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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Barriers give time. They give time for someone to think, time for someone to change their mind.”
— Greg Marley, a former director of the Maine chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness who advocated for suicide prevention measures on the Penobscot Narrows Bridge. A year after fences were installed on the bridge, suicide rates have dropped significantly.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
A televised Republican gubernatorial candidates’ debate Thursday was marked by a new alliance and the absence of polling frontrunner Bobby Charles.
New ads from Susan Collins and Graham Platner couldn’t be more different. Plenty more political ads are coming with $138 million in advertising time already booked.
Suicide calls have nearly ceased at the Penobscot Narrows Bridge in year since fencing was installed. It took 19 years, several legislative proposals and about a dozen deaths to get the curved chain-link fencing added to the sides of the bridge.
An MDI road that was damaged in 2024 storms still hasn’t been fixed. Seawall Road has been the subject of a yearlong dispute among the state, Southwest Harbor and Acadia National Park.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- A Maine Republican is joining his rival’s campaign while staying in the race
- Penobscot Democrats plan vote to condemn national endorsement in Maine’s 2nd District race
- Janet Mills proclaims Friday ‘George Hale Day’
- 2nd credit rating agency upgrades Northern Light to ‘stable’
- A man drove from Bangor to NJ where he was shot by police
- 2 men charged with kidnapping after allegedly locking Bangor woman in her bathroom
- Invasive beetle found in Bangor for 1st time
- Aroostook woman accused of voting twice in 2024 denies charges
- New school is a ‘golden opportunity’ for Aroostook districts, consultant says
- Earthquake shook a small Down East town
- Midcoast Villager newspaper cuts staff in bid for financial stability
- Decision on whether to try teen accused in midcoast killing as adult is months away
- Maine’s high court hears arguments over inheritance in Belfast lobster pound case
- Spat between volunteers and staff at midcoast theater prompts call to police
- Red’s Eats opens for season in Wiscasset
- Maine cannabis business burglarized twice in less in a week
- Maine man accused of attacking woman with bat when she confronted him about allegedly sexually abusing her daughter
- Woman seriously injured after school bus crash in Westbrook
- ICE to release 19-year-old Mainer detained in Texas since November
- Owner hopes to save iconic Maine diner from foreclosure
- Albany ousts UMaine from America East softball tourney behind Kennebunk native’s 2-hitter
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“We look forward to working with leaders who recognize that Wabanaki sovereignty and environmental health are two sides of the same coin.”
LIFE IN MAINE
Winterport Open Stage returned after a three-year hiatus with a comedy, “The Dining Room.”
A kid’s first fish nearly snapped his Bluey rod.
This is the “killer” trout flysome anglers thought should be banned.