Two of L.L.Bean’s famous Bootmobiles will deliver bags stuffed with toys to communities this week as part of the Portland Press Herald Toy Fund.
Drew Johnson
Staff Writer
Drew is the night reporter for the Portland Press Herald. He previously covered South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth for the Sentry, Leader and Southern Forecaster. Though he is from Massachusetts, Drew grew up going to his family’s lake house in Denmark, Maine, learning to snow ski at Pleasant Mountain and water ski on Moose Pond. While he started as a “Vacationlander”, Drew adopted “the way life should be” motto and moved to Portland in 2021.
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Maine Human Rights Commission suing school districts over transgender policies
Five school districts are named in the lawsuit over policies the commission says violate state law.
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FAA tapers back flight limits at over 40 airports
The agency says the mandatory 6% flight cuts are being downgraded to 3% beginning Saturday morning.
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Enrollment at Job Corps centers to resume in Maine
Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King pushed back this summer against the Trump administration’s pausing of operations at nearly 100 Job Corps sites across the country.
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Connecticut man charged with murder in Corinth shooting
Jawon Owens, 27, of East Hartford, is accused of fatally shooting Scott Roberts, 46, of Glenburn, in September.
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Snow is coming to some areas of Maine this weekend
Some parts of the state will see snow and others will see rain, but it was too soon on Thursday to predict where the incoming weather system will hit hardest, forecasters say.
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Maine expands recall of cannabis vape cartridges
Last month’s recall of a strain of a Yani product sold at 21 stores has been expanded by the state’s Office of Cannabis Policy to include three more strains and five more stores.
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Portland Harbor gets its first public electric-boat charger
The charger was put to the test on Thursday by the Heron, an electric aquaculture boat launched by Maine Ocean Farms in Freeport this summer.
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Missing Portland woman found safe, police say
The 38-year-old had been reported missing Wednesday.
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Human remains found in Blaine identified as Maine woman missing since July
Tomis Hoyt, 36, of the Presque Isle area, had not been seen since July 13, the Aroostook County Sheriff’s Office said.