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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Joshua Nemzoff, a Pennsylvania-based health care CEO and hospital mergers and acquisitions expert who reviewed Northern Light Health’s financial audit from 2024.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Here’s what could be next for a reeling Northern Light Health. The Brewer-based health system lost $156 million last year, closed a hospital and has seen its credit rating take significant hits. But not all options are on the table.
Drivers owe Bangor more than $10,000 in overdue parking tickets. Anyone with more than three unpaid tickets is at risk for towing — and soon, the Barnacle.
Fewer Canadians are coming to Maine this summer on the ferry to Bar Harbor. The CAT seasonal service across the Gulf of Maine has carried almost 20 percent fewer travelers than at this time last year.
A Hancock County couple have closed their farm while they fight an assault charge. Jacob Langley of Northern Bay Organic is accused of throwing cash and then his wallet at an Acadia National Park employee who could only accept cards, and pounding on the door of her booth.
Albion residents are grieving after a 3-year-old was killed in a hit-and-run. A mother and her twin boys were allegedly hit by a drunken driver who made his first court appearance Monday.
Jonathan Bush took the next step in a potential run for Maine governor. A run would put one of America’s most storied political families, with ties to Maine, back in the picture for a prominent office.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- 1st Circuit rules Maine ban on foreign election spending likely unconstitutional
- Maine winds down housing programs for asylum-seekers
- UMaine System may soon offer shorter bachelor’s degree programs
- Students build a new addition to a historic Aroostook nature trail
- Major Fort Kent roads will be reduced to 1 lane for summer repairs
- Aroostook County is finally getting a drug treatment court
- Poet and Maine native Andrea Gibson, candid explorer of life, death and politics, dies at 49
- Deer Isle teen who drowned in pond was up-and-coming auto mechanic
- A shady land deal in Belfast as a conservation easement goes missing
- Body recovered from Maine river identified as missing fisherman
- Connecticut man allegedly came to Maine to sexually abuse teen
- Groups warn rescinding roadless rule risks Maine national forest
- Missing Westbrook teen has been found
- Cooper Flagg’s Summer League is over but his NBA arrival is just beginning
- UMaine pitcher taken by Detroit Tigers in 4th round of MLB draft
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“The administration’s rescissions package threatens work that reflects American values on a global scale.”
Opinion: Susan Collins should continue to stand against cuts that cost lives
LIFE IN MAINE
What are the ethics of eating native brook trout?
The midcoast is Maine’s new tick “epicenter.”
The queens and princesses Maine fairs and festivals used to crown each year. We’ve gone back through our archive to find photos and articles to find some of the most amusing and, in some cases, old-fashioned examples of Maine pageant winners.
