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PublishedAugust 18, 2024
Record number of breeding puffins recorded on island in Gulf of Maine
Seal Island, off the coast of Rockland, was once home to the area’s largest Atlantic puffin colony. Elsewhere, there are reminders that Gulf of Maine seabirds remain highly vulnerable.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2024
Public defender’s offices are opening across Maine. The next step: Staffing them.
In Bangor, at the epicenter of the state’s indigent defense crisis, the district defender has only been able to fill one of five positions.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2024
Group explores ambulance vessels as part of solution to island care crisis
Ambulance boats, which are common in countries like Norway, would function as floating mini hospitals.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2024
Gulf of Maine lobsters are experiencing a housing crisis
While lobster populations have declined recently, decades of growth in the Gulf of Maine have led to changes in the animals’ habitat, scientists say.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2024
William Calley, Army officer and face of My Lai Massacre, is dead at 80
He was the only person convicted in connection with the atrocity, in which American troops killed hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese men, women and children.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2024
The Maine Supreme Court asked large law firms to help with the public defender crisis. For the most part, they haven’t.
But criminal defense attorneys warn that their work is specialized, and not just any lawyer can step in and provide quality legal representation that ensures the rights of the accused are protected.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2024
Last year, Maine made assaulting an emergency medical worker a felony. The problem of patient violence remains
Prior to the new law, health care workers filed 167 intentional injury lost time claims in the first 7 months of 2023; 114 were filed in the first 4 months after the law took effect.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2024
Proposed offshore wind port on Sears Island raises new conflicts for coastal Mainers, environmental activists
Residents concerned about both climate change and preservation are conflicted over plans for a facility on Sears Island that could be key to launching Maine’s offshore wind industry.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2024
Molotov cocktails placed on railroad tracks in Rockland, police say
The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating after a cloth-filled bottle caused a fire Saturday.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2024
As ecotourism grows, so does the desire to maintain Down East Maine’s wild character
‘They want to build attractions, but the fact that there is nothing here is the attraction,’ says the co-founder of one outdoors group.
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