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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Independent U.S. Sen. Angus King of Maine on his decision to support a Republican bill that would have prevented a federal government shutdown. The bill failed on opposition from Democrats, paving the way for the shutdown that started Wednesday.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
President Donald Trump is seizing on the shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal government and punish his detractors. That’s what many observers, including officials here in Maine, feared would happen if Congress failed to do its job. The shutdown’s effects here are still taking shape, but for now, Acadia National Park has remained accessible to visitors.
Northern Light and Anthem extended their contract for 30 days. The short-term agreement comes less than a day after their contract expired, briefly throwing roughly 30,000 Northern Light patients out of Anthem’s coverage network.
Doctors and nurses are punched, choked, even shot. States like Maine want to stop that. The number of health care providers who reported harassment at work from patients, patients’ families and colleagues more than doubled between 2018 and 2022.
This candidate wants to restore calm to a Bangor City Council in turmoil. “If you’ve gone to a council meeting recently, you’ve seen there have been some issues,” Susan Faloon said.
An upcoming one-day-only sale will feature 14 coastal Down East properties. The properties will form a new community in Jonesport called Seaberry Landing that will be organized like a subdivision.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Donald Trump makes his pick for Maine’s top prosecutor
- Maine Family Planning is closing its primary care practice
- Police investigating allegation that Maine woman received election ballots in the mail
- Dogs barred from Bangor’s Paws on Parade because of the parvovirus
- Court orders Glenburn woman to pay back $1M in stolen rent payments
- Loring haunted house returns later this month
- Parvovirus outbreak shutters Aroostook dog parks
- 10 years ago, a maritime disaster changed seafaring in Maine
- Southwest Harbor gives conditional approval to subdivision near a landfill
- Man who allegedly strangled 5-year-old arrested in Maine
- Maine hunters saw lower success rates in September bull moose season
- John Bapst hockey looking for new coach after going to state title game last year
- One of Maine’s best post players is staying to play college basketball
- Bucksport football team’s helmets are tribute to lost players and coaches
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“This would restore unfettered access for Atlantic salmon and other seagoing fish from the Gulf of Maine to their historic spawning grounds upstream on the Sandy River for the first time since the Kennebec River was permanently dammed more than a century ago.”
Editorial: Historic conservation project offers new era for Kennebec River
LIFE IN MAINE
Aroostook kids will perform a musical version of Stephen King’s “Carrie” on Halloween.
Maine may see an influx of winter birds triggered by food shortages in Québec.
If you hear “drumming” in the woods, don’t be scared.
