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Maine Sports Commission announces retirement of strategic director
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (217+ words) Board will search for new strategic director The Maine Sports Commission, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing, elevating and promoting Maine as a four-season sports destination, announced that Strategic Director Sheila Brennan Nee has announced her intentions to retire at…...
GPS tags mapped 17 woodcock crossings over the Gulf of Maine and revealed three invisible routes, with four flights reaching future turbine-blade height even though more than 88% of the birds would miss the wind sites entirely
13+ hour, 3+ min ago (632+ words) The sky above the Gulf of Maine gets busy in autumn. Dozens of American woodcocks that spend the warmer months feeding in the north migrate to the southern and southeastern regions for winter. Avian researchers fitted some of these birds…...
Measles detected in wastewater sample from Bangor
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (195+ words) The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said a wastewater sample collected in Bangor on Aug. 13 tested positive for measles. A subsequent sample a few days later tested negative. But Sara Robinson, an epidemiologist with the agency, said the…...
The largest bear harvested in Maine was 700 pounds. I asked the guide how they did it.
22+ hour, 58+ min ago (520+ words) OutdoorsThe BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild places of Maine. It features stories on hunting, fishing, wildlife, conservation and recreation, told by people who live these experiences. This section emphasizes hands-on knowledge, field reports, issues,…...
Virginia restored 12,000 acres of seagrass. Can Maine also stem the decline?
15+ hour, 57+ min ago (649+ words) Maine’s seagrass meadows are shrinking and thinning. And this isn’t the only place where seagrass is declining. These underwater meadows off Maine’s coast are part of a global, decades-long pattern of loss believed to be driven by development and human…...
Erratic driver arrested in Bangor - Newport Dispatch
19+ hour, 32+ min ago (200+ words) BANGOR, ME — More than a dozen 911 calls led state police to an erratic driver on Interstate 95 on Wednesday. The Bangor Regional Communications Center received 14 calls at approximately 5:32 p.m. reporting a box truck driving erratically on I-95 southbound in Old Town....
Internationally acclaimed dancer Zoe Jakes to perform and teach in Midcoast Maine
21+ hour, 2+ min ago (372+ words) In a rare appearance, one of the world’s top fusion belly dancers is coming to Belfast and Brooks for workshops, a performance intensive, one-night-only show BELFAST — You’ve never seen belly dance like this before! Internationally acclaimed fusion belly dancer Zoe…...
Aquaculture & Maine Marine Living Resources
23+ hour, 21+ min ago (459+ words) WRITTEN BY JULIA BAYLY While hiking or driving alongside the New Meadows River in Brunswick, you might miss the active farming operation just beneath the tidal waters at the end of Casco Bay. But if you look closely, you will…...
Inside the race to save Maine's old growth forests
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (107+ words) Maine is the most heavily forested state in the country. And so-called old growth forests there are home to some of the rarest wooded landscapes that provide habitat for unique species and trap... Maine is the most heavily forested state…...
August ‘radio hour’ explores how Maine jails treat addiction
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (392+ words) In this month's episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour, Maine Monitor health care reporter Emily Bader spoke with editor Kate Cough about Bader's recent project on treating addiction in Maine's jails... In this month's episode of The Maine Monitor…...