Today is Friday. Temperatures will be in the low 50s to low 60s from north to south, with mostly sunny skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
A lobster boat pulls away from a Portland wharf, headed for the harbor on May 24, 2021. According to the latest national numbers, salmon has outpaced lobster for the highest-grossing wild-caught domestic fishery. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
In Maine, though, lobster still tops the charts, with no serious rivals.
Shannon Campbell gets instruction from Belfast VFW Commander Anthony Kimble on how to place a flag on a veteran’s gravestone at Grove Cemetery in Belfast. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
It was their first class field trip for the Ames Elementary School fourth-graders since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and the 29 students were on a mission — to put the flags on the graves of the people who had served in the armed forces. But they were also there to learn why this particular task matters so much.
In this Feb. 13, 2018, file photo, two dockless LimeBikes share the sidewalk with others from Washington, D.C.’s docked share program called Capital Bikeshare in Washington. The city of Portland put out a call for bike share design companies this week and hopes to launch a bike share program of its own by June 2022. Credit: Jacquelyn Martin / AP
Bike share programs have gained in popularity over the last decade as a way to ease traffic congestion and fight pollution.
A Waldo County Bounty volunteer with an armful of fresh greens. Credit: Courtesy of Waldo County Bounty
The windfall came thanks to Erin French of The Lost Kitchen, who used her creative reservation system to encourage donations to the nonprofit organization.
Northern Light Health Maine Coast Hospital in Ellsworth.
In its decision issued Wednesday, the federal First Circuit appeals court upheld a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that Northern Light Health Maine Coast Hospital violated federal labor laws when it fired Karen Jo Young for writing a letter to the editor at the Ellsworth American in support of nurses and physicians at the hospital.
