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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Deborah Bronk, president, CEO and senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay. The research institution recently lost $1 million in federal funding but is expanding in hopes of attracting funding from the private sector.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
A University of Maine professor was denied a Fulbright scholarship as the program’s board resigned over Donald Trump’s interference. Robert Glover believes his funding was denied because of “keywords” in his application that are being picked out by the Trump administration.
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is expanding at a precarious time for research institutions. After losing $1 million in federal aid, the lab hopes to attract more private sector money to be less reliant on public funding.
The Maine Senate defeated a proposal to ban transgender girls from female sports. Sen. Rick Bennett of Oxford was the lone Republican to vote with Democrats to oppose the measure.
Van Buren tore down its former “Yacht Club.” There were no actual yachts, but the building was a fixture in the Aroostook County town for more than a century and a popular social spot.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Maine Senate defeats effort to pull state out of national popular vote compact
- The taxes and spending in Maine Democrats’ addition to the state budget
- New federal data show Maine’s foster care population grew at the fastest rate in the nation
- Downtown Bangor vintage clothing store to close this month
- Old Town settles for 10 percent tax hike in final budget
- UMaine co-develops database on college hazing deaths
- Earthquake shakes Piscataquis County town
- Victim identified in fatal Caribou fire
- Fire destroys home in Easton
- Castine decides to continue renting lighthouse cottage to teacher
- A man allegedly broke into a midcoast Maine home and assaulted 2 people inside
- Maine woman arrested following police standoff
- Maine motorcyclist dies after colliding with dump truck
- Man dies after canoe capsizes on western Maine pond
- Motorcyclist killed in Maine hit-and-run
- Maine man gets up to 16 years in prison for Massachusetts killing
- Woman dies after Maine house fire
- Man believed dead after Maine house fire
- Tuesday will be a massive day for playoff baseball in the Bangor area
- Powerhouse matchups lined up for North region softball championships
- UMaine hockey adds NHL draft pick from Canada with ‘blazing one-timer’
- Red Sox won’t be as lucky as Mavericks after shocking Rafael Devers trade
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Reduced funding will have a direct impact on workers’ wages and the basic care people receive.”
LIFE IN MAINE
Here are seven ways you stay cool at home this summer without air conditioning.
The tiny town of Strong, Maine, used to be the “toothpick capital of the world.”
