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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Eric Waddell, executive director of the Maine School Management Association, on the sharp increase this year in Maine voters shooting down their local school budgets.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Here’s how Maine’s congressional delegation reacted to a wave of USDA foreclosures across the state. Sen. Susan Collins and Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden are pushing the federal government for answers after the Bangor Daily News and ProPublica revealed a loan program is pushing poor Mainers into insurmountable debt.
Why are so many Maine school districts rejecting their budgets? More than three weeks into the start of the fiscal year for Maine’s nearly 200 school districts, at least 15 voted against new budgets in June referendums.
A Maine train engineer is suing Canadian Pacific Railway after he was nearly impaled during a derailment. Louis Meyers of Dover-Foxcroft alleges the company failed to plan for severe weather and monitor track conditions.
A Bangor syringe exchange is moving. Needlepoint Sanctuary’s new Ohio Street location is farther from downtown, but it can be reached by bus.
The $400,000 piece of land comes with a rare view of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge. The undeveloped 0.98-acre plot is slightly more expensive than the cost of an average home in Waldo County.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Temperatures climb ahead of thunderstorms on Friday
- Susan Collins will oppose making Trump’s former lawyer a federal judge
- High demand fueled strong June for Maine home sales
- Woman accused of abusing child at Brewer day care
- Bangor pedestrian path construction set to finish this fall
- Massachusetts fugitive arrested in Bangor
- There will be no parking on this downtown Bangor street Thursday and Friday
- Police seize carfentanil, fentanyl and meth in Passadumkeag raid
- A new state law will boost Aroostook County potato processors
- An Aroostook historical society is reviving a century-old train station
- Maine OKs plans for state’s largest scallop farm
- A Belfast meat store is closing
- Cianbro is behind $1B energy storage project planned for western Maine
- Maine’s only medical school is concerned about new federal student loan cap
- Gorham Little League disqualified from state tournament after eligibility protest
- UMaine football team ‘humble and hungry’ as it works to keep improving
- Mackenzie Holmes and Cooper Flagg make Maine history in WNBA and NBA at same time
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“There is absolutely no excuse for ignoring this problem, which has been reported to have started in Maine more than five years ago.”
Opinion: Chinese marijuana grows and property purchases in Maine raise big concerns
LIFE IN MAINE
The Bangor State Fair kicks off today, and runs through Sunday, with additional dates next week.
Country music star Shania Twain put on an impressive concert in Bangor Tuesday night, after donating $25,000 to the Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine.
Watch this woodcock do an adorable woodland wobble to stir up worms.
Would you want to hear coyotes like this in your backyard?
Use this native Maine plant as a natural poison ivy remedy.
