QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Mathew Eddy, executive director of the Midcoast Council of Governments, on the impact of unaffordable rental prices on Maine’s midcoast.
TODAY’S TOP MAINE STORIES
Maine faces a key hurdle in effort to speed up criminal trials. Maine is one of nine states with no clear timelines for criminal cases, despite the state and U.S. constitutions including the right to a speedy trial.
Affordable housing is becoming harder to find on Maine’s midcoast. Scarce housing opportunities have pushed workers to either commute long distances or leave the region altogether.
Warming waters in Casco Bay are driving herring farther from shore. Climate change, human activity, ocean acidification and harmful algal blooms are causing different behaviors in species that could hinder their ability to reproduce and thrive.
Maine scientists are testing tree pulp and seaweed as PFAS alternatives. They are similar in function to, but safer than, certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
MAINE IN PICTURES
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- US attorney vows ‘strong and sustained’ crackdown on illegal Maine marijuana grows
- First-generation homebuyers are turning to this Maine program to bridge the wealth gap
- Lone man protests for Palestine before graduating at UMaine
- Police recover body from Penobscot River in Greenbush
- Police charge man after his vehicle crashes into building
- Orrington man accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
- New Mexican restaurant opens in Dover-Foxcroft
- New Houlton chief brings southern border patrol experience to Maine
- Volunteers are keeping an Aroostook wildlife refuge going amid budget cuts
- Aroostook River race has strong turnout despite low water
- UMFK awards degrees to 207 students during commencement
- UMPI graduates largest class ever amid space-themed ceremony
- Road to Cadillac Mountain closed for repaving
- Belfast health center will serve more patients in bigger new location
- Hundreds celebrate reopening of Lewiston bowling alley after mass shooting
- Mainer arrested after police find 7 pounds of fentanyl in his apartment
- Connecticut man dies when motorcycle crashes on turnpike
- Maine AG clears York deputy who shot domestic violence suspect
- Several people injured at May Day parade in Kennebunk
- UMBC sweep puts UMaine baseball in America East cellar
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Republicans need to come back to the concerns of real Americans. What matters is not the move to vacate, in congressional parlance. What matters is the price of the weekly grocery bill.”
Opinion: Marjorie Taylor Greene is a distraction that is hurting Republicans
LIFE IN MAINE
Julia Gagnon didn’t make it into the top five on “American Idol” on Sunday night. Gagnon, who sang “Roam” by the B-52s and “Set Fire to the Rain” by Adele, was one of two contestants cut.
Ready for the summer’s outdoor concerts? There’s something for everyone, every week from Memorial Day through mid-September. Here’s your ultimate guide and breakdowns of who’s taking the stage on the Bangor waterfront and Thompson’s Point in Portland.
You will appreciate the power and grace this eagle demonstrates. New England-based photographer Corey Cain captured this footage of an eagle he calls “Sammy” in December of 2023.
