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Maine sues Trump administration over canceled $9M NOAA grant

Maine sues Trump administration over canceled $9M NOAA grant

Maine is suing the Trump administration again. This time for pulling $9 million in grant funding through NOAA. The grant was awarded to the state in 2024 for a project in Addison, designed to prevent flooding and restore tidal flow to a salt marsh...

Maine Democrats Silencing Lawmaker Censured Over Anti-Transgender Posting

Maine Democrats Silencing Lawmaker Censured Over Anti-Transgender Posting

Maine Democrats are blocking a Republican lawmaker from speaking on the state house of representatives floor due to a censure over posting the name and photo of a transgender athlete on social media. The speaker of the Maine house stripped Laurel...

Olympic swimmer Cody Miller will host an elite clinic in Waterville

Olympic swimmer Cody Miller will host an elite clinic in Waterville

A two-day swim clinic will be held at the Alfond Youth & Community Center on July 11 and 12. WATERVILLE, Maine — Olympic medalist Cody Miller will lead a two-day swim clinic and meet at the Alfond Youth & Community Center (AYCC) on July 11 and 12,...

Maine sues for reinstatement of NOAA grant

Maine sues for reinstatement of NOAA grant

The state of Maine has sued the Trump administration over cancellation of a $9 million NOAA grant to restore tidal salt marsh habitat and protect coastal infrastructure from flooding. A complaint before the U.S. District Court for the District of...

Chamber music fills the air at Fivesparks’ eighth annual music festival

Fivesparks hosted its eighth annual Chamber Music Festival between Sunday, June 15, and Saturday, June 21, with events held in various venues around town. Instrumental groups of graduate students or recent graduates who intend to make a career in...

A bill to make Maine a sanctuary state is on Gov. Mills’ desk

A bill to make Maine a sanctuary state is on Gov. Mills’ desk

By Rep. Chad Perkins, R-Dover-Foxcroft This is Rep. By Rep. Chad Perkins, R-Dover-Foxcroft This is Rep. Chad Perkins of Dover-Foxcroft with the Weekly Republican Address. LD 1971, titled “An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the...

Outdoor branding program to highlight Maine-made gear

Outdoor branding program to highlight Maine-made gear

Maine Outdoor Brands and Maine outdoor retailers have launched a branding program that looks to highlight Maine-made outdoor gear and apparel. The statewide MOB Shop initiative aims to pull together displays of outdoor gear and apparel companies...

Brigitte Knowles, celebrated architect, professor emerita, and retired senior associate dean at Temple, has died at 82

Brigitte Knowles, celebrated architect, professor emerita, and retired senior associate dean at Temple, has died at 82

Brigitte Knowles, 82, of Philadelphia, celebrated architect, innovative professor emerita and former chair of the Department of Architecture and Environmental Design at Temple University, and retired senior associate dean of Temple’s Tyler School...

Rhythm and blues at Cotati Music Festival

Rhythm and blues at Cotati Music Festival

The heart and soul of Cotati brought rhythm and blues to the town during their annual Cotati Music Festival presented by the Cotati Chamber of Commerce. In La Plaza Park from 12 p.m. to around 6 p.m. on Saturday the 21st, locals and tourists laid...

Maine Mendoza recounts ‘Eat Bulaga’ audition: ‘A gift I’ll forever be thankful for’

Maine Mendoza recounts ‘Eat Bulaga’ audition: ‘A gift I’ll forever be thankful for’

Maine Mendoza. Image: Instagram/@mainedcm Maine Mendoza celebrated the 10th anniversary of her audition to the longest-running noontime show “Eat Bulaga,” saying she wouldn’t have the life she has now if it weren’t for that opportunity. Through...

West Virginia AG Pushes Supreme Court to Review Transgender Sports Ban

West Virginia AG Pushes Supreme Court to Review Transgender Sports Ban

West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the state’s ongoing legal battle over its ban on transgender girls and women participating in female sports. In a new filing submitted Tuesday, McCuskey’s...

‘Dark Shadows’ Debuted in 1966: A TV Flashback

‘Dark Shadows’ Debuted in 1966: A TV Flashback

Dark Shadows, poster, Jonathan Frid, 1966-. (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)LMPC via Getty Images Dark Shadows took a “bite," so to speak, out of the network daytime drama landscape. And it was the beginning of a franchise that has returned...

Why the Maine woods sometimes sound like a horror movie

Why the Maine woods sometimes sound like a horror movie

This story was originally published in January 2023. The first night in her new rural Maine home, shrill screams woke Lindsey Abbott from a sound sleep. She’d just moved from Portland to a 10-acre homestead in Durham and found herself seriously...

Surfing the Pine Tree State’s Online Casino Wave by Looking at the Trends and Market Buzz in Maine

Surfing the Pine Tree State’s Online Casino Wave by Looking at the Trends and Market Buzz in Maine

This content was produced in partnership with Bazoom Group. From tribal legislation to smartphone gaming, the online casino scene in Maine is heating up. Let’s dive into something that’s been quietly brewing under the radar, the move toward online...

North Country NCAA Division I commits tap in on how they made it to highest level of college sports

North Country NCAA Division I commits tap in on how they made it to highest level of college sports

Several of North Country’s best athletes earned NCAA Division I scholarships, but each of them took different routes to reach their lifelong dream. Most of those athletes stayed at their hometown school to play college sports at the highest level....

Sixty-Six University of Southern Maine Student-Athletes Named to 2025 Spring Sport Little East Conference All-Academic Team

Sixty-Six University of Southern Maine Student-Athletes Named to 2025 Spring Sport Little East Conference All-Academic Team

Via University of Southern Maine, 6h ago GORHAM, Maine – Sixty-six University of Southern Maine student-athletes were announced as part of the 2025 Little East Conference All-Academic Team for spring sports. Students from all four of Southern...

California in Violation of Title IX: Allowing Transgenders to Compete in Girls Sport

California in Violation of Title IX: Allowing Transgenders to Compete in Girls Sport

The Trump administration has warned California that it risks losing federal school funds unless it reverses its decision to allow transgender athletes to participate in girls’ sports, citing the state’s violation of Title IX. According to federal...

Maine Finally Gets A Perfect Saturday-But Humid Days Are Coming!

Maine Finally Gets A Perfect Saturday-But Humid Days Are Coming!

The wait is over! Summer officially arrives tonight, at 10:42pm. That doesn't help much for Friday, but tomorrow, everything we have been waiting for on a Saturday, finally happens. By our count, the last 13 Saturdays have either been filled with...

Special Guest Coach Inspires Campers at Tiger Basketball Camp

Special Guest Coach Inspires Campers at Tiger Basketball Camp

FORT FAIRFIELD, Maine (WAGM) -A special guest at the Tiger Basketball Camp at Fort Fairfield High School Tuesday. Campers had the opportunity to learn from a former Division 1 player at IONA College. Beau Thompson, a camper says “he really wants...

Regional sports complex to break ground end of fall 2025

Regional sports complex to break ground end of fall 2025

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – Two years ago, Rochester voted on a sales tax renewal that would help fund a new regional sports complex. The goal was for the facility to serve two different purposes: to run events and bring people to Rochester; and to...

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