Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Quote of the Day

“Now I understand that each nation that experiences freedom is a happy nation. It is a nation with a future.”

— Mariana Haletska, who with her two children fled war-torn Ukraine in March 2023 to live with a host family in Orono.

Today’s Top Maine Stories

Mariana Haletska and her children fled the war in Ukraine and found refuge in Maine. The Bangor Daily News followed them and their sponsor family in Orono over six months to chronicle their experiences and the uncertain future they face.

Bangor is finally going to try to document all of its rentals. The start of the project comes more than five years after it was recommended as a way to improve the city’s housing stock.

Here are three themes to watch ahead of Maine’s June 11 primary elections. The swing 2nd Congressional District race tops the bill.

A judge threw out DNA evidence in a decades-old Maine rape case. The judge said police didn't have the right to seize and search the suspect's trash without a warrant.

Maine in Pictures

More News from Around the State

• Brookfield is Maine’s hydropower king

• Bangor wants to expand its loitering ban

• Man dies after crashing truck into Hampden home

• Houlton school board member resigns because system ‘turned away from God’

• Eastport wants cruise ships. Federal staffing problems may complicate that.

• Truck and train collide in Waldo County

• Rockland sees uptick in false security alarms by businesses

• 2 ballfields have been dedicated to Lewiston shooting victims

• Man airlifted to Bangor hospital after moped crash

• Tractor-trailer spills manure on Maine road after crashing into ditch

• Hoax call sends Coast Guard on hours-long search of Casco Bay

• 6 storylines to follow in the upcoming high school softball playoffs

• 6 storylines to follow in the high school baseball playoffs

Video of the Week

This can be a common sight in the spring and early summer — a mom white-tailed deer and her fawn, grazing on spring abundance. Seth Raven of Waldo caught this doe-fawn pair, quietly grazing without a care in the world. The fawn gingerly keeps up with its mother on its wobbly new legs.

From the Opinion Pages

Life in Maine

The meaner you are to these plants, the better they will grow.

Knowing a few simple knots is invaluable on the homestead.

At the end of a fishing adventure in Labrador, the pancakes were one of the best memories, V. Paul Reynolds writes.

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