Monday, Oct. 28, 2024

Quote of the Day

“What I was actually interested in was doing what I wasn't good at. That was part of the thing that drove me. I was trying to go from being a person who just used their brain to a person who had a body as well.”

— Kal Winer of Appleton recalling a friend telling him to quit homesteading and return to what he was good at. Winer, who had been a dean of students at a college in New Hampshire, moved to Maine with Linda Tatelbaum in 1977 and built an off-grid home where they still live today.

Today’s Top Maine Stories

Jared Golden and Austin Theriault are fighting hard for these rural swing voters. Interviews with customers at Jimbob’s General Store on Denmark’s Main Street gave glimpses of each man’s appeal and weaknesses.

In a Sunday call to Maine Republicans, Donald Trump repeated his line that the U.S. has become “a garbage can.”The call was aimed at getting his supporters firmly behind Theriault.

For all the conflict around political signs in Maine, they may not even work. When signs do help candidates, it tends to be down ballot in smaller, more local races, where name recognition can’t be taken for granted.

A Maine couple who went back to the land and off the grid in 1977 are still there. With the home built, solar panels wired, garden established and child raised, the work now lies in keeping things going and deciding what changes to make as they age.

A new state program is helping connect town leaders to resources they need to get municipal projects off the ground. It comes at a time when many rural towns are facing problems with affordable housing, downtown revitalization and more.

News from Around the State

• 4 things the scant polls of Maine tell us to expect on Election Day

• Visas for Maine’s foreign seasonal workers could be in short supply

• Struggling Bangor health care provider further restricts walk-in services

• Man wanted for alleged assault of UMaine students taken into custody

• How scientists are using drones to help Aroostook potatoes

• 5 candidates are running for a pair of Ellsworth council seats

• Brunswick questions airport group’s tax benefits after foam spill

• Historic sea captains’ homes still abound in the midcoast after one fell

• A Burnham man is missing

• Mainer drives tugboats in New York Harbor and paints them at home

• Former Portland educator serving 2 decades for sexually abusing minor dies in NJ prison

• Arrest warrant issued for southern Maine legislator

• Southern Maine man dies in head-on collision

• UMaine women’s soccer rallies for tie with NJ Institute of Tech

• UMaine hockey ties at Northeastern, winning extra point in shootout

• URI football gets 6 sacks in win over UMaine

Maine in Pictures

From the Opinion Pages

Life in Maine

Outdoors Editor Julie Harris recently shot her first moose. It was a goal more than 20 years in the making.

Consider wearing hunter orange this fall, even if you’re not a hunter. Throughout Maine, many of the properties that are open to hunting are also open to hiking, paddling, ATVing and other outdoor activities.

Watch these blue jays torment an owl. Blue jays fly relatively slowly, making themselves easy prey to owls and hawks, but jays are often emboldened in the daytime when owls are off the clock.

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