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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“As long as we like ourselves, it doesn’t matter what others think, and that can be difficult to accept when we are all just trying to fit in … But now, it is finally time for us to grow.”

— Autumn Nichols, president of Bangor High School’s class of 2026.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

Here’s what you need to know about Tuesday’s primary elections. Ranked-choice voting could shape the most consequential races for U.S. Senate, 2nd District and governor.

Every Greater Bangor municipal budget is expected to grow. The proposed budgets show that towns are investing in largely the same services, but their costs have gone up.

You can buy these five waterfront Maine camps for under $300,000. While affordable rustic camps have become a rarity in Maine, these five with waterfront access are all on the market.

A far-off plan to close schools puts a Maine town on the verge of leaving its district. Harrison residents will decide whether their town should file a petition to withdraw from South Paris-based School Administrative District 17.

A “cocoon of love” helped this family heal in the year since father-daughter hikers died on Katahdin. A year after a father and daughter died while hiking Katahdin, their family returned to thank the rangers who found the pair after an intensive search.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE

MAINE IN PICTURES

Cheers filled the Cross Insurance Center as 265 Bangor High School seniors received their diplomas Saturday afternoon. Here, new graduate Matt O’Connell raises his fist in celebration. Credit: / BDN Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN

FROM THE OPINION PAGES

A sign marks the entrance to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument just before the start of the Katahdin Loop Road, a scenic drive in the monument. Credit: Courtesy of Aislinn Sarnacki

“If politicians in Washington can sweep aside a completed planning process in Utah, what should Mainers conclude about the value of their participation?”

Opinion: Susan Collins should reject a dangerous threat to public lands

LIFE IN MAINE

This wild stretch of Maine’s coast almost became a subdivision. The Cutler Coast Public Lands unit encompasses more than 12,000 acres and five miles of beautiful coastline.

Here is why so many birds cheat on their mates. “Species deal with this unfaithful canoodling in various ways. One way is to just relax and accept it,” Outdoors contributor Bob Duchesne writes.

Mighty hummingbirds mark a miraculous change of seasons in Down East Maine. “With all the uncertainty in life, nature is a certainty that does not disappoint if one takes the time to see it,” contributor RJ Heller writes.