February 19, 2026
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...
When was the last time in modern history that a college student felt any sense of guilt for snatching utensils from a dining hall? Like, maybe never. So now that the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor has decided to ban plastic in the student dining halls, it has a f…
When your city has a “sustainability director” on the payroll, you can only guess what comes next. How about a ban on gas leaf blowers? In this case, it was South Portland, Maine, where a taxpayer backlash to the proposal finally killed it. In the face of widespread…
A Canadian family that was planning its annual foray to the Maine Moxie Festival is canceling, blaming President Trump. Conrad Gregoire of Kanata, Ontario, said his family of 12 is sick and tired of Trump calling Canada the 51st state. Loyal Maine defenders had a quick …
The privileged son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow came to Maine to blame cable news, Facebook and X for ruining journalism. The question is whether Ronan Farrow, who spewed his charges during an appearance at Bowdoin College, spares any media outlet from his diatribe. Fa…
The popular old David Letterman gag “Will It Sink or Will It Float?” could use an abandoned Arrowsic boat as a case study. The derelict vessel in this case ain’t floating – it’s up to its gunwales in frigid, icy sea water. In fact, it’s not only sunken, but …
University of Southern Maine wants to make sure that new students are comfortable in their space or else it might just lose enrollment. (After all how can you really achieve academic excellence if you are not comfortable in your space?) So school officials are trying to…
If you thought it couldn’t get any more insane at the Portland Press Herald, consider this: the publisher canceled the e-editions due to an impending snowstorm. Quick question – since when did snowy roads prevent the internet from being in business? Quick answer –…
A York woman has proven that even liberals sometimes have a sense of humor. Wendy Werner just became a finalist in the weekly New Yorker magazine’s cartoon-caption contest. What? The New Yorker has a sense of humor? Allegedly. At least when it comes to poking fun at t…
Hedge fund tycoon S. Donald Sussman – who once took an ownership stake in the ailing Portland Press Herald – wants government approval to put a seawall up along the shore of his $2.5 million Deer Isle estate. Sussman, 78, one of the two ex-husbands of Maine First Di…
Two people are dead after a tractor-trailer crashed through a median and hit two vehicles on the Maine Turnpike in Ogunquit early on Thursday. Xiaoying Ma, 35, of New York City was driving a tractor-trailer north on Interstate 95, near mile marker 14, at about 6:05 a.m.…
Just when you thought all hope for real-time media watchdogging was lost comes a blog devoted to Portland Press Herald shenanigans. The newly unveiled Reddit social-media site features all things screwy at the Maine Trust for Local Snooze. https://www.reddit.com/r/Portl…
A shortage of regional emergency dispatchers has triggered a personnel crisis for coordination first responders in at least one county along Maine’s midcoast region. It’s gotten so bad that some deputy sheriffs are being forced off the road to instead sit behind the…
If you think it’s hard running Maine’s biggest embattled newspaper chain, try doing it while you’re also flipping two eggs over easy with an order of toast. That’s the plight of Stefanie Manning, who took over just weeks ago as the top manager of the Portland Pr…
Fifty years ago, the freshman town manager of Old Orchard Beach angered a state official over the way he was managing a government handout of job-creation money. When a reporter quizzed Jerome Plante about the controversy he wasn’t just mad. He was hurt. How dare you?…
Southern Maine residents tired of getting woken up by trash haulers clanking dumpsters may finally get some sleep soon, at least in one town. A new noise law on the Feb. 11 Kennebunk town-meeting ballot would forbid emptying trash bins during the night. The noise ordina…
A Maine man who wanted to be buried in the town cemetery but was told there was no more room figured there was only one option – buy the damn thing. But Lawrence Butler had no idea what kind of a backlash he would face in the town of Thomaston when he tried to –
A well-connected New England media analyst says he’s “heard from serious people that substantial cuts may be coming” to the company running Maine’s biggest newspaper chain. Dan Kennedy, who teaches journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, is self-admitte…
A wealthy Maine philanthropist who quietly used his access and money to promote social good is being remembered by the region’s largest transportation museum. James S. Rockefeller Jr., 99, who founded the Owls Head Transportation Museum 50 years ago, died recently at …
The Portland International Jetport has been ordered to stop cutting trees near the runways until authorities can determine whether the project went too far. Neighbors sounded their vehement opposition to the tree-cutting before city councilors, arguing that the airport …
The Maine Trust for Local News, already reeling from a string of executive resignations, is now losing the publisher of one of its largest papers. Jody Jalbert, publisher of the Lewiston Sun Journal and the Maine Trust for Local News Community News Division, said she is…