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Supreme Courtâs silence deepens fight for health freedom in Maine vaccine case
Natural News
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June 22, 2025
Supreme Court refuses to review Maine healthcare workers’ religious exemption case, denying them recourse after being fired for unvaccinated status. Courts increasingly dismiss challenges to vaccine mandates as “moot,” eroding religious freedom...
New Research: Childhood Vaccination Rates Drop Across 1,600 U.S. Counties
The Good Men Project - California
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June 23, 2025
By Amanda Geduld, The 74 This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. Childhood vaccination rates have markedly declined across the...
I used to trap bears for research. Now I do it for meat.
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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June 22, 2025
In the spring of 2010, I walked up to sedate my first bear in a trap in Down East Maine. It was a 130-pound female that lunged toward me and woofed. It was intimidating, but thrilling. Today, 15 years later, it’s still exciting to see a bear in...
With sunshine and batteries, Maine oyster growers are starting to electrify their operations
The Maine Monitor
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June 22, 2025
From a distance, what appears to be an old pontoon boat with a shade canopy was tugging at its mooring near an island in Casco Bay. Up close, the retrofitted pontoon is actually something quite new: An oyster-processing barge that operates without...
Rejecting Trump’s rhetoric, Maine’s governor heads to Maritimes to build ties
CityNews Halifax
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June 21, 2025
HALIFAX — Maine’s governor is heading to the Maritimes next week with hopes a charm offensive will slow the rapid drop in Canadian tourist visits to her state. In a release issued Friday, Janet Mills says she’s aware the historically close...
UMass climate scientists reeling as Trump administration slashes funding for research
Daily Hampshire Gazette - Massachusetts
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June 20, 2025
AMHERST — Graduate student Josie Pilchik’s career plans dissolved with just one email. As a UMass PhD student in the United States Geological Survey’s S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Laboratory in Turner Falls, Pilchik had spent the better...
Paper mills in Maine and across the U.S. releasing more greenhouse gases than federal data shows
The Maine Monitor
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June 21, 2025
Two of Maine’s largest paper mills are among the dirtiest in the country, according to a new study on U.S. pulp and paper plants, putting their emissions on par with some oil refineries. The May report from the Environmental Integrity Project, a...
Conditions are perfect in the Maine woods for moose-killing ticks
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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June 21, 2025
Brandon Bishop remembers vividly the first time he saw a dead moose infested with thousands of ticks. The registered Maine Guide was snowmobiling in the north woods in 2012 and within a week found a dozen carcasses, mostly of calves, lying in the...
Jackson Lab researchers take part in ‘Longest Day’ fundraiser
WABI - Maine
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June 20, 2025
BAR HARBOR, Maine (WABI) - June 20th is the summer solstice, which means that it’s the day with most daylight of the entire calendar year. The Alzheimer’s Association uses the day to raise money and awareness, and members of the Jackson Lab in Bar...
Soil Tests to Begin Next Week for the Broome Technology Park
FOX 40 - New York
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The Broome County Industrial Development Agency is laying the groundwork for the proposed 500 acre Broome Technology Park by conducting geo-technical tests early next week. Stacey Duncan, the Executive Director of the Agency, said the tests will...
Bill Belichick’s GF Jordon Hudson Considers Major North Carolina Movement After Doing the Same For Maine Community
Essentially Sports
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June 20, 2025
When Bill Belichick moved his life to Chapel for a new chapter at North Carolina, his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, also came along for support. She left behind Maine to stay with the veteran coach, who is gearing up for his much-talked-about debut...
Photos: Juneteenth reflections, bees and commencement in Portland, Maine
Northeastern Global News - Massachusetts
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June 20, 2025
A member of the Northeastern community studies outside on the terrace of the EXP research complex on the Boston campus. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Summer is officially here, and campus life is buzzing. This week’s photos show...
Parole offers an opportunity for a more just Maine
Bangor Daily News - Maine
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June 21, 2025
The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Peter Ryan is a rising junior at Colby College majoring in government...
Rep. Runte: Working to make Maine’s electricity affordable, reliableRep. Gerry Runte
Seacoastonline - New Hampshire
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Rep. Gerry Runte I am honored to represent House District 146, which includes the western half of York, and an eastern part of Wells and Ogunquit. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Technology (EUT), as I was in the...
This Sign at a Popular Sanford, Maine, Restaurant Shocked Me
94.9 WHOM - Maine
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June 20, 2025
I had heard so much about Lord's Clam Box in Sanford, Maine, and went for the first time and was stunned to see this sign in their restaurant. I was excited to meet my friends at Lord's. I had never been, but I was in the mood for full belly...
Did You Know The University of Maine Has a Lobster Institute?
92 Moose - Maine
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June 19, 2025
How in the heck did I not know there was a freakin' Lobster Institute in Maine? I mean seriously, lobsters deserve an education, too! Okay, that's not exactly what the Lobster Institute is. It's not a place where lobsters go to learn, though that...
Huawei Patents Solid-State Battery That Would Let You Road Trip From Miami To Maine On A Single Charge
Jalopnik
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June 20, 2025
Toyota is currently working on solid-state batteries it says will allow it to build 900-mile EVs, but while many would call that overkill, dads across the country know it isn't enough. We need more range if EVs are ever going to be good enough for...
Got to To Solve the Mallard's Mysterious Decline, Researchers Turn to Hi-Tech Trackers article
Audubon
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Mallards seem to be everywhere. They gather in parks and ponds, forage in farm fields, and even nest in urban planter boxes. This flexibility has helped make Mallards the most common ducks in North America. And yet, while waterfowl populations...
Grandchild of J.I. resident and former AOL president Ray Oglethorpe wins big in prestigious international science fair
Vero News
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June 19, 2025
Web Webster, a grandchild of John’s Island resident and former AOL president Ray Oglethorpe, has racked up a long list of impressive achievements, including recently placing second in the environmental category in the biggest and most prestigious...
What’s Cooking in Maine? Just the State’s #1 Pizza Choice!
I-95 - Maine
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June 20, 2025
Not to worry, no pineapple is involved! Whether it is thin crust, Chicago-style, deep dish, or anything in between, pizza is an American favorite. America's favorite pizza has been revealed, state-by-state. Here in the 207, we are pretty spoiled...