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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Barbara, 78, who has been waiting three years for a Housing Choice Voucher that would cut her $718 rent by more than a third, helping to stretch her $1,200 Social Security check to cover more expenses.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Would Graham Platner make a good senator? His neighbors have ideas. Platner’s record in Sullivan — as Planning Board chair and harbormaster — offers a glimpse of his approach to the U.S. Senate race.
The U.S. Senate has advanced a set of bills that could end the weeks-old government shutdown. Maine’s Angus King was among the group of senators who came together to broker the deal, which is angering some Democrats because it doesn’t extend expiring health insurance subsidies.
In Bangor, 1,400 people are waiting for housing vouchers as rents soar. The average wait times for those BangorHousing prioritizes to receive a voucher can stretch two to four years.
Maine farmers plagued by destructive deer get a new option to hunt them. The new Deer Management Assistance Program extra offers permits to farmers suffering crop damage to thin out deer densities around their fields.
From Narcan to gun silencers, opioid settlement cash pays law enforcement tabs. Nationwide, more than $61 million in opioid settlement funds were spent on law enforcement-related efforts in 2024, according to a yearlong investigation.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Janet Mills responds to latest Trump demands over SNAP payouts
- Graham Platner taps Maine progressive leader to head campaign
- Meet 3 local groups fighting men’s loneliness in Maine
- 2 more warming centers will open in Bangor this winter
- Feds arrested murder suspect riding scooter 1 hour after learning he was in Winterport
- State finds police justified in fatally shooting Portage man in February standoff
- Presque Isle approves 10th cannabis shop but wonders if there’s too much pot downtown
- Woodland Pulp pausing mill operations until end of December
- Bar Harbor child care center is closing after 2 years
- Wetland boardwalk could be built next to new Ellsworth courthouse
- Tie in Bucksport school board race may be headed to runoff election
- Parents in a midcoast town protest a transgender child’s place on basketball team
- Absentee ballots sent to Belfast-area school district voters omitted 2 local referendums
- Stranger grabbed a Maine middle-schooler while she was walking to school
- Fire causes heavy damage at Maine sawmill
- CMMC in Lewiston to end trauma center status Dec. 1
- Elderly Maine couple gets $19,500 back after computer scam
- Soccer is almost a religion for this Aroostook County town. Now it has another state title to worship.
- Penobscot Valley girls soccer wins 3rd straight state championship
- Bangor girls soccer wins back-to-back state championships
- ‘Someone has to lose’: Orono boys soccer falls just short in overtime battle
- Cape Elizabeth soccer shuts out Hermon girls in Class B championship
- UMaine football wins 6th straight game to keep playoff hopes alive
- Freshman goal-scoring machine off to blazing start for UMaine hockey
- Maine forward shines in 1st game back after missing last season
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“Mainers are tired of the rancor. They want solutions, not soundbites. And they are ready to lead by example.”
Opinion: Jared Golden’s departure shows why we must fix our broken politics, starting in Maine.
LIFE IN MAINE
Pure chaos chasing muskies on an annual Maine fishing trip. “In five and a half hours, we had 25 follows and landed four muskies, an incredible day in the musky world,” Outdoors contributor Kevin McKay writes.
The secret streams in western Maine where trout still play. Discover the beauty of fly-fishing in the Rangeley Lakes, where brook trout and landlocked salmon thrive in pristine waters.
Many hunters have no problem shooting a white deer. Some people pointed out that the meat from an albino deer is not any different from the meat from a regular deer.
