1+ hour, 15+ min ago   (239+ words) Bangor Daily News Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to [email protected] I have lived in three houses in my 81 years, all within three blocks in Belfast. Currently, my lovely wife and…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (534+ words) Bangor’s assistant city manager, who is leaving her position later this fall, plans to start her own consulting business to help municipalities and nonprofits. Courtney O’Donnell has been with the city for five years and wants to use her experience…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (241+ words) Bangor Daily News Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to [email protected] I’m writing about the Sept. 4 BDN article about Maine seeing the nation’s third highest jump in ICE arrests of people…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (527+ words) Madawaska town officials will address funding for the town’s recent NoMa Summerfest — an event they projected would cost nearly $90,000 and pledged to fund without tax dollars — during an upcoming Select Board meeting next week. Forget the talking points. We go…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (485+ words) Bangor city councilors plan to give the remaining funding needed to reopen the Together Place Peer Run Recovery Center. The center, which serves community members struggling with mental illness and addiction, closed its drop-in program and low-cost meals program at…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (866+ words) A group of Down East residents is fighting its school district’s anti-transgender resolution that passed just months after a candidate backed by a statewide right-wing political action committee won a school board seat in Franklin. As part of its efforts,…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (543+ words) FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington is excited to invite members of the public to see an original 1776 Dunlap Broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence, learn about Maine’s role in the American Revolution and enjoy a number of…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (479+ words) ROCKLAND, Maine — A 40-year-old former Rockland resident was given a sentence of time served for his role in the attempted coverup of the July 2024 killing of 45-year-old Kyle MacDougall in Cushing. John G. Flower Jr., who now resides in Appleton,…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (698+ words) Twelve candidates are clamoring for the support of Bangor voters in this year’s City Council race, and once again, homelessness and illegal drug use are front of mind as Queen City residents weigh their options. Concerns about rising property taxes…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (422+ words) VINALHAVEN, Maine — A group of Vinalhaven residents is asking for 90 days to see if the community can come up with a feasible plan to preserve the former home of Robert Indiana for use by the community. “Since the sale was…...