December 19, 2025
Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for…
A midcoast Maine city that went from raucous motorcycle gangs to boutique coffee houses has now once again flipped the scales. The Rockland police chief is calling for portable concrete “Jersey barriers” for public protection at outdoor community events. In parti…
The Maine state GOP lawmaker who got officially silenced by Democrats for defending girls’ high-school sports is now fighting her own party’s attempts to clamp down on chickens, she said on Thursday. “A fellow Mainer just alerted me to LD 1655, a bill that would r…
The Maine native who made a cottage industry out of poking fun at downeasters is about to have the last laugh – on us. Now 74, humorist legend Tim Sample is preparing to step from the stage for good, with his final performance set for June. Sample, who, yes, was actua…
A reclusive Swiss liberal billionaire whose cash helped buy Maine’s largest paper is now being targeted by several states over his alleged foreign financial influence on their elections. The secretive Hansjorg Wyss created “dark money” nonprofits, seemingly to ski…
The attempt by an out-of-state dreamer to start a new version of Maine’s once-popular liberal weekly has apparently gone up in smoke. “This fundraiser is no longer accepting donations,” David Lide announced on his GoFundMe campaign page. Lide had tried to relaunch…
The “non-profit” group running Maine’s largest newspaper is refusing to disclose the salary of the new CEO, amid executive-compensation issues that have nagged at the company. The National Trust for Local News announced it’s hired a new CEO to replace the former…
A group of renegades from Maine’s upper reaches tired of liberal Gov. Janet Mills (D) are forming their own faction to split from the southern realms of the state and form their own with the name “North Maine.” But as serious as they seem to be, they’re up again…
When anti-Trump Maine businesses called a news conference recently to lobby against the administration’s proposed and imposed tariffs, the fawning legacy media couldn’t set up their cameras and mics quickly enough. Predictably, the news coverage was one-sided, as so…
A new “Maine” paper claiming the name of an oldie but a goodie has announced its creation – as a Delaware corporation. The who, what, why, when and where behind the revived Maine Times and its stated mission of “high-impact journalism” from Delaware is a defin…
When Joe Biden’s would-be successor’s campaign was tanking, the now-retiree came up with a plan he thought would help rescue it – a pickleball call to arms in northern New England. “No joke” Joe couldn’t scrape up enough wrinkled Democrat retirees from the p…
Nearly two years after the mast of an historic excursion vessel splintered and fell onto the deck, killing a woman aboard the schooner Grace Bailey off the Maine coast, the chastened Coast Guard claims to have no clue how it happened. The guard, distracted by bureaucrat…
The liberal political preferences of a Portland Press Herald writer later credited with Angus King’s political fortunes have finally been acknowledged. But Democrat Dennis Bailey, according to veteran Maine political analyst Al Diamon, has now been relegated to writin…
A female surgeon who proudly helped shatter the military glass ceiling did so while surreptitiously closeting gay women such as herself. But that concealed part of the Owls Head physician’s life is conveniently missing from a whitewashed new Smithsonian magazine takeo…
If Maine’s largest newspaper company had previously tried to mask its Democrat leanings, it has now dropped all semblance of balance. Steve Collins, who has been a statehouse reporter, announced he’s now wearing a new title – political columnist. “Since I’ll b…
A state senator apparently forgot to stop, look and listen before trying to name a Maine railroad crossing for a Florida tourist with no local ties. Locals in the picturesque coastal village of Wiscasset can’t figure out what Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, was thinki…
Plot : Star of “The Blair Witch Project” retires from acting, moves to small town in Maine, gets elected to municipal governing board. Fact or fiction? Fact. A year later, Heather Donahue faces ouster from town office after allegedly vandalizing private property. Tr…
The question now isn’t whether President Trump will ever invite the country’s top judge to his Mar-A-Lago hideout for a round of golf. Now it’s whether the chief U.S. Supreme Court justice will ever invite the president to his Maine vacation home for a round of lo…
A midcoast Maine homeowner who was annoyed his neighbor’s trees were ruining his harbor view may have found a solution – pesticide. State officials suspect a Rockport man drilled holes in the trees outside Ruth Graham’s $2.8 million Mechanic Street house and injec…
The third rail of life in summertime Maine – competition for limited beach parking – is heating up in one of the state’s southernmost coastal towns. Wells town officials are actually considering reducing the numbers of beach permits taxpayers can get to park in th…
The appearance of Maine’s top lobstering official at New England’s largest fishing convention has gone largely unnoticed for 49 years – until this year. When the Maine Fishermen’s Forum celebrates its jubilee 50th year as the northeast’s biggest fishing gather…