Wednesday, March 27, 2024

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“This will definitely require some out-of-the-box thinking by developers, but we've seen schools and city halls converted successfully into housing.”

— Erik Jorgensen, director of governmental relations of MaineHousing, on a state plan to convert three old courthouses into housing projects.

Today’s Top Maine Stories

Judge allows Maine newspapers to unmask $1.35 billion lottery winner. "John Doe" says he got threats after his daughter's mother allegedly told family members he’d won.

Hampden’s school district might consolidate students by grade. More than 200 parents and community members attended a meeting about it on Tuesday.

Archival photos show how Maine prepared for its last total solar eclipse. Some of it will look familiar 60 years later.

An ad hoc group is scrambling to attract eclipse chasers to Greenville. They could provide a much-needed tourism boost after a dismal winter.

Dover-Foxcroft residents can keep their dam, but it will cost them. In June, voters will consider a plan to remove it and build a riverfront park, or the alternative.

Maine in Pictures

More News from Around the State

• Regulators propose reducing obstacles to mining lithium in Maine

• Maine lawmakers advance strict data privacy bill after months of debate

• Maine Senate votes to make former nuclear plant fully pay property taxes

• Maine lawmaker will return to work soon after State House medical emergency

• Maine utilities will be forbidden from disconnecting customers during severe heat

• Credit agencies downgrade Northern Light Health’s rating

• Budget airline will offer flights from Bangor to 3 Florida cities

• Man allegedly brandished knife while stealing cart of alcohol from Bangor Walmart

• 11-year-old Aroostook boy dies after crashing snowmobile

• Court documents detail Woodland selectman’s alleged threats toward town officials

• Train derails in northern Aroostook County

• Houlton to hire New Mexico man as town manager

• High court upholds Bar Harbor’s short-term rental restrictions

• Lamoine property developers eyed for ‘glamping’ resort is now permanently protected

• Man killed in Farmington crash while fleeing from police

• ‘Rolling gunfight’ leads Portland police to teen drug trafficking ring

• Missing Kennebunk man has been found

• Police search for driver in Saco hit-and-run

From the Opinion Pages

Life in Maine

These peaks in Baxter State Park are remote, difficult and majestic. For many winter mountaineers, they are a prized goal.

The second largest piece of the moon on the Earth is in Maine. You can see it at the Portland Jetport.

Like strawberry rhubarb pie? Here’s how to grow rhubarb in Maine.

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