TUESDAY, FEB. 20, 2024

“I have seen sane scientists lose their minds during totality. It is a cathartic reaction.”

— Ralph Chou, a retired professor at the University of Waterloo School of Optometry and Vision Science in Canada, on how protecting your eyes during a total solar eclipse is harder than it seems.

Today’s Top Stories

If you look at the weather trends in Maine in recent years, you see a clear pattern of warming, especially in winter, especially in the Northeast, according to the latest National Climate Assessment and many other sources.

As a result of that warming, a rice-sized beetle that has killed millions of acres of pines in southern forests is munching its way north, and new research suggests its tree-killing prowess could be magnified in cooler climes.

Brunswick is considering spending $380,000 on a new armored vehicle that police say is needed for incidents like last year’s mass shooting in Lewiston. Opponents object to the military bearing and the cost.

The parents of a man killed in a 2021 crash in Hampden are suing the company that engineered the guardrail they say failed to keep their son’s car from plunging into a stream where he drowned.

When a child showed up at a Bangor-area hospital with life-threatening injuries and died during the night, the hospital called not only the police but the Department of Health and Human Services. Details were scant on Monday, but more are likely to emerge in the coming days.

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Life in Maine

Four new part-time purveyors are set to start serving up diverse international cuisines in the coming weeks, in the Veazie space also known as Korean Dad, Lee’s Korean food kitchen.

An Old Town 22-year-old hooked a winning togue and got it on the scale two minutes before the end of the Schoodic Lake Ice Fishing Derby over the weekend.

And finally, BDN Outdoors contributor V. Paul Reynolds does a post-mortem on the fall game hunting season, with statistics.

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