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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Bruce Sargent, owner of Taste of Maine Potato Chip Co., who is building a $65 million potato chip plant on the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Locals who fought the I-395 connector for years now dread its opening. The controversial project has been in planning since 2000, under construction since 2017 and will open this weekend.
Here’s what Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would mean for Maine and its hospitals. The bill, which may add more than $2 trillion to the federal deficit over a decade and leave millions more uninsured while extending tax cuts, is facing a skeptical public.
U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security agents raided a Bangor restaurant. Three people were arrested on immigration charges and were being held “pending removal,” according to DHS.
Maine’s most populated area is already falling behind on its housing goals. The lag is lowering the state’s chance of adding 84,300 units by 2030.
Three Bangor police officers were placed on leave after a shooting on Thursday. The officers shot at and wounded a person who allegedly threatened suicide at a Broadway home.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Not much can be done about racist signs just outside Belfast
- Janet Mills promotes ‘Welcome Canadians’ campaign during stop in Bar Harbor
- A first look at Aroostook County’s new $65M potato chip plant
- Massachusetts man arrested in Greenville after chase
- Janet Mills lets ban on ‘doxxing’ children in Maine become law
- Katahdin hiker died of hypothermia complications, medical examiner says
- 6 people seriously injured in Washington County crash
- Bangor starts planning how to spend $3.4M in opioid settlement funds
- Maine woman seriously injured while hiking Franconia Notch
- State closed longtime Bangor sandwich shop over rat infestation
- 3 Aroostook school districts cut more after budgets shot down
- Police erect memorial for dog killed in Aroostook standoff
- Watch Cooper Flagg’s 1st press conference as an NBA player
- Detour in Biddeford after burning trash dumped on street
- System outage at Central Maine Healthcare continues to vex patients
MAINE IN PICTURES
Richard Hatch stands on a berm that was put in as a barrier between his driveway and the slope down to the new connector between I-395 and Route 9 to try to decrease the road noise he heard. Hatch is one of nearly 60 residents of Brewer, Holden and Eddington who had their land purchased, reshaped or affected by the construction. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“If Republicans in Congress pass their reconciliation bill, rural Mainers might soon have to drive hours just to see a doctor, or call 911 and pray the ambulance makes it in time.”
Opinion: Rural Maine can’t afford hospital losses that Republican reconciliation bill would bring
LIFE IN MAINE
An easy hike leads to some of Acadia’s most famous landmarks.
Here’s why the Maine woods sometimes sound like a horror movie.
New Balance’s Cooper Flagg partnership is a “big deal” for the company’s Maine workers.
