Maine sets new record in reports of tick-borne disease in 2025

Aroostook distillery and dairy collaborate on popular rum-spiked lemonade

The first 50 cases of Sasquatch Summer Spiked Lemonade hit stores in mid-July, selling out almost immediately.

Creating a local green burial cemetery

BELFAST – Midcoast Maine Green Burial, a local volunteer organization formed to promote the creation of a green burial cemetery in Knox, Waldo and/or Lincoln county, will host a free public presentation about green burial in the Abbott Room at Belfast Free Library, located at 106 High St., at 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 31.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href="https://www.bangordailynews.com/2013/05/26/news/elephants-in-maine-find-a-home-in-hope/" class="wp-embed-more" target="_top">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Elephants in Maine find a home in Hope</span></a>

US diplomats and family members slowly begin to return to the Mideast embassies

WASHINGTON (AP) — American diplomats and at least some of their family members are beginning to return to U.S. embassies in the Middle East after many were ordered to leave their posts during the early days of the war with Iran. Although most embassies are not returning to full strength immediately, starting this week the [&hellip;]

Ten things you’ll see different at UMaine this fall

ORONO — Students returning to UMaine this fall will find a campus that looks — and in many places functions — noticeably different than it did when they left in May. New research and education facilities are open. Major athletics construction is taking shape. More parking spaces have been added, and new sidewalks, roads, landscaping [&hellip;]

Kentucky woman indicted on charges she damaged the World War II Memorial in Washington

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Kentucky woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that she intentionally damaged The World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Melissa Farris is scheduled to be arraigned next week on two felony counts. Grand jurors indicted her Thursday on charges of destroying the [&hellip;]