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Good morning. Temperatures will be in the low 20s to low 30s from north to south with partly sunny skies throughout the state and a chance for snow in the south. Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

Wishes that have come true -- and haven’t -- in downtown Bangor over the past decade

  • Nearly 10 years ago, downtown residents, patrons, business owners and community leaders made predictions, shared their hopes for the future and aired some concerns. Here's how those predictions panned out.
Don’t expect Legislative Democrats to push for gun control in 2020
  • The Legislative Council blocked all but one bill related to guns from being introduced during its fall sessions. The surviving effort from state Sen. Geoffrey Gratwick, D-Bangor, would ban firearms on nursery school and childcare facility properties. It remains tabled.
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A man wanted to pass on his family’s cemetery to the city, only to find out he no longer owns it

  • Doug Shorey's great-grandfather originally built the Maple Grove Cemetery in the early 1950s and it has been maintained by someone in their family ever since. The only problem is, his family doesn’t own it.
This Bangor native co-wrote the upcoming Hollywood courtroom drama ‘Just Mercy’
  • Growing up in Bangor, Hollywood screenwriter Andrew Lanham would sometimes watch courtroom movies with his father, the respected Bangor attorney Samuel Lanham, who died in 2013 at the age of 61. So when he and his longtime collaborator, director and screenwriter Destin Daniel Cretton, were working on adapting lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s acclaimed 2014 nonfiction book “Just Mercy” for film, he had his father’s desire for cinematic realism always in the back of his mind.
Hospital mergers across US have raised health care prices. Now, another is pending in Maine.
  • Size matters when it comes to health care.

    Just ask the leaders of Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, who have been forging ahead with a deal that they say is critical for the long-term survival of their 25-bed facility.

As ticks continue to spread in Maine, here’s what to expect in the coming years

  • Ticks have spread throughout Maine over the past few decades, carrying with them a cocktail of crippling diseases. In response, health care providers, researchers, educators, nonprofits and the government have been working to protect people from this dangerous pest.

    In 2019, Maine residents saw a number of new advancements in how Maine is handling this growing problem. Here’s rundown on what’s new in the world of ticks in Maine — the good and the bad.

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The most successful female inventor you’ve never heard of is from Maine
  • With no formal mechanical training, Helen Blanchard embarked on her career as the 19th century’s most successful female inventor.

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