Monday, Aug. 12, 2024

Quote of the Day

“You can go broke buying treats for your chickens.”

— Dixmont homesteader Lisa Steele on raising chickens.

Today’s Top Maine Stories

Mayor’s secretly recorded criticism of an LGBTQ+ group roiled a liberal Maine city. “I’m not going say this publicly, but the pride alliance kind of went from advocacy to militancy,” he said in the recording.

Versant Power has received more than 50 subpoenas related to illegal marijuana grow houses. The utility company wants a rule change allowing it to report high energy usage to police in an effort to identify illegal marijuana grow houses.

What Maine’s seabirds are teaching us about mercury. One species studied had higher mercury levels than some other birds, partly because of the type of fish they eat.

Mainers will soon be able to file federal tax returns online for free. The IRS's Direct File will become a permanent option for states to join starting in the 2025 tax season.

Bangor is running weeks behind on painting its roads. As of Friday, just 75 percent road striping is finished, while only 45 percent of stenciling has been completed. That doesn’t even account for touch-ups.

Maine in Pictures

More News from Around the State

• BDN sportswriter Larry Mahoney to be inducted into press hall of fame

• Longtime Bangor florist honors expired gift certificate 27 years later

• Waitlist for Bangor-area Meals on Wheels grows amid funding deficit

• 5 places to eat that show off Aroostook County’s scenery

• Grants will allow St. John Valley store to sell snowmobile and ATV fuel

• Wardens rescue missing Fort Kent man from washed out road

• 1 injured and 2 Sinclair homes destroyed after explosion

• Researchers don’t know how shark died before washing ashore in Blue Hill

• Route 1 reopens after windmill blade strikes Stockton Springs railroad bridge

• Midcoast store loses most of its business Friday after Route 1 closure

• Man arrested after car-pedestrian hit and run crash

• Woman sues monster truck tour after Maine crash injured her and son

• Clinton woman found safe

• Lawsuit against MSAD 61 after teen’s hiking trip death dismissed

• Man arrested in Portland shooting that left woman dead and 3 others wounded

• 80-year-old Old Orchard Beach man found safe

• Maine Basketball Hall of Fame inducts Class of 2024 in Bangor

• Youngsters excited to meet Cooper Flagg at ProCamp in Orono

• UMaine women’s soccer ‘keeper to play in Under-20 World Cup

From the Opinion Pages

Life in Maine

We all know a good Maine accent when we hear it. There’s a long history of actors butchering our distinctive accent.

Mainers are spending thousands of dollars on luxury chicken coops. While many Maine homesteaders still take a no-frills approach, larger and more decorative coops with automated features are on the rise.

Here is what you said in the state's moose survey. There were more than 280 responses to the management survey and more than 150 in the hunting section.

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