Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Quote of the Day

“You don’t have to try to fix everything at once. Just be a positive force in every interaction you have with an adolescent.”

— Rachel Wilcox, a primary care nurse practitioner in Rockport, speaking at the Camden-Rockport Middle School in late April during a panel on teen mental health.

Today’s Top Maine Stories

A group of motivated people in the Rockland area are figuring out how to better support their most troubled youth. Police, schools and community volunteers are seeing signs of progress, but the problems are large.

A midcoast town’s plan to ease the housing crisis was rejected by voters Monday night. St. George’s Kinney Woods project is the latest effort in the state to boost housing inventory to fail this year.

This is why feds are trying to seize houses that were sites of illegal marijuana growing operations. Lawsuits filed late last week in federal court in Bangor are the first step in a bid to take ownership of the properties by civil forfeiture.

Bangor picked different locations for five new public bathrooms, after some of the first locations were panned by neighbors.

Bangor now has a chapter of the Silent Book Club. The international phenomenon is an introvert’s dream.

Maine in Pictures

More News from Around the State

• Janet Mills will not remove embattled Oxford County sheriff

• Judge dismisses RFK Jr.’s lawsuit against Maine secretary of state

• Lawmakers gut bill aimed at protecting Maine lakes

• Maine opioid settlement money is being directed toward policing

• Questions surround Maine opioid settlement process after county committee dissolves

• Mainely Mercantile reopens at new Bangor location

• Orono hires new public works director

• Aroostook is Maine’s biggest creator of farm food waste, study finds

• New substance use recovery center helps fill a need in northern Maine

• Woman gets 55 years for brutal Down East slaying
  Machias hospital turns to mediation amid union negotiations

• Ellsworth man gets 2 years for driving stolen truck over victim’s leg

• Southern Maine man arrested for role in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

• Police raid illegal marijuana grow house in Freedom

• Nearly 1,300 marijuana plants seized at illegal growhouse in Harmony

• Foxcroft Academy no-hits Orono on the road

• Young pitches Brewer to softball win over Hermon

Video of the Week

The young eagle in this video provided by Bangor Daily News Outdoors contributor Allie Ladd probably couldn’t believe its lucky day when it came across the road kill Ladd had placed on the log near the game camera. But the bird’s luck ran out when the big birds moved in, trying to get their pieces of the meal. The young bird held its own against the fully mature eagles, although we don’t know what happened in the next sequence.

From the Opinion Pages

Life in Maine

Longtime BDN reporter Julia Bayly retired last week. On Saturday, she was eating mealworm tacos in the name of journalism.

The outdoors essays in Ryan Brod’s new book, “Tributaries,” by Islandport Press “put you there — in the bow of the canoe or on the fishing platform of the Keys skiff,” V. Paul Reynolds writes.

Has turkey hunting become too commercialized? BDN Outdoors contributor Chris Sargent thinks so.

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