In their words, the motivations behind “No Kings” protesters

FARMINGTON — Many citizens from Farmington and other Maine towns gathered downtown for a “No Kings” protest yesterday. The call for this event to take place on Saturday, October 18, starting at 11:00 am, was spread via social media platforms such...

'We’re 100% in': Former Gov. Paul LePage on what's motivating him to run for Congress

Paul LePage wants to remove any doubt that he is fully committed to running for Congress in 2026 in the northern, ultra-competitive 2nd Congressional District. AUGUSTA, Maine — Paul LePage, Maine’s Republican governor from 2011-19, wants to remove...

Survey ranks Minnesota as eighth-safest state in America

The research by personal finance website WalletHub compared states on a number of metrics, including violent crime, fatal car crashes and number of sex offenders. MINNEAPOLIS — With violent crime, natural disasters and chaos on the roadways, more...

UVA scientists map east coast's ghost forests

You can see them from space— swaths of bleached trees that were drowned by flooding or poisoned by salt water as sea levels rose. But satellite imagery isn’t detailed enough to tell the whole story. That’s why UVA grad student Henry Yeung started...

These 19 Seacoast high school teams could win state titles this fall

The time has come. The regular season for high school sports this fall in Seacoast New Hampshire and Maine is nearing the end, and teams are making final tweaks to get as close to "tournament ready" as possible. Broken into categories by sport, we...

'IT: Welcome to Derry' Episode 1 Is Bloody Good

Like Pennywise himself, director Andy Muschietti knows how to make an entrance. Across both IT (2017) and IT: Chapter Two (2019), Bill Skärsgard's demonic entity occasionally slithers into frame, slowly and eerily, through the cracks of what's...

26 years after lobster die-off, CT lobstermen reflect on a net loss

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Create more of it with a tax-deductible donation today. Bart Mansi used to haul a thousand pounds of lobster a day. Now he sets out just a couple dozen traps, out of...

Camden Hills Regional High School Student Leadership Forum focuses on conversation, discovery

The Five Town CSD hosted its second annual Student Leadership Forum October 15, welcoming 42 juniors and seniors from Camden Hills for a day of dialog, discovery and leadership development. The event, held at the Camden Yacht Club, was organized...

Unidentified floating objects? Belgrade’s Great Pond residents intrigued by unmanned vessels

This unmanned watercraft is one of several that people on Great Pond in Belgrade and Rome have reported seeing in recent weeks. (Courtesy of Ed Ducharme) Have the robots arrived to invade Great Pond? Most likely not. But in recent weeks, those who...

Moving through our desired paths

By Aiden LiVigni on October 27, 2025 The little dirt off-shoot of the pavement, soft ground underfoot replacing hard rock. Getting to your class a little faster, wandering a little more. It is likely that everyone reading this has, at some point,...

Daylight saving time ends in a few days. Here's where each state stands on making daylight saving time permanent

Is it time to stop changing our clocks twice a year? Here's a state-by-state look at efforts to make daylight saving time permanent. WASHINGTON — In just a few days, millions of Americans will gain an hour of sleep as daylight saving time ends. On...

Davenport: Clarke County School Board needs a younger member

BERRYVILLE — It's time for the Clarke County School Board to have a younger member, Lindy Davenport believes. Davenport is one of two candidates for the board's Buckmarsh District seat in a special election Nov. 4. Lindy Davenport Mickey...

Can a Squad of Progressive Vets Storm Capitol Hill in 2026?

During the mid-term election next year, the Democratic Party hopes to regain lost ground on Capitol Hill by running a new crop of “service candidates”—men and women whose campaign bios stress their past experience in the military and national...

Front Porch Chatter: Oct. 20, 2025

Greetings dear friends and kind readers and welcome back for a mid-October visit here on the Front Porch where the sun rose this morning at 7:05, will set this evening at 5:58, and where we're still catching up on all that's happened in the weeks...

Letter: Chapman for Bucksport Town Council

Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com As long-time members of the Bucksport community, we want to add our names to the list of citizens who will vote for Ralph...

Candidate Questionnaire: Matt Padbury

Matt Padbury is a 2025 Democratic candidate for Vestal Town Council. Born and raised in the Town of Maine, New York, Padbury is president of the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Local 1883 and has 19 years of experience...

House Rep Demands Answers About Delayed EPA Report on Toxic Forever Chemical

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. What Happened: The ranking member of a key House subcommittee demanded answers this week from the...

Land returns to Indigenous nations focus of Mitchell Center talk

ORONO — The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a panel discussion about land return, rematriation and conservation work led by Indigenous peoples at 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 20. These...

CT needs to plan for its energy future, but the view is cloudy

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Create more of it with a tax-deductible donation today. Connecticut, along with the rest of New England, has long recognized that its energy future lies in cleaning up the...

It: Welcome to Derry turns the politics of 1962 America into its most terrifying monster

It begins like a story we’ve seen before – a group of children, a lurking evil, a town that looks the other way. But within the first hour, It: Welcome to Derry makes it clear this isn’t that story. Set in 1962, decades before the Losers’ Club was...