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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Bangor Fire Chief Geoffrey Low recalling the moment a man leaped from the roof of a house to a bucket lift, grabbed a fire ax from it, and leaped back to the roof during a standoff with police Wednesday.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
The owner of a troubled Orrington trash plant met its first mortgage payment deadline. Eagle Point Energy Center is trying to restart the facility, burning trash from 42 municipalities to generate electricity.
Here’s what’s missing from how Susan Collins explains her votes on controversial bills. The Republican senator’s explanation of her advancement votes has drawn attention and offers a glimpse into how she’s navigating her role as prepares for the 2026 election.
Cuts to punish “bias” in public broadcasting would hurt Maine’s emergency alert system. A bill in front of Congress would wipe out two years of federal funding for the public media, which is often the initial distributor of emergency alerts.
Mainers will soon have to pay more for heat pumps and solar. As part of the Republican Party’s sweeping policy bill signed into law this month, federal tax credits for residential clean energy improvements will end on Dec. 31.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Initial fundraising totals reveal frontrunners in Maine’s 2026 race for governor
- Maine GOP allegations of 2024 voter fraud aren’t true, Shenna Bellows says
- Mainers could lose 20M meals under Trump’s food assistance cuts
- Maine joins lawsuit against Trump administration over billions in frozen education funding
- The push to defund Planned Parenthood hit other clinics in Maine. Now their group is suing
- This Surry farmhouse for sale comes with a popular ice cream shop
- Maine had 90,000 fewer international visitors this June than a year ago
- Maine man charged after causing 7-hour standoff while on Bangor roof
- Car crash knocked out power to 1,400 in Bangor
- New data show Caribou, Bangor among fastest-warming locations in nation
- Former Caribou man gets 8 years for possessing child sexual abuse images
- Maine rangers rescue 2 paddlers on Allagash Falls
- Driver hit 2 moose in Big Moose Township
- Cooper Flagg to split training time between Dallas and Maine this summer
- Cooper Flagg named best men’s college athlete at ESPY Awards
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“We simply do not have enough lawyers available to handle the nearly 40,000 criminal cases filed across the state each year.”
Opinion: Maine’s criminal justice system has reached the breaking point
LIFE IN MAINE
Do you know what Maine’s heritage fish waters are?
There’s a reason that Fort Knox was built in Prospect, despite the fact that it’s a small town without any other military installations for many miles around.
The Lumineers, accompanied by Hippo Campus, brought their show back to the Bangor Waterfront after playing in Maine in 2023.
