The UMaine graduate just missed the podium but dramatically improved his performance from the 2022 Winter Games.
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Local Maine news from the Portland Press Herald.
Early Brunswick school budget draft calls for 5% tax hike
The school board will consider changes to the budget before voting to approve it and bringing it before the Town Council in April.
Portland rent board says landlord should pay former tenants $30,000 in overcharged rent
The landlord claims he lived in the basement of his 3-unit building and therefore should be exempt from the city’s rent control ordinance.
The psychology behind Eliot Cutler’s repeated arrests
The disgraced former gubernatorial candidate, convicted of possessing child pornography, told police during his most recent arrest he ‘has had this problem for 65 years.’ Scholars doubt whether ‘porn addiction’ actually exists.
Waldoboro eel farm shutters, leaving harvesters and tribe high and dry
American Unagi’s assets are now owned by a bank as the search for a buyer continues.
Kennebunk Land Trust undertaking effort to make trails more accessible
The initiative, which the land trust hopes to expand, also includes work to improve signage and parking areas, as well as online descriptions of the trails.
Second employee dies after January gas leak at Baileyville plant
The leak at Woodland Pulp last month killed 20-year-old Kasie Malcolm, who died hours after the incident, and injured several other workers.
Maine CDC announces 4 new measles cases
The new cases are all in Penobscot County, according to state health officials.
Late Rev. Jesse Jackson came to Maine for presidential campaign, conference
The civil rights leader, who visited Portland and Orono, died Tuesday.
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, a longtime Maine resident, dies at 96
The influential Oscar-winning documentarian had summered in Northport since 1974, and one of his many films was about nearby Belfast.