Bangor ethics board member and City Council candidate wants to reduce fiscal waste

Why I stand on the corner holding a sign

“There are many who are appalled by what Republicans are doing to our country, but it will take real courage for them to vote against their own party to stop it.”

Trial to begin this week for man accused in 1984 killing of Calais teen

Raymond Brown, 67, was charged with murder last year in the death of 18-year-old Linda Maxwell.

Houlton council candidate wants to move town past recovery to growth

Fred Grant was appointed last November to fill a vacancy and is now seeking election to a full two-year term.

How can the fishing be so good if the salmon are in trouble?

"That is where the salmon paradox comes in. Good fishing in a productive stretch of river does not necessarily mean the overall salmon population is healthy."

Head Start preschools serve parents, too. Under Trump, advocates fear that will change

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cassie Reed and her two young children had just moved from a domestic violence shelter into a third-floor apartment in Spokane, Washington, when she spotted a soon-to-open Head Start preschool on the building’s ground floor. Much of Reed’s first three decades of life had been shaped by abuse and neglect: first, she […]