maine raid
- Bangor man who murdered friend sentenced to 35 years in prison
- 20-year-old allegedly stabbed man on Bangor’s Center Street
- Milo sawmill will close this month due to rising costs, owner says
- Madawaska residents to vote on $1M Twin Rivers tax abatement
- Woman sues Maine police over traffic stop that preceded fatal crash
- Woman dies after Stockton Springs collision
- Brunswick man accused of murder held without bail
- Man accused of 4 burglaries in Rockland
- Malfunctioning sealer burns down central Maine paving company building
- A 12-year-old Skowhegan girl is missing
- Woman revived after she was pulled from a Maine river
- NH man accused of burning Maine grandfather’s cars and trucks
- UMaine defenseman picked as first team All-American
- Former high school teammate recruited UMaine baseball’s top hitter to Orono
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“If mail-in voting is convenient and valid for the president, it is convenient and valid for all Americans.”
Editorial: Trump executive order doesn’t change the fact that mail-in ballots are valid
LIFE IN MAINE
A mile of Acadia’s Park Loop Road will be closed until mid-June, but is expected to reopen by Memorial Day weekend.
They are cute, but, as Outdoors contributor Bill Graves learned, groundhogs can be very destructive.