The address follows recent challenges the state is facing, including the Lewiston mass shootings in October and a deadly wind and rainstorm last month.
2024
High school schedules and scores for Jan. 4-5
High school games for Thursday, Jan. 4, and Friday, Jan. 5
Sustainable Practice: Sustainable technology to start 2024
It’s the start of a new year, a great time to think about the future and our role in it. Will we be smart enough to develop sustainable technologies and wise enough to deploy them? Let’s take a tour of technologies that show real promise for sustainability in 2024 and beyond. Artificial intelligence computer algorithms […]
Letters to the editor: WIC funding; popular vote; gun control
Congress needs to fund WIC program If Congress fails to fully fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) by Jan. 19, states will need to reduce WIC participation by about 2 million young children and pregnant and postpartum adults nationwide by September, with harm falling disproportionately on Black and Hispanic […]
Russia and Ukraine exchange long-range attacks as front-line forces remain bogged down
Russia’s Defense Ministry says air defenses shot down 10 Ukrainian air-launched missiles over the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
Giving Voice: The push to meet growing need of hungry families
I have been serving with Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program for over a decade, but my tenure as executive director is still new. I take this responsibility seriously, and I deeply value the trust that has been placed in me to lead this organization and community into the future. I look forward to what we […]
Sports Digest: Mets and outfielder Bader agree to 1-year deal for about $10 million
Center fielder Harrison Bader played a little more than a year with the Yankees.
Portland sees end-of-year surge in drug overdoses, but fewer deaths in 2023
Statewide, drug overdose deaths reported from January-November 2023 declined 13.6% compared to the same period the year before.
Richmond man arrested after allegedly setting fire to family member’s home
The blaze allegedly set by Robert Jolly, 40, destroyed a house on Arnie Drive and killed a cat. Two people who lived at the home, and their dogs, escaped without injury.
Brunswick Staples workers vote against unionizing
Brunswick Staples workers rejected forming a union in a 6-7 vote. Had the majority of workers voted to unionize, it would have been the first Staples to form a union in the U.S.