— Alex Gray, Waterfront Concerts founder and a leader of the new Bear Down Collective, said of a new effort to help UMaine Black Bears student-athletes get paid.
These four homes on the market are among Maine’s oldest. There are plenty of historic homes around the state that have been lovingly preserved or restored, including a number of properties built even before the American Revolution ended.
He sat in a Maine jail cell for 85 days without an attorney. Wayne Boulier's case highlights the two tiers of the state’s criminal justice system, in which one tier can afford to hire representation and the other relies on state-funded lawyers.
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Dan Kusnierz, water resources program manager with the Penobscot Nation, walks out to the shore of the Penobscot River on Indian Island Friday morning. A small-scale pilot test will begin cleaning up mercury in the river later this year. Credit: Linda Coan O’Kresik / BDN
“Too many people are falling through the cracks in our society, not because they are bad people, but because the cracks are too big. It requires sustained action, and compassion, at all levels of government to make things better.”
If you’re out birding in July, don’t stand under a turkey vulture. Its stomach acid is so strong that it can devour the victims of rabies, anthrax and other deadly diseases with total immunity. It will vomit in self-defense.
