Today is Thursday. Temperatures will be in the low 50s to low 60s from north to south, with partly sunny skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
The outbreak associated with Brooks Pentecostal Church and its Lighthouse Christian Academy now involves at least 46 cases, up from 42 on Tuesday and 17 over the weekend.
The Nine Dragons Paper Mill in Old Town. Credit: Nina Mahaleris / The Penobscot Times
The mill suspended production after discovering that chemicals were spilling into the river through a ruptured underground sewer line and a failed floor drain on Oct. 7.
Byron Dill, owner of Dill’s Outdoors in Bangor, holds up a box of Remington ammunition at his store. Credit: John Holyoke / BDN
If you’re a hunter or recreational shooter who’s been struggling to find ammunition, you’re not alone.
Maine secretary of state floats crackdown on confusing ‘blizzard’ of absentee ballot mailers
In this Dec. 5, 2018, file photo, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap shakes hands after the Legislature elected him to another term. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
A deluge of mailers urging Mainers to request absentee ballots —even although a record share already have voted that way in the 2020 election — is annoying or confusing many in the run-up to the 2020 election reshaped by the coronavirus.
Tom Savage poses with (from left) daughter Maisie, wife Meghan and daughters Helayna and Brooke. Savage, a well-liked former Mount Desert Island High School girls soccer coach, died unexpectedly last week. Credit: Courtesy of Laura Savage-Leonard
The Maine soccer community suffered a blow on Oct. 12 when former Mount Desert Island High School coach Tom Savage died from a work-related accident on Route 102. He was 46.
President Donald Trump speaks Monday at a campaign rally at Tucson International Airport in Tucson, Arizona. Credit: Alex Brandon / AP
President Donald Trump is banking on trade policy, defense and the economy in the last two weeks of his fight to retain Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, testing whether his message has the same resonance amid the coronavirus pandemic as it did four years ago.
This photo combo shows incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, left, and Republican former state Rep. Dale Crafts, right, candidates in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in the Nov. 3, 2020, general election. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, a freshman Democrat, and former state Rep. Dale Crafts, R-Lisbon, broke little ground on topics such as health care and federal coronavirus relief that have been top ones in a relatively sedate race that Golden has led handily this year after narrowly beating a Republican incumbent in the most expensive race in state history to that point.
In this 2018 file photo, Connor Grogan hangs Halloweeen decorations in a tree at his parents’ home on Bangor’s Maple Street. Credit: Gabor Degre / BDN
People who have never been to a Halloween on Maple Street in Bangor might not believe it when they’re told that each year, thousands of people crowd the residential street on the city’s East Side. This year, however, the majority of Maple Street residents are asking the hordes of trick-or-treaters who descend on the neighborhood to please, just this year, stay away.
