Thursday, June 6, 2024

Quote of the Day


“Every time we get a potential sighting, our hopes are raised and we, every single time, think, ‘This could be it. This could be the time we find him.’”


— Tammy Lacher Scully on the search for her missing son Graham Lacher, who has been missing since he fled from Bangor’s Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center on June 6, 2022.


Today’s Top Maine Stories

The family of a man who went missing in Bangor two years ago hasn’t stopped searching for him. Tammy Lacher Scully has spent thousands of dollars and traveled hundreds of miles throughout New England and Canada spreading word of her son Graham Lacher’s disappearance.

Donald Trump figures heavily in the closing arguments in Maine’s 2nd District GOP primary. Republican voters on Tuesday will pick either Mike Soboleski or Austin Theriault to face Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in November.

A 102-year-old Maine veteran who just missed D-Day is still telling war stories 80 years later. Known affectionately as the Maine Military Museum's “living artifact,” James Mardin holds court there almost every Saturday afternoon.

A New York investor has bought a Brooksville marina at the center of years of legal disputes with the town. The sale ends a conflict dating to August 2020, when a yacht tied up at the marina without permission was dragged into another boat.

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Wabanaki writer and Levant resident Morgan Talty’s new book, “Fire Exit,” is a worthy follow up to his nationally acclaimed debut “Night of the Living Rez,” the BDN’s Emily Burnham writes.

Golfers will tee off in the 10th annual Downeast Metro tourney this weekend. Showers are in the forecast, so the pros are hoping the weather won’t be a factor.

True North Theatre’s production of the dark fairy tale “Once Upon a Bride There Was a Forest” can’t make up its mind what it wants to be, Judy Harrison writes.

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