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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Jeff Tilton, who runs Maine’s only dedicated livestock auction house. Tilton is a third-generation owner of the Corinth business, and he expects it will end with him.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Bangor has a plan to soften the blow of tariffs on local businesses. The city oversees one of four Foreign Trade Zones in Maine — secure, designated areas that are considered outside of U.S. customs territory.
An acclaimed University of Maine engineering center laid off nine people, citing President Donald Trump’s research cuts. Universities nationwide are facing “enormous financial pressures” caused by unexpected funding pauses and cuts, leaders of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center said.
Maine border patrol agents made more arrests in April than in any month in 24 years. The federal agency said the new high-water mark is not the result of more people illegally crossing the border but from expanded enforcement.
A vanishing way of life continues at one of Maine’s last livestock auctions. Maine had 1,217 dairy farms in 1974 and now has around 140 often larger operations milking hundreds of cows instead of a few dozen.
Indigenous-led food production is returning to part of the midcoast. The project follows a growing effort to restore land across what’s now Maine to the groups that first inhabited it.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Here’s Jordon Hudson’s advice to Miss Maine contestant Isabelle St. Cyr
- Owner of most of Maine’s newspapers sells off 21 local papers in Colorado
- Maine judge will move forward to release defendants despite appeal
- Orono man charged with drug trafficking after Bangor traffic stop
- 2 horses die after Eddington crash
- Dan Cashman tells Howard Stern how he got David Letterman on The Nite Show
- A new program aims to jump start kids tennis in Aroostook
- 2 men safe after boat capsizes on Maine lake
- Woman accused of burning down her Maine home
- Fisherman found dead in Maine lake
- Maine jail has seen a big jump in Border Patrol arrests
- State champion Caribou girls basketball coach steps down
- Cooper Flagg is still just a kid from Maine. Now he’s settling into his new reality.
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Mega-landfills don’t just store trash and waste; they spread it, creating potential harms to human health, our homes, and the lives of future generations.”
Opinion: We can’t let the largest landfill in Maine grow again
LIFE IN MAINE
This whimsical, turreted Maine island home was built for a pastor. The home, which is being sold for $440,000, is known as “The Abbey.”
A Maine fishing club is looking for the Pete Rose bat it raffled off in 1985. It wasn’t just any bat. It was a bat that Rose and his teammates signed on the night he broke Ty Cobb’s all-time MLB hits record.
There’s an alternative to Atlantic salmon fishing. “Under current regional salmon fishing circumstances, black salmon fishing may have to fit the bill for several more years, but be assured that you won’t be disappointed,” Outdoors contributor Bill Graves writes.
