Today is Thursday. Temperatures will be in the high 60s to high 70s from north to south, with mostly cloudy skies and a chance for scattered showers throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
Gov. Janet Mills presents Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav Shah with a 12-pack of Diet Coke at a press conference in the State House on Wednesday. Shah’s love for the soft drink was well-documented during numerous press briefings during the pandemic. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
The news conferences were a daily ritual at the start of the pandemic when the virus captivated the state’s attention and Mainers were isolated in their homes, unsure about next steps.
Guardrails along Route 186 in the Gouldsboro village of Birch Harbor hang suspended in the air on June 9 after torrential rain that morning caused a creek to swell and flow over the road, eventually sweeping part of the road away.
The deluge turned trickling creeks into rivers and washed away large sections of road in Jonesboro, Machias, Roque Bluffs and Birch Harbor.
A man walks his dog through Bangor’s Second Street Park on Wednesday. Volunteers and leaders from the Together Place recovery center and the United Way of Eastern Maine worked together to clean up the park last Monday, which included the removal of several hypodermic needles.
The group is sprucing up the area just outside of downtown that includes Union Street and First, Second and Third streets.
Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham, speaks at the Belfast Rotary Club about his consumer-owned utility proposal on Nov. 13, 2019.
Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham, amended his bill on Wednesday to make the new utility pay property taxes. That change won over Sen. Ned Claxton, D-Auburn, who was one of two senators who flipped to derail final passage earlier this month.
Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Windham, is pictured in his committee seat on March 13, 2017. Credit: Micky Bedell / BDN
The budget has been workshopped for weeks after the governor revised her package following nearly $1 billion in revised revenue projections for the next two years.
A family walks down Main Street in Rockland, past the Farnsworth Art Museum and Strand Theater, two of the arts-related institutions helping to cement Rockland’s reputation as an art destination.
Folks in the arts and downtown community feel the return of the tradition will be a great way to bring people together as the pandemic wanes.
