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If you want to flip the Senate, you should be voting for Janet Mills | Opinion

by Ben Pearson April 15, 2026April 21, 2026

We must not squander this chance to oust Sen. Susan Collins by voting for an inexperienced candidate with tons of baggage.

Arts & Entertainment, Leslie Bridgers, Life & Culture, Maine

More Mainers are learning to play mahjong, many from Melanie | Column

by Leslie Bridgers April 15, 2026April 18, 2026

Hoping to play more while she’s here, a part-time Peaks Island resident started teaching the game. People want in.

Business, News

A lobster turf war is brewing in coastal Maine

by Penelope Overton April 15, 2026April 15, 2026

A battle between a local co-op and a seafood conglomerate in Spruce Head has escalated from permit disputes to a floating blockade, testing the limits of the working waterfront.

Community

5 takeaways on Augusta’s $97M budget proposal

by Ethan Horton April 15, 2026April 15, 2026

If approved as-is, the budget could increase property tax levies by about 20%.

Letters to the Editor

If Trump wants us to pay for war, he should ask us | Letter

April 15, 2026April 14, 2026

We are now entering the second month of Donald Trump’s fraught war of choice and we still have no better idea why we have entered it than when we started. In his meandering speech to the American public April 1, he ping-ponged through a menu of contradictory goals, from “we have already won” to “we […]

Letters to the Editor

Let’s keep hope alive in Maine | Letter

April 15, 2026April 14, 2026

In the face of our current administration’s daily chaotic, abusive, immoral and inhumane declarations, it is only human to defend oneself by retreating into a kind of numbness. This response is, in fact, a survival instinct — essential to our ability to keep on going. Yet even in this state, I believe we can still […]