QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Julie Barros, a real estate agent with Lighthouse Real Estate Group, on the cooling housing market.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
The new Maine Legislature is finally changing how it operates. The Legislature will only hold floor sessions on Tuesdays rather than on multiple days for the first few weeks of next year.
Sharp price cuts are tilting Maine’s hot housing market toward buyers. Though price cuts usually happen around this time every year as the market chills with the weather, they are at the highest level nationwide that they have been in five years.
Belfast is divided after UMaine backed out of a deal to sell the Hutchinson Center to Calvary Chapel Belfast. The original offer to sell the center to the church prompted backlash, with some arguing that it should remain a public gathering and education space.
Ambulance services are in jeopardy for part of Penobscot County’s unorganized territories. Unorganized territories rely on surrounding towns, the county and state to provide essential services because they lack their own municipal governments.
A Maine photographer’s surfer portraits are getting new attention 25 years later. Eugene Cole’s quiet portraits capture a time when the sport was less mainstream and far fewer surfers were catching waves on Maine’s coast.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Maine adopts rules to make companies pay for packaging waste
- Maine gets $5.7M in federal funding to expand internet access
- Maine’s child hunger advocates prepare to defend federal nutrition programs
- Company that supplies electric buses to Maine school districts is in financial trouble
- Bangor may delay closing homeless camp until February
- Arrest made in killing of Bangor man
- Melissa Etheridge and the Indigo Girls set for Bangor waterfront next summer
- Aroostook service agency aims to dispel myths about homeless people
- Deer Isle-area superintendent resigns, says school district resisted accountability
- Downtown Ellsworth business moves out of state and puts building up for sale
- Police identify Camden woman killed when car hit her wheelchair
- Trial begins for man accused of killing 3-year-old girl in Edgecomb
- Brunswick Home and Garden Shop closing after 62 years in business
- 2 hospitalized after suspected gas leak at Farmington Hannaford shopping complex
- Man arrested in Fryeburg for illegally dealing guns and residing in US without documents
- L.L. Bean to lay off workers for 2nd time this year
- UMaine sports ticket sales revenue is up over last season
- Fordham men’s basketball upends cold-shooting UMaine
- UMaine men’s hockey tops Stonehill
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“On this International Human Rights Day please keep in mind the rights of the Wabanaki Nations in our homelands now called Maine.”
LIFE IN MAINE
Maine could be ending its controversial moose herd management strategy. The addition of an adaptive hunt in the North Maine Woods was an attempt to mitigate the tick population, but has had mixed reception from hunters and wildlife biologists.
Does technology blur the lines of ethical hunting? “The answers to your ethical questions may be rooted in why you hunt and how you view the animals you seek,” BDN Outdoors editor Julie Harris writes.
People are already ice fishing where it’s allowed. Early season freezing attracts a group of hardcore fishermen who venture out on even just an inch and a half of ice.
More Mainers are using dogs to guard their animals, but there’s a catch. Dogs do a combination of jobs no person, piece of equipment or other animal can, but keeping a dog is its own occupation. Another dog activity, canicross, is catching on in Maine.
