Today is Wednesday. Temperatures will be in the 50s throughout the state, with mostly sunny skies in the north and clouds to the south. Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
Anna Barton sorts items at the Goodwill of Northern New England warehouse facility in Gorham on Tuesday. Last year, the nonprofit spent more than $1.2 million throwing trash away. That’s a 155 percent increase over what it spent in 2015. Credit: Troy R. Bennett / BDN
Mainers have donated everything from lidless Tupperware, unpaired socks, old underwear to broken toys.
Atlantic salmon swim in a pool of the Sandy River in western Maine in this 2019 photo. The fish on the right was captured twice at the Lockwood Dam in the Kennebec River in Waterville and Winslow, one of four targeted for removal under a controversial state plan. Credit: Courtesy of Maine Department of Marine Resources
Mills dismissed Brookfield’s concerns, saying the large company should be able to comply with the rules.
In this March 2, 2021, file photo, a pharmacy technician loads a syringe with Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Portland Expo. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
The practice is blessed by Maine health officials, who are advising providers to give leftover vaccines to eligible people first but say the most important thing is that no doses go unused.
C&L Aviation CEO Chris Kilgour is pictured in his company’s hangar at Bangor International Airport in February 2020. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN
The pandemic isn’t stopping C&L from completing several projects that will expand its Bangor footprint and potentially grow its pipeline of future employees.
In July, Shane McGarvey opened Maine Kebab ― a fast-casual takeout restaurant ― in downtown Waldoboro and less than six months later he opened a second location in Rockland. Credit: Lauren Abbate / BDN
Waldoboro-based chef and wedding caterer Shane McGarvey has a pretty straightforward purpose in life: he just needs to feed people.
