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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Bill Ginn, former chief conservation officer at The Nature Conservancy, who in 1989 started what is now the heavily contaminated Hawk Ridge Compost Facility.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Bangor spent nearly $120,000 to clean up its largest homeless encampment. The land, which spans about 7 acres between Cleveland Street and Texas Avenue, was home to nearly 100 people.
A celebrated conservationist’s unwitting role in Maine’s PFAS crisis. Bill Ginn is mad about what happened at the Hawk Ridge Compost Facility that he started 35 years ago as a recycling center.
We asked Maine mayors how they would handle a meeting with President Donald Trump. After Trump’s meeting with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, we asked four Maine mayors what they’d discuss with him.
Here are three homes in Ellsworth that sold in November. All are single-family houses with an average selling price of slightly more than $283,000, which is less than the price of an average Ellsworth home.
Help us raise funds for emergency heating assistance on Giving Tuesday. Join the Bangor Daily News, Pulse Marketing Agency, Maine Community Action Partnership and local banks to help Mainers heat their homes.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Winter storm could bring 5-10 inches of snow to eastern and central Maine
- You can already bet on Maine’s 2026 elections
- Army veteran from East Machias enters race for Jared Golden’s seat
- Invasive emerald ash borer spreading rapidly across Maine
- Candy shop to open in downtown Bangor
- Eddington firefighters stop vehicle fire before it reaches house
- Federal shutdown delays Mi’kmaq fish hatchery expansion
- Norway man accused of setting 1 of 3 fires in the Maine town
- Man injured in Maine home explosion has been identified
- Pair of Thanksgiving earthquakes shake Maine town
- Small Maine ski areas beat the odds as they struggle for survival
- Tractor-trailer overturns on Maine interstate
- Driver arrested after ramming cruiser, leading troopers on 2-state chase
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“We cannot count on anyone in Washington to come and rescue us; we have to do it ourselves.”
Opinion: I’m running for Congress because Mainers deserve a better future
LIFE IN MAINE
Woodpeckers in Maine are acting weird. “This year’s woodpeckers, and the one in my yard in 2012, were all immature. … But that’s not the weirdest thing,” Outdoors contributor Bob Duchesne writes.
This is one solution for Mount Desert Island’s deer problem. “If the Southwest Harbor leaders really want to begin addressing the deer issue, step one would be a phased in hunting season,” Outdoors contributor V. Paul Reynolds writes.
Here are three Maine hunting laws I hope change in the new year. Outdoors contributor Al Raychard writes that most of the items on his holiday wish list involve “issues my fellow hunters, nonhunters and others across the state can’t agree on.
