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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Nicole DiGeronimo, director of homeownership and financial counseling for Avesta Housing. The nonprofit just put its first two houses on the market as part of a program to make home ownership available to people who have been priced out of Maine’s hot housing market.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Bangor needs 700 affordable housing units. We asked three developers how they would build them. They gave us their biggest ideas and explained what stood in the way. Now we want to know: How would you do it?
A housing development for homeless people at a former Bangor inn still has no opening date. Though it is now seven months overdue, the project recently obtained a certificate of occupancy, which had been one of the biggest hurdles it faced.
Bar Harbor voted not to reappoint an appeals board member who opposed cruise ships. Cara Ryan’s public opposition to the cruise industry was the subject of a private hearing that was accidentally aired online.
The man accused of a double fatal Albion hit-and-run tried to blame his girlfriend, according to court documents. The second death, a 2-year-old boy, was confirmed Monday.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Wildfire smoke will make northern Maine air unsafe for some
- Underwater photo of great white shark in Maine waters believed to be the 1st
- Maine sees small drop in homelessness over past year
- Bangor City Hall will reopen soon after extensive renovations
- A new kind of EV charging station could be coming to Brewer
- The 1st houses in a new program to help Mainers afford ownership are for sale
- Family shares experience of camping on pond’s island when Maine paddleboarder was slain
- A chef from the ‘other Belfast’ is opening a restaurant in the midcoast city
- Thomaston OKs 1st urban alpaca farm after family petitions for zoning change
- New Maine national monument honoring Frances Perkins is now open
- Escaped emu corralled by Brunswick police
- Man killed in Fairfield motorcycle crash
- LL Bean CEO and president will leave the company next year
- UMaine not providing direct NIL payments to athletes ‘at this point in time’
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“The existing county jail in Bangor has legitimate problems, but we do not believe spending millions in taxpayer dollars on a brand new, much larger, jail is the solution.”
Opinion: A new diversion program is a better solution than a bigger jail in Penobscot County
LIFE IN MAINE
Two filmmakers have captured what it took to host thousands of people to watch the total solar eclipse in a northern Maine town of 6,000 people.
Twenty-five awesome lesser-known Maine hikes. “I’ve discovered a number of jackpot hiking spots that don’t seem to get a lot of foot traffic,” Outdoors contributor Aislinn Sarnacki writes.
Eight must-try Maine hikes if you love waterfalls. You don’t always have to scale a mountain to find the best scenery in Maine — there are plenty of waterfalls that are easy to hike to.
