Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024

Quote of the Day

“We’ve taken some older people out in office chairs. Some have walked into the polls but just can’t make it any further, so I’d like to have a wheelchair to make that easier.”

— Presque Isle City Clerk Kim Finnemore on a $20,000 grant the city received to make its polls more accessible on Election Day.

Today’s Top Stories

A group hired to provide Bangor with cleaning, hospitality and safety services is now patrolling the city’s downtown. Their blaze orange shirts should make them easy to spot.

Bangor wants a historic designation for one of its parks. Properties on the list are eligible for federal grants and tax incentives to help rehabilitate and maintain the site.

Nearly 7 acres are for sale near downtown Augusta, but no one’s buying despite the need for housing in Maine’s capital city. Developers say the price isn’t quite right to offset construction costs.

You could buy the home of a Maine sea captain who once challenged Harry Houdini. Elliott C. Gardner once stood at the helm of the Frank A. Palmer, a skipper that was briefly the largest floating ship of its kind.

A Mainer has been infected with the West Nile virus, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. It’s been four years since the last locally contracted case of the mosquito-borne virus was detected in the state.

News from Around the State

• Maine regulators waive requirement on approving Spanish firm’s takeover of CMP parent

• Man shot on Hogan Road in Bangor

• Bangor’s Wicked Brew Cafe is closing

• Ten Bucks Theatre is looking for a new home

• Bangor bus and car crash on Union Street

• Postal Service won’t consolidate services from Hampden mail facility

• Post Malone brings his revamped country sound to last summer waterfront concert

• National grant funds will help more Presque Isle residents vote

• MDI officials fear changes to housing project fought by neighbors

• Hancock County probate judge suspended over rules violations

• Man injured when he crashed his SUV into Auburn Walmart shipping container

• Maine man gets 15 years for selling fake pills laced with fentanyl

• Massachusetts man hurt while skydiving in Maine

• Ace Flagg makes 1st official college visit to UMaine

Maine in Pictures

From the Opinion Pages

Life in Maine

Proponents of changing the Maine state flag at the ballot box this fall say the current flag design is boring. What’s not boring, however, is the Maine state seal itself. Here’s why the 1820 seal is so symbolic of Maine.

Going to the Common Ground Fair in Unity this weekend? Here are all the ways you can beat the traffic gridlock and have a pleasant journey to the beloved September event.

Did you know that there’s still plenty of things you can forage at this time of year? Fall can be a great time for foraging in Maine — if you know what to look for.

The world is a better place without the carcinogenic pesticide DDT, and a tinkering UMaine chemistry professor is one of the people we can thank, BDN Homestead contributor Nick Thomas writes.

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