EPA Investigates Maine’s Faulty Electric School Buses Built by Canadian Company
The EPA visited a school in Winthrop, Maine later last month as part of an investigation into electric buses supplied to schools through federal grants. This probe comes after it is discovered that the bus built by a Canadian company has been proven to be incorrect. Federal agents visited schools in Maine in late January […]
Govs divulge what it was like in the room when Trump clashed with Maine’s state leader over trans athletes
The governor's collective goal “disagree” at a White House meeting with most American state leaders, which concludes public dust with President Donald Trump.[ing] The president of the National Governors' Association said on Saturday. Jared Police, a Colorado Democratic government official, challenged Trump to Maine to follow an executive order on transgender athletes in school sports, […]
Maine’s dunking basketball manager is college hoops’ new viral star after Duke display
Duke University men's basketball opens the 2024-25 season this week against the Maine Black Bears, named after stud freshman Cooper Flagg's home state. Flagg is poised to be a mainstay in college basketball this year, but there have already been plenty of other great moments in the first few days of the season, says Creighton's […]
Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ turns 104 with no plans to retire
Maine’s oldest lobster catcher just turned 104, but he has no plans to stop catching lobsters anytime soon. Virginia “Ginny” Oliver celebrated her latest big day surrounded by family in Rockland last Thursday, where she enjoyed her favorite chocolate cake and ice cream. WGME reports. Ginny, the protagonist in the children’s book The Lobster Lady, […]
Maine’s Oldest ‘Lobster Lady’ Turns 104, Refuses to Retire
Maine’s oldest active lobster catcher just turned 104, but after more than 90 years of catching crustaceans, he has no plans to retire just yet. Virginia Oliver is Catch a lobster She told a local CBS station that she was 8 years old when her father died in a boat off the coast of Rockland. […]
Bowling Alley Reopens Six Months After Maine’s Deadliest Mass Shooting By Former Army Reservist
In southwestern Maine, the state’s deadliest mass shooting occurred last October after a former Army reservist shot and killed 10 people at a nearby bar, leaving eight people dead, according to the Associated Press. bowling alleys reopened Friday. “We’re excited to open,” Samantha Juray, co-owner of Just in Time Recreation, a bowling alley in Lewiston, […]
Lewiston bowling alley to reopen after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting
The Jurays were faced with the difficult decision of whether to reopen their Maine bowling alley in the wake of last October’s mass shooting. In the end, the decision was made to reopen, and the venue was completely transformed. Maine Gov. Janet Mills is scheduled to speak at Friday’s reopening ceremony. Deciding whether to reopen […]
Top court upholds Maine’s Sunday hunting ban
Maine’s Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s long-standing ban on Sunday hunting is constitutional. The court considered a case asking whether a Sunday hunting ban on game animals such as deer, turkey and elk is still necessary. Maine is one of a growing number of states restricting hunting on Sundays. Maine rejects mandate to […]
‘They want to trans children so badly’: Maine’s ‘transgender trafficking bill’ likely to pass and trigger interstate battle
Democratic state Rep. Ann Perry’s LD 227, dubbed the “Transgender Trafficker Protection Act” by critics, would codify sex-reassignment mutilation and abortion rights in Maine and place sex-reassignment surgeons in serious danger. This is a radical bill that protects people from such influence. Authorities are prohibited from informing parents of abducted children’s whereabouts if they are […]
Maine’s Democrat governor wants gun control mental health wake of mass shooting
Maine’s governor introduced legislation Wednesday that would prevent dangerous people from possessing weapons and strengthen mental health services to prevent future tragedies like the Lewiston shooting that shook the state. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills called for the change in a January speech, three months after an Army Reserve soldier killed 18 people in the deadliest […]