Maine pilot program aims to improve inclusive education

A five-year pilot program in Maine aims to ensure special education students are no longer segregated from their peers. Research shows inclusive classrooms boost student attendance rates, family engagement and postsecondary success. Kate MacLeod,...

New ‘Spot’ Opening In Downtown Bangor Featuring Ice Cream, Snacks And Maine Made Products

They had me at ice cream. But then they locked in when I learned they had a vintage Slush Puppy machine! If you hadn't noticed yet, there's a new little 'spot' to grab a snack, a frozen treat, and some cool locally made products while you're...

The Number of Millionaires in Maine Might Surprise You

While it’s fun to guesstimate and speculate, a recent report gives us a clear picture of just how many millionaires call Maine home. They always say that your first million is the hardest to reach, and for those who achieve it, it’s a huge...

A Pomologist’s 50-Year Mission to Revive Maine’s Heritage-Apple Varieties Is Bearing Fruit

A couple of years ago, one of the rarest apple trees in North America was discovered in Ron and Jeanne Russell’s Verona Island backyard. Perched crookedly on a hill overlooking the Penobscot River, the Drap D’Or de Bretagne, or Golden Cloth of...

Family sells 200-acre farm to open convenience store in Aroostook

Sarah Leavitt and Bill Witham opened Skyway Variety on Parson Street in Presque Isle earlier this month. With them are two of their six children, Bodhi (left) and Athena. (Paula Brewer | The County) When they came to Aroostook County to look at...

PODCAST: CT lobstermen reflect on the industry’s glory days

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Create more of it with a tax-deductible donation today. Connecticut once had a booming lobster business. What happened? WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with CT Mirror’s Dana Edwards...

Climbing to New Heights: a Maine Bound feature

By Joe Lazaro on October 6, 2025 If you have a love of the outdoors or rockclimbing, you have to give Maine Bound Adventure Center a try. Maine Bound Adventure Center is the University of Maine’s comprehensive outdoor program. They provide rental...

INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Scientific Evidence Of Gerrymandering

Texas conducted an unusual mid-decade redrawing of Congressional districts for the state. California responded in kind with a ballot measure to temporarily suspend their independent-commission-drawn districts. The debate over how the people are to...

Inside the talks that led a contaminated Maine compost plant to be shut down

Tests that confirmed Maine’s largest composting plant had contaminated wetlands more than 2 miles away with “forever chemicals” shined a light on the broad extent of its pollution and likely hastened its closure. Casella Waste Management, the...

Maine’s Food Pantries Struggle with Volunteer Shortage

By ELAINE APPLETON GRANT The Maine Monitor WINTERPORT, Maine (AP) — Phylis Allen spends her days looking for things. She searches for potatoes at Sam’s Club, cheap beets and ginger at Walmart and a local grocery store. She studies the weekly...

40 Under 40: Christina Consigli builds opportunities for Maine through teamwork

Greatest achievement: Personally, there is no greater achievement than my two girls. They’re my greatest gifts and it’s the honor of my life to get to watch them grow and experience the world. Professionally, as a builder, completing a complex and...

Maine High Schoolers Explore Navy STEM Careers via VR Simulations

In a quiet corner of Maine, high school students are stepping into the future of military recruitment and education, donning virtual reality headsets to explore careers in the U.S. Navy. At Sanford High School, a recent event transformed a typical...

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

On Tuesday, a Christian legal group will urge the US supreme court to overturn a ban on anti-LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” in a case that could erode protections for transgender and queer youth across the country. Lawyers from Alliance Defending...

Maine's longer, hotter summers are reshaping our natural world

When she looks at the Narraguagus River, Valerie Ouellet sees what others can't: a thermal mosaic that explains why it's one of the last places in America where wild Atlantic salmon come to spawn. This 55-mile-long waterway in Downeast Maine is a...

Maine’s rural nursing crisis prompts new Down East program

Five years after the onset of the pandemic, the only hospital that still delivers babies in Washington County continues to rely on travel nurses to fill its staffing gaps. The nursing shortage has eased a little since 2020, but the situation is...

Energy Department cancels $110 million in funding for Massachusetts EV battery company

A Massachusetts company has been using federal funds to build a manufacturing facility in Kentucky to produce critical minerals needed for lithium-ion batteries, enough to equip 250,000 electric vehicles each year. The company, Ascend Elements,...

Second Salem: The Haunted History of Whitewater’s Spiritualist Past

You’ll find that many small towns have a local legend about something that goes bump in the night – a forlorn ghost, a vengeful witch, a hideous beast lurking in the woods. These spooky stories are thick on the ground in Whitewater, a college town...

Maine’s food pantries stare down volunteer shortage while anticipating cuts

WINTERPORT, Maine (AP) — Phylis Allen spends her days looking for things. She searches for potatoes at Sam’s Club, cheap beets and ginger at Walmart and a local grocery store. She studies the weekly inventory from Good Shepherd, Maine’s only food...

ESOP trends at a glance

Employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, have become a growing trend not only in Maine but nationwide as well. Here are some interesting facts and trends. Maine trends Some of Maine’s best-known names in construction and manufacturing are ESOPs,...

‘Oldest, poorest, sickest’: Inside Maine’s elderly gun suicide crisis

It’s a hard-hit region in a hard-hit state: More older Mainers died by gun suicide than they did in car crashes over that period. The overall gun suicide rate in Maine was 16 per 100,000. The numbers represent a troubling trend playing out in...