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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Dean Martin, executive director of Friends of Fort Knox, the organization that oversees the 157-year-old fort of the same name. The granite edifice overlooking the Penobscot River never saw military action but stands as a piece of local history with a hefty price tag for upkeep.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Avoid scandal and play hardball politics in the BDN’s town meeting game. The text-based game was created in part by training Claude AI on real Maine town meeting warrants.
A Bangor restaurant was ordered to pay a former employee $135,000 in unpaid wages. Salt North Tap Room owner Dane Morgan failed to appear or defend himself against the lawsuit.
Bangor’s school department said no other schools are at risk of closing over asbestos. The reassurance comes after the material was found in the ceiling of the Fairmount School.
This historic coastal Maine fort is falling apart. Fort Knox is one of the best-preserved examples of coastal defense structures from the mid-19th century, according to historians.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Maine Legislature fails to reverse Janet Mills’ veto of data center ban
- Democrats shut down Maine Legislature to kill child welfare bill opposed by Janet Mills
- Graham Platner impresses Jon Stewart in podcast appearance
- A Democratic duel and rich Republicans define Maine’s gubernatorial money race
- Bangor’s Urban Pizza closes again
- Downtown Bangor office building sells for $13M
- Oregon man accused of assaulting woman in downtown Bangor
- 17-year-old server helps save customer’s life at Brewer restaurant
- A black bear is wandering around Indian Island
- State regulators reopen northern Maine power line bids
- Ellsworth farmers market will open Saturday at new waterfront site
- Bar Harbor YMCA buys house so its employees can live on MDI
- Duo accused of trafficking drugs around Swanville
- Midcoast town bans dogs from park for 1 year
- Colby College to rebuild fire-destroyed Port Clyde wharf this summer
- 28-year-old accused of smashing angel statues at central Maine cemetery
- Man found dead in Maine lake
- Developer seeks review for new Amazon warehouse in Waterville
- 8 Mainers arrested while trying to deliver care packages to ICE detainees in Massachusetts
- Hermon softball team looking to defend B North title with transformed roster
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Many of the very same tactics were employed by a badly weakened Iran four decades ago at the end of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history.”
Opinion: Trump administration missed wargaming lessons on Iran
LIFE IN MAINE
The UMaine athletics program received a $10 million gift from a longtime donor.
Former UMaine goalie Jeremy Swayman is one of three finalists for the Vezina Trophy.
