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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Scott Pardy, president of Fresh Start Sober Living of Maine, speaking about the city’s public toilets during a City Council public comment period last month.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Maine’s housing market is defying a nationwide trend. The national housing market is flipping for the first time in more than a decade to favor buyers — but not in Maine.
Used needles and no toilet paper: Bangor residents complain about public toilet conditions. Locals say the restrooms aren’t monitored closely, needles have been found in and around them and police have responded to overdoses inside.
Orono church is raising money to repair its iconic steeple. The steeple of the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono needs repairs and the church has asked the town to donate $5,000.
The insider’s tricks for beating MDI’s worsening summer traffic. Here are some ways to avoid the worst of MDI’s summer traffic that may also ease the stress and possible expense of finding a place to park.
This Mainer’s famous for connecting with horses. But don’t call him a whisperer. Horsemanship educator Chris Lombard has worked with more than 2,500 horses across Maine and beyond in his 22-year solo career.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- You can watch Stephen King’s ‘Christine’ in a Bangor cemetery
- Bail set for man who held standoff from atop Bangor roof
- 2 rescued after boat capsizes on Hermon Pond
- Orono donates $15K in opioid settlement funds to Lincoln recovery facility
- How the new Katahdin Woods and Waters welcome center honors Native Americans
- Police detail search that led to Dover-Foxcroft shelter-in-place order
- Woman reported missing in Mars Hill
- How MDI summer traffic became a nightmare
- Teen charged with murder in Maine paddleboarder’s death identified
- Mainers in kayaks protest Chief Justice John Roberts near his island home
- Boaters rescue man and dog from burning boat near Harpswell
- Man claimed he was ‘just joking’ when he allegedly tried to abduct a Maine child
- Mainer dies after crashing into retaining wall
- Maine Nordiques will not return to Lewiston Colisée because of debts
- A record number of piping plovers are nesting on Maine beaches
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“I am sadly struck by the sad, but unwavering observation of how a nation, once proud and increasingly optimistic, has slipped into a quagmire previously relegated for disappearing civilizations referenced to in high school history texts.”
LIFE IN MAINE
A model for giving away surplus homegrown veggies is spreading in Maine. The Houlton Give and Take farmstand, located on the Main Street side of the Cary Library, opened Friday morning.
Andrea Gibson was poetry in motion on the basketball court. The spoken-word poet and Maine native exuded a mastery of timing and cadence — not only as a performance artist, but also on the basketball court.
A rural stretch of Maine is going high-tech to expand access to arts classes. Art centers in Fort Kent and Van Buren will bring more arts opportunities to residents by livestreaming classes to each other.
How I avoid bears at my backyard bird feeders. “I ran to the door and turned on the porch light. A large sow and two sizeable cubs looked up at me with alarm.”
