Monday, Dec. 9, 2024

Quote of the Day


“That crazy market that we had a couple years ago is gone, where we had to sit in our cars and write offers.”


— Julie Barros, a real estate agent with Lighthouse Real Estate Group, on the cooling housing market.


Today’s Top Maine Stories

The new Maine Legislature is finally changing how it operates. The Legislature will only hold floor sessions on Tuesdays rather than on multiple days for the first few weeks of next year.

Sharp price cuts are tilting Maine’s hot housing market toward buyers. Though price cuts usually happen around this time every year as the market chills with the weather, they are at the highest level nationwide that they have been in five years.

Belfast is divided after UMaine backed out of a deal to sell the Hutchinson Center to Calvary Chapel Belfast. The original offer to sell the center to the church prompted backlash, with some arguing that it should remain a public gathering and education space.

Ambulance services are in jeopardy for part of Penobscot County’s unorganized territories. Unorganized territories rely on surrounding towns, the county and state to provide essential services because they lack their own municipal governments.

A Maine photographer's surfer portraits are getting new attention 25 years later. Eugene Cole's quiet portraits capture a time when the sport was less mainstream and far fewer surfers were catching waves on Maine's coast.

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News from Around the State

Maine in Pictures

Chile (center) and Hank the livestock guardian dogs with the herd they protect at Abraham's Goat Farm and Creamery in Newport. With the dogs keeping watch, owner Kaili Wardwell is comfortable letting her goats eat trees and plants in the farm's woods, saving on hay bills. Credit: Courtesy of Kaili Wardwell

From the Opinion Pages

Life in Maine

Maine could be ending its controversial moose herd management strategy. The addition of an adaptive hunt in the North Maine Woods was an attempt to mitigate the tick population, but has had mixed reception from hunters and wildlife biologists.


Does technology blur the lines of ethical hunting? “The answers to your ethical questions may be rooted in why you hunt and how you view the animals you seek,” BDN Outdoors editor Julie Harris writes.


People are already ice fishing where it’s allowed. Early season freezing attracts a group of hardcore fishermen who venture out on even just an inch and a half of ice.


More Mainers are using dogs to guard their animals, but there’s a catch. Dogs do a combination of jobs no person, piece of equipment or other animal can, but keeping a dog is its own occupation. Another dog activity, canicross, is catching on in Maine.

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