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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Laura McIntyre, who with her husband, David, is one of the organizers of the Great Bangor Marathon and Half, which will be held June 1.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Bangor closed the city’s largest homeless encampment. Now it needs to clean it up. Heavy equipment was seen cutting and clearing trees in the wooded area behind the Hope House Health and Living Center recently.
Illegal border crossings into Maine drop as deportation risk rises. While illegal border crossings appear to have slowed, undocumented immigrants already living in Maine now face higher risk of arrest.
The battle behind the Maine salmon sold at grocery stores. Maine is the only state where salmon can be farmed in ocean net pens, and it’s also the only state where wild Atlantic salmon survive.
Why homes on Maine’s largest lake are prized for privacy. The Moosehead Lake region has long been prized by Mainers and high-income outsiders as a private getaway spot.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Thousands celebrate college graduations across Maine this weekend
- Donald Trump and big promises shape Maine Republicans’ open race for governor
- Susan Collins says $400M luxury jet gift for Donald Trump is ‘rife with political espionage’
- Susan Collins secures $8M for UMaine to develop prototype bridge
- Maine State Library temporarily closed, among many hit by funding cuts
- Ex-Maine prosecutor released from prison after child porn convictions
- Former Bangor-area taekwondo instructor accused of sexually assaulting child
- Northern Light is closing its Bangor chronic pain center
- Orrington trash plant owner to pay town nearly $25K a month, documents show
- 2 injured in serious single-car crash on I-395 in Bangor
- UMaine assistant professor details the highlights of her ‘Jeopardy!’ run
- Aroostook power outage due to power feed loss from Canada
- Presque Isle will get its first new multifamily housing in decades
- Ellsworth group loses federally funded historic preservation grant
- Bar Harbor gets $510K EPA grant to clean up YMCA site
- Bucksport will replace aging memorial playground
- Finding trouble in the woods: ‘Blair Witch Project’ star at center of Maine road dispute
- Drivers injured after 2 trucks collide in Liberty
- 4-year-old fatally shot in Lewiston
- Man accused of slashing the base of another man’s head in a Maine city
- How the Great Bangor Marathon will keep runners on course
- Southern Maine Community College softball brings home national title
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“The impact of Medicaid goes far beyond the exam room. It sustains jobs and supports the broader health system.”
LIFE IN MAINE
Hello, warden? I have a raccoon in my living room rafters. “A homeowner reported their house had been burglarized, only to discover the real culprit was a giant raccoon that I spent the better part of an afternoon trying to snag from the home’s hand-hewn wood beams,” Outdoors contributor Chris Sargent recounts.
Hatchery upgrades will boost trout stocking in Maine lakes and ponds. The state is using more than $25 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding for the renovations, which will be finished by the end of this year.
