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Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 1 pm

 

Another regulator signals approval of controversial CMP hydropower project


The Land Use Planning Commission is the second regulator, behind the Maine Public Utilities Commission, to consider a permit for the project.
 
 
 

What do you remember about these odd Maine stories from 2019


Among all the very important news that happened in Maine in 2019 some truly odd stuff made headlines.
 
 
 

Allagash ice getting thicker, but central Maine anglers should use caution


Rangers checked the ice on Sunday and found between 8 and 12 inches of good ice on several lakes.
 
 
 

The best things we ate in Maine in 2019


We polled various staffers about what they loved in 2019, and after a quick memory jog, here are their picks.
 
 
 

3 years in, no sign of Trump’s replacement for Obamacare


Meanwhile, the uninsured rate has gone up on Trump's watch, rising in 2018 for the first time in nearly a decade to 8.5 percent of the population.
 
 
 

Maine’s minimum wage to rise to $12 on Jan. 1


Maine's minimum salary for exemption to overtime eligibility also will rise from $33,000 to $36,000 per year.
 
 
 

The Maine stories you cared about the most in 2019


Many of the stories that Bangor Daily News readers cared about the most this past year had one thing in common: loss.
 
 
 

Pelletier twins reunite on basketball court to boost Greenville girls’ title hopes


The Pelletier twins are both 5-foot-11 and have been a force in the paint for the Lakers.
 
 
 

$110M fish farm would mean changes for Jonesport, but locals hope not too many


Big changes could be in store for a quiet, lobster-fishing community in Washington County if a European firm ends up building a $110 million land-based fish farm on a largely undeveloped property overlooking Chandler Bay.
 
 
 

100 essential Maine albums of the decade


It would be impossible to construct a truly objective list of the best albums made in Maine. But here is BDN writer Nick Schroeder's attempt to name the best albums of the past decade.
 
 
 

Potent inside game carries Drexel past UMaine women’s basketball team


Bailey Greenberg connected on 13 of 20 shots from the floor on her way to a game-high 32 points to pace the Dragons.
 
 
 

New act allots $150 million in federal funds to fight tick-borne diseases


The new Kay Hagan Tick Act, signed into law Dec. 20, authorizes the use of $150 million in federal funds to bolster research, outreach and diagnosis of tick-borne diseases.
 
 
 

Rare video shows a puffin using a tool to scratch an itch


Five years ago, on a remote island in Wales, University of Oxford scientist Annette Fayet spied a puffin doing something she had never seen before. The bird, floating on the seawater beneath a cliff, held a stick in its beak.
 
 
 

Truck crashes on Maine Turnpike slow northbound traffic


Two tractor-trailer crashes in Monday’s snowstorm on the Maine Turnpike in Kennebunk and on the Saco-Scarborough line are expected to cause northbound traffic delays throughout the afternoon.
 
 

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