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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 |
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“It was very deliberate and malicious. It’s really something that people in Camden are enraged about, and they just want to discourage this from ever happening again.”
— Camden Town Manager Audra Caler on learning that herbicide used illegally on private property had turned up at a town beach.
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Today’s Top Maine Stories |
A Maine probate judge washospitalizedhours after he was ordered to pay $43,000 in back child support. His place on the bench also could be in jeopardy. |
Ellsworth city councilors fired their police chief, who is also on leave from his job as the city manager. |
Attorneys general from 16 Republican-led states threatened to sue Maine over abortion and transgender care protections. |
A law giving Maine’s four tribes exclusive rights to sports betting took effect four months ago. Since then, one tribe has raked in 80 percent of the proceeds. |
Dick’s Sporting Goods is done with guns. |
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Photo of the Day |
| A photo shared by the town of Kennebunk shows flooding of low-lying coastal areas from a storm that hit Maine on Sunday, March 11, 2024, bringing rain, wind and high tides along the coast and snow in the mountains. | | Critter Video | March is Canada lynx mating season, and if you have any doubt, listen to these animals talk as they wander through Maine’s woods. Male lynx wander the woods looking for mates this time of year, and is likely what is happening here in this video by BDN contributor Allie Ladd. | | |
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More State News |
DraftKings and the Passamaquoddy Tribe dominate Maine’s sports betting market Portland nonprofit wants to take over struggling Bangor homeless shelter Orono, Kenduskeag libraries getting $4.6M for expansion projects Bernie Sanders to speak at University of New England commencement The state’s plan to build in Allagash protected zone raises opposition The public can soon weigh in about Versant Power’s proposed rate hike Maine’s coast had less flooding Sunday than in January storms Midcoast fire destroys a barn and 3 boats Survivors in stable condition after Rumford crash that killed 8-year-old Mother of 5-year-old whose body remains missing will file a planned wrongful death lawsuit Analysis: Lynden Breen leads UMaine hockey to likely 1st NCAA berth in a decade Weather beatdown leaves towering Maine landmark surrounded by crime scene tape Maine ballot initiative would set limits on individual contributions to super PACs |
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From Opinion |
| “The number of cases without legal representation has skyrocketed since October, when there were around 73 such cases. As of Feb. 27, there were 393 people and 500 cases without lawyers across the state, and around 100 of those people were held in jail, according to reporting by the Bangor Daily News.”
| Editorial: Maine’s crisis of legal representation remains unsolved |
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Life in Maine |
Ever wanted to live in a house with a turret? There are four for sale in Maine right now.
Eclipse celebration organizers hope to build a massive cairn in Houlton, and they want you to bring a stone.
Atlantic salmon are returning to Maine, and there are reasons to be hopeful, Outdoors contributor V. Paul Reynolds writes.
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