Morning Links - Friday December 6, 2024

Friday, December 6, 2024

Arts

New owners bring Hollywood experience to Brunswick’s Eveningstar 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Buy Local

Merry Madness Shopping Crawl 🏛 Visit Portland

Thirty-fourth Annual Holiday Sale at Portland Pottery December 13 – 24th Offers Unique Gifts 🏛 Munjoy Hill News

City

Fitzpatrick Closed for Construction 🏛 Portland Public Schools

Climate Emergency

New rules for solar development make companies pay to put panels on certain farmland 🏛 Piscataquis Observer

Community

Joan Benoit Samuelson Featured at Portland Trails Holiday Dash Start on December 8th 🏛 Munjoy Hill News

Education

To improve teacher workforce, report says Maine needs better pathways 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Company that provided electric school buses to Maine schools could be in financial trouble #shorts - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Environment

Maine adopts rules to make companies pay for packaging waste 🏛 Maine Public

Maine environmental board advances program to improve package material recycling 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Maine Finalizes Nation-Leading EPR for Packaging Program 🏛 Natural Resources Council of Maine

Mainers Support EPR for Packaging 🏛 Natural Resources Council of Maine

Businesses will pay for packaging disposal under new state rules 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Spill from tanker crash on I-295 raises concern about environmental impact 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Maine adds 3 species to ‘special concern’ list 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Food and Drink

Sean Turley is building an apple identification task force, and it starts with you 🏛 The Fizz

Oxbow Brewing to buy Portland craft beer pioneer Rising Tide 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Counter-service Luncheonette coming to Cumberland Avenue 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Maine Food ＆ Dining News: Ellsworth, Brunswick, Damariscotta, Westbrook, Sanford, Biddeford, Windham, Bath 🏛 Portland Food Map

Waxwing Bakery opens Friday in Windham 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Health Care

How the incoming Trump administration could impact people covered under MaineCare 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Maine seeks developer for psychiatric residential treatment facility for youth 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Decades-long judicial oversight lifted for Maine's mental health systems 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

History

Throwback Thursday Photo: First Parish Church 1970 ＆ 2024 🏛 Portland Old Port

Housing

Maine nonprofit will renovate fixer-uppers, sell them as affordable housing 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Justice

Attorneys talk challenges, next steps at indigent defense symposium 🏛 The Maine Monitor

Texan gets 11 years in prison for attempting to sexually exploit Maine children 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Texas man who sexually exploited Maine children receives prison sentence - YouTube - WMTW-TV

Maine continues to see more online child exploitation cases - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Windham man pleads not guilty to role in deadly Morrill’s Corner attack 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Labor

With federal overtime rules blocked, Maine’s Minimum Salary Threshold set for 2025 🏛 The Windham Eagle

Maine State Chamber concerned over final Maine Paid Family ＆ Medical Leave program rules and tight implementation timeline 🏛 Daily Bulldog

Mainers will soon start paying into state's new paid family medical leave program - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Outdoors

Maine Audubon’s 41st Annual Loon Count Results Show Healthy Loon Population 🏛 Maine Audubon

Photography

5:51am 🏛 Reddit

Someone lose their turkey? 🏛 Reddit

Photo gallery: November in Harpswell 🏛 Harpswell Anchor

I’m running late… 🏛 Reddit

A Slice of Narnia (in Maine) 🏛 Reddit

Scenic Maine along the Coast - YouTube - Ellesmere

The Hannah Jo from above, Dock Square, Kennebunkport, Maine 🏛 Reddit

Police

Man found stabbed in Portland apartment 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Portland man critically injured in Munjoy Hill stabbing 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Man in critical condition after stabbing at Portland home - YouTube - WMTW-TV

Victim of Stabbing at Munjoy South Apts. in Critical Condition at Maine Medical Center 🏛 Munjoy Hill News

Portland man in critical condition after stabbing on Munjoy South 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Arrest Made in Marshall Street Homicide by Portland Police 🏛 Munjoy Hill News

Arrest Made in Death of Westbrook Homicide Victim Reports “MSP” 🏛 Munjoy Hill News

Politics

History shows why twice-a-year clock changes make sense 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Maine in top 10 as a record number of women to serve in state legislatures nationwide 🏛 Maine Beacon

Letter: Hoping for a Mills Senate run 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Susan Collins has ‘excellent meeting’ with Elon Musk that avoided talk of specific cuts 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Sen. Collins touts bill aimed at helping Mainers avoid trips to ER - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Letter: Susan Collins will need to speak up 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Letter: Collins needs to keep up scrutiny of nominees 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Opinion: Trump’s victory has given me the gift of time 🏛 Portland Press Herald

The Trump Memos: The ACLU's Response to a Second ... 🏛 ACLU of Maine

Letter: Maine Health makes a difference 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Letter: Rabbis’ outrage is misdirected 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Public Safety

Is there a needle clean up team for reporting needles in high volume areas in Portland downtown? I.e, pets and children likely around it. 🏛 Reddit

Social Safety Net

Advocates working to end child food insecurity in Maine preparing to defend federal welfare programs 🏛 Maine Public

State

Letter: Maine needs to do more to keep young people here 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Things to Do

Brantley Gilbert – The Tattoos Tour 2025 🏛 Visit Portland

Guster On The Ocean - State Theatre, Portland Maine 🏛 State Theatre

Guster On The Ocean - Portland 🏛 State Theatre

Behind the scenes of decorating the Victoria Mansion for the holiday 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Victorian Nutcracker in Sanford this Saturday 🏛 Sanford Springvale News

'Tis the season for holiday music shows all around Maine - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Unhoused

Opinion: Portland’s homelessness crisis is a shared responsibility 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Groundbreaking held for new multi-use homeless shelter in Lewiston - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Utilities

Gov. Mills to nominate brewery owner and former lawmaker for public advocate post 🏛 Maine Public

Gov. Mills nominates former Portland lawmaker to serve as public advocate 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Former lawmaker and brewery owner picked to be Maine’s ratepayer watchdog 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Heather Sanborn, former Portland lawmaker, nominated to be Maine’s next public advocate 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Gov. Mills nominates small business owner as new Public Advocate - YouTube - WMTW-TV

Governor Mills Announces Nomination of Former Lawmaker, Business Leader Heather Sanborn to Serve as Public Advocate 🏛 State of Maine