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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Kevin Lavoie, director of the St. John Valley Technology Center, where students are fabricating a 20-foot Acadian star from pieces of the former international bridge between Madawaska and Edmundston, New Brunswick. The sculpture will welcome visitors to Madawaska.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
A provocateur named “Corn Pop” could change Maine’s free-speech rules forever. A U.S. District Court ruling only directly addresses Augusta, but it may reverberate across the state.
Democrats running for Jared Golden’s seat debated Tuesday. All of them indicated they would break from their predecessor’s legacy.
We asked the gubernatorial candidates how they’d fix the state’s housing crisis. Here’s what they said. While most agree on the problem, their plans for improving it vary drastically.
An Orono group is planning new ways to improve the downtown. Orono is one of several communities in Greater Bangor trying to revamp their centers to bring in more people.
The state is working to strengthen the 87-year-old bridge to Deer Isle and Stonington. Officials and residents have worried for years about the functionality of the soaring bridge and how long it might take to replace.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Graham Platner reveals his wife had a miscarriage
- Pro-Collins super PAC attacks Graham Platner weeks before Democratic primary
- Angus King III pledges 10,000 housing units annually if elected governor
- Off-grid $400K cabin on a private Down East island selling for the first time in 40 years
- Bangor’s Fairmount School to be temporarily closed due to asbestos
- Hampden woman who slit boyfriend’s throat in 2018 dies in prison
- Charges dropped against man accused of assaulting Hermon group home resident
- You have a chance to shape the future of Maine’s national monument
- Maine woman accused of assaulting her partner
- 1st trans woman to compete in Miss Maine pageant plans to try again
- Maine man drives to find help after setting himself on fire
- Granite sculptures will soon line Ellsworth’s riverfront trail
- Body of missing midcoast man found in Waldoboro
- Midcoast town defends its decision to block a proposed cellphone tower
- Man accused of meth trafficking in Rockland
- House fire leaves 1 dead in Skowhegan
- Portland approves buffer zone that could derail proposed Live Nation venue
- InterMed drops Martin’s Point Medicare Advantage plans starting in 2027
- Senior-laden Bangor High baseball team seeking state Class A title
- UMaine men’s hockey loses top scorer to Penn State
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“If we want fewer children involved in the child welfare system, we have to look early and broadly: at what helps families stay stable and helps children thrive.”
Opinion: How to build the conditions that keep children safe
LIFE IN MAINE
This Maine mom is bringing her toddler on a turkey hunt.
Maine streams are changing right now. Here’s what trout are doing.
Aroostook County tech students are building a massive Acadian star sculpture.
Sanitation workers share more than trash in Penobscot Theatre Co.’s “The Garbologists.”