Today is Thursday. Temperatures will in the low 60s to mid-50s from north to south, with partly cloudy skies throughout the state. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
A line of people wait to enter the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Wednesday, the first day that all Mainers 16 and older were eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
It will still be a while before everyone is able to get a shot as vaccine supply remains tight.
Turbines in the Bull Hill Wind project in Township 16 in Hancock County rotate in the breeze in this May 2018 file photo. Credit: Bill Trotter / BDN
Several counties and towns are finding out they are getting less revenue out of the wind projects than they had expected when they were wooed in the 2000s and 2010s by developers looking to erect turbines several hundred feet tall along local remote, elevated ridgelines.
This May 10, 2018 photo shows an arrangement of fentanyl test strips in New York. Sales of fentanyl test strips have exploded as a growing number of overdose-prevention programs hand them out to people who use illicit drugs. Credit: Mark Lennihan / AP
The kits will allow an individual to test substances for the presence of fentanyl and will also include information about treatment and recovery options.
Robert Bonner and Dona Robins are hoping to stay in Belfast, but are having a difficult time finding a place to rent. The housing crisis is so bad in midcoast Maine that on Craigslist, there are more ads from people looking for a place to live than actual places to live. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
Officials in Belfast, a city of 6,700 people, have been worrying about the problem of affordable housing scarcity for years. It turns out that the community also doesn’t have a lot of surplus market-rate housing at hand that can easily absorb all the people who are looking for places to live.
Luna the pug a few days after being rescued in Aroostook County. Credit: Courtesy of Charlotte Grotton
It took the efforts of an entire community to bring 1-year-old Luna the pug home exactly a month after she ran off into the woods on the upper end of Academy Street in Presque Isle on March 5.
Title frames for some of the many programs produced by WCVB in Boston. Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport will digitize the WCVB archive for the next two years. Credit: Courtesy of Northeast Historic Film
Over the next two years, Northeast Historic Film, located at Bucksport’s Alamo Theatre, will digitize WCVB’s massive collection of videotapes and 16 millimeter film reels, showcasing the 18 programs that were part of its groundbreaking slate of original programming, one of the largest such collections in the country.
A member of the Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society holds up a piece of blue-green tourmaline found while on a field trip at Havey Quarry in Poland, Maine. Credit: Courtesy of Maine Mineralogical and Geological Society
Pink, green and blue tourmaline, aquamarine beryl and deep red garnet, purple amethyst and sparkling lepidolite — they all lie buried in Maine granite. To find them, all you have to do is dig — and perhaps use a hammer and chisel.
