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Related development: former Harbor Commission chairman reveals FBI investigated previous city administration. University of New England’s president has sued Biddeford city officials after failing to resolve a bitter zoning fight with them, raising the stakes to a new level of confrontation. James Herbert claims he had no other option to persuade the city to stop allegedly crippling the school’s expansion plans. The college and city have been mired in a fight over whether the school will be allowed to build a research pier in the Saco River. The project received the green light from a coastal regulatory board but city…

Two huge wins Tuesday in Texas elections for President Trump – including defeating John Cornyn by nearly 30 points. Ken Paxton’s victory over Cornyn in the Republican U.S. Senate runoff wasn’t just a defeat for the incumbent senator. It was a complete blowout – 64 percent for the Trump favorite, attorney general Paxton, to 38 percent for the four-term loser, Cornyn. Trump last week endorsed Paxton, whose victory showcased the president’s power over his party as he seeks to punish Republicans he sees as insufficiently loyal. Cornyn has actually been a Trump loyalist, helping him win cabinet nominees and three…

A popular longtime downtown Biddeford speakeasy that recently trimmed its menu is shutting its doors. The first inkling of Mulligans closing first broke on BiddefordBuzz.com, which confirmed the rumor shortly after its initial speculative report. The Lincoln Street restaurant/bar shut down its kitchen six months ago in what patrons predicted was the beginning of the end. The establishment that calls itself a “classic American restaurant” has been in business nearly 30 years. “We did everything we could to keep it going,” manager Jake DeLois, son of owner Joe DeLois, told the Biddeford Gazette. “But there were so many things working…

In the wake of an attack on him by Democrat Hannah Pingree, the GOP’s Bobby Charles is challenging her to a debate. “If you and Janet Mills can take a break from your Trump bashing, I’ll debate you, 2 on 1, any day of the week,” Charles told Pingree on Monday. Pingree over the weekend had gone after Charles, shown by polls to be leading the GOP gubernatorial field. “This guy’s bigotry has no place in Maine politics,” she had said. “I’m sick of it and will wipe the floor with him in November if he makes it out of…

Graham Platner is now taking incoming from his own party, including a congressman saying he’s disqualified due to his skin ink. In an interview with CNN on Monday, U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Massachusetts, said he finds Platner’s now-famous “Nazi” tattoo a race-ender. “I find that tattoo and his commentary about it to be personally disqualifying,” Auchincloss said. “I hope Maine voters agree with me.” The controversy stems from Platner’s chest tattoo of a Nazi SS “Totenkopf” symbol. He has denied knowingly displaying Nazi imagery, saying he got the tattoo with fellow Marines during a trip to Croatia in 2007 and…

The child-porn convicted former Maine candidate for governor said in court Friday he’s been hooked on porn since he was 12 years old. That’s the second time now amid his criminal misfortunes that Eliot Cutler embraced a timeline that had him addicted to child pornography well he was a Maine gubernatorial candidate in 2010 and in 2014. Cutler ended up losing both elections, almost becoming governor the first time. Wearing a gray prison jumpsuit, he was in court Friday seeking to be released from jail on probation on his fifth such alleged violation of freedom in the wake of his…

Mazy, as she’s now called, fell from a 10-story apartment building. She’s now, like, “what’s the big fuss?” Mazy broke both her legs and is being fixed up in a specialty animal hospital. Officials at MSPCA-Angell hospital say Mazy is doing great following a successful surgery to fix the damage to her front legs, WBZ Radio reports. Mazy arrived at Angell Animal Medical Center after her fall from grace. While her typical-cat ego was merely bruised her physical injuries needed surgical intervention. An X-ray confirmed that both of Mazy’s front legs were broken and she had a collapsed lung. While…

Two peas in a pod, as they say. In one corner, U.S. Senate Democrat candidate Graham Platner, who once said some women invite rape. In the same corner, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, who once publicly fantasized about rape. Platner invited Sanders on Sunday to headline a political rally for him in Bangor. “On our way to Bangor, Maine for a rally with @grahamformaine,” Bernie posted on X with a picture of him standing on the side of the road in New Hampshire entering Gilead, Maine in Oxford County. “The crises facing our country are too serious for establishment politics…

The state’s leading northern-Maine paper’s annual report shows an anemic following – far behind The Maine Wire – despite an advantage in legacy and workforce size. Graham Pollard, who is The Maine Wire’s digital media editor, compared Bangor Daily News’ readership to the Wire’s. Pollard’s source for Bangor’s following comes from its so-called 2025-2026 “Impact Report,” published by Bangor CEO and President Jennifer Holmes. “This is the report they send to donors and potential donors to try to sell themselves as to why you should give the Bangor Daily News your hard-earned money,” Pollard said. He quoted Holmes from the…

Biddeford city councilors are refusing to spend taxpayer money to help fund La Kermesse, a popular annual festival celebrating Franco-American culture. The council in York County’s largest city pulled funding for it in the annual $51 million city budget, according to Saco Bay News. La Kermesse Treasurer Paul Gagne asked the council to reconsider funding the organization. Gagne said after money was embezzled from La Kermesse in 2010, it took 15 years to get paid back the lost money. “After 2010, it’s been one year at a time,” he said. He asked the council to consider giving the nonprofit La…

Hannah Pingree apparently just woke up and suddenly realized she’s about to lose the Democrat primary for governor. Pingree on Saturday came out smoking – but not against her Democrat opponents. No, she came out with a Facebook post attacking Bobby Charles, the leading GOP primary candidate. “This guy’s bigotry has no place in Maine politics,” she said. “I’m sick of it and will wipe the floor with him in November if he makes it out of the Republican primary.” Whoa, baby! Where did that come from? Most obviously it came in response to Charles posting on Facebook, “This is…

Construction of the USS J. William Middendorf has begun with ceremonial first-steel cut. The new warship “will strengthen the U.S. Navy’s missile-defense and escort capacity during sustained operations in the Red Sea, Eastern Mediterranean, and Indo-Pacific,” reports ArmyRecognition.com. The so-called Flight III destroyer is equipped with the SPY-6 radar and Aegis Baseline 10 combat system. The technology is designed to replace the air-defense and command role of the retiring Ticonderoga-class cruisers. The new destroyer will carry 96 Mk 41 vertical launch cells and the AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar, giving it the ability to track and engage ballistic missiles,…

Can you feel the love, after the most-losing team in baseball got swept at Fenway this weekend by the Twins, when a Red Sox caller to Boston sports radio WEEI was immediately cut-off by EEI host KJ Carson? Carson hung-up on a caller from New Hampshire who tried to argue that the Red Sox new radio announcer Will Flemming ain’t no Joe Castiglione, who retired after last season following decades helming the booth for WEEI. The caller introduced his critique of Flemming by saying that he wanted to weigh-in on a Sox issue unrelated to the team’s abysmal record. Carson…

The chairman of the Democratic National Committee says the party is doomed if it keeps attacking Republicans without offering solutions. But Ken Martin is now under pressure to resign for saying out loud what he apparently shouldn’t have. A Democrat congressman from Texas and the DNC’s vice chairman are both calling for Martin to step down. They claim his autopsy of 2024 Democrat election losses failed to offer ways for the party to start winning. But once again they’re blaming without any new and practical ideas for governing. U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, reveals his cluelessness by claiming that Martin…

Janet Mills leaving her name on the ballot while pretending to quit the race is the oldest dirty trick in the world. Democrat Gov. Janet Mills is having her cake and eating it too. To wit, even though Mills claimed recently to be quitting her U.S. Senate primary bid, it’s just an act. Mills intentionally made sure her name still appears on the primary ballot, alphabetically between Graham Platner below and David Costello above. The governor was polling so bad against Platner she saved whatever face she had left and “suspended” her campaign before the votes are counted June 9.…

Mojo is getting extra treats these days. The Maine Coon apparently suspected her owners’ home was filling with deadly carbon monoxide. William Aboud tells the Midcoast Villager that one night earlier this month Mojo began loudly meowing like she had never done before. Simultaneously Pat Aboud began complaining of severe headaches. The cat began closely following her around their Cushing home, continuing her strange guttural meowing. The couple, suspecting Mojo was seriously ill, began making plans to take her to the vet. At that point Aboud, who had tried to comfort Mojo but to no avail, was having trouble walking…

After two weeks and more than 10,000 votes, Boston.com readers have crowned New England’s top suntanning enclave in its Battle of New England Beach Towns bracket – Ogunquit, Maine. “From an original bracket of 32 towns spanning five states, the contest ultimately ended in a Maine battle between Ogunquit and Bar Harbor during the championship round,” says Boston.com’s top travel writer Kristi Palma. Ogunquit’s road to the top began by breaking into the sweet sixteen by beating No. 29 seed Revere by 2,866 votes. The sixteen towns in round two represented Maine, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Ogunquit then beat No.…

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who couldn’t even manage a plate rollout, has announced her new political bedfellow – public-bathroom masturbator-in-chief Graham Platner. “So glad to have Graham on my team!” the Democrat gubernatorial hopeful says on Facebook. “Together we’re going to usher in a new chapter for a progressive and affordable Maine!” Notwithstanding the overuse of exclamation marks, Bellows apparently sees the misogynistic Democrat U.S. Senate primary leader as her salvation. Though Platner’s recently-discovered social-media posts paint him as a bathhouse troll, Bellows sees something otherwise-attractive in him. Could it be winning? He’s leading the polls while she’s…

Staff Sgt. Joey Jones, a popular Fox News moderator who was previously almost mortally wounded in combat, has reenlisted in the Marines. Jones hosted Fox’s weekend morning show with Pete Hegseth, who is now secretary of defense. He lost his legs in 2010 when he stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan while on deployment. Starting in 2019, Jones became a Fox contributor “wingman” for Hegseth and spoke on military analysis and veterans’ services. “How Joey talks about service on television is so that the American people understand it and connect to it in a visceral way,” Hegseth…

Kyle Busch, a two-time NASCAR champion and one of the sport’s greatest drivers, died Thursday of an unspecified illness. Busch was the younger brother of NASCAR Hall of Famer Kurt Busch, who is six years older. Busch’s family said earlier Thursday that he was hospitalized with a “severe illness,” three days before he was to compete in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Associated Press reported. Busch became unresponsive while testing a racing simulator in Concord, N.C., the day before his death and had to be hospitalized, the New York Post reports. Busch dealt with a medical issue earlier…

Donald H. Batting, the longtime, widely popular WBZ NewsRadio reporter affectionately known as “Batman,” has passed away. Batting was a beloved fixture in Boston broadcasting, known for his signature fedora and three-decade career delivering the morning news. His storied career is marked by several notable highlights, including the “Batman” nickname. Batting earned the nickname “Batman” because of his long-running practice of reporting live from his bat-shaped remote broadcasting booth on the morning commute. Starting his career in Rutland, Vermont, Batting spent more than 30 years as a prominent newsman at WBZ, working alongside other Boston icons like Dave Maynard, Gil…

The Maine Democrat Party reportedly canceled a Friday rally in Bangor set to feature Graham Platner and David Costello, the party’s remaining contenders for Senate. No reason was given for the apparent cancellation of the event aimed at faulting five-term GOP Sen. Susan Collins. The Maine Wire reached out to both campaigns for an explanation. “Check with Maine DEMs,” the Costello campaign curtly replied. “Their event, their call…” Costello declined to elaborate, strange since a U.S. Senate candidate should be able to advocate for himself independently of the party. A volunteer for Platner’s campaign replied, “Forwarding your message so you…

Platner’s campaign has been plagued by his derogatory comments about women. For Maine Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, the seedier he gets the better he bests his GOP opponent. Of late he talked about masturbating in public bathrooms and now it’s complaining about taxing prostitution. Nonetheless the latest Pan Atlantic poll shows him beating five-term U.S. Sen. Susan Collins by seven points. The most recent report came Wednesday quoting Platner once lamenting the closing of a loophole that allowed military contractors to save money on taxes by spending their time off “banging hookers in Thailand” instead of getting “b*tched”…

Joey Chestnut was hotdogging it at a speak-easy recently, according to police. The thin-as-a-rail Joey, known worldwide for pounding Coney Island franks, got caught trying to throw his weight around. Not that he has much, despite being able to pound dozens of hot dogs and rolls in annual holiday-eating contests. Competitive eater Joey was sentenced to 180 days probation after pleading guilty to assault following a bar fight in Indiana. Joey will be on probation during the annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, which he’s won 17 times. Chesnut’s lawyer said in a statement that he…

The case involving alleged criminality between the military and corporations is similar to one 40 years ago in Maine. Two business executives alleged by prosecutors to have bribed a now-imprisoned U.S. Navy admiral have been acquitted. A federal jury in Washington cleared Next Jump co-CEOs Yongchul Kim and Meghan Messenger of bribing Adm. Robert Burke. Burke, convicted a year ago in the same case, is currently serving a six-year prison sentence. The same argument prosecutors successfully made against Burke fell short in their case against the two business executives who allegedly conspired with him. They were charged with offering Burke…

The plane that transported an American who tested positive for Ebola made a stop in Maine at Bangor International airport. The Phoenix Air jet stopped in Bangor on Wednesday afternoon for fuel, according to WABI-TV via Penobscot County Area Scanner Page. The aircraft’s final destination was Georgia. Initially leaving from a Greek island, the plane went to Uganda to pick up an American missionary, surgeon Peter Stafford. Reports quoted Dr. Stafford as saying he unknowingly operated on a patient with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo before testing positive. The plane dropped him off in Germany to receive treatment…

Barstool’s Pardon My Take host Hank Lockwood, under fire from Toucher & Hardy on 98.5, isn’t taking kindly to their whiny sniping. Lockwood got a big scoop, as we say, landing an exclusive with ex-Pats head coach Bill Belichick on America’s No. 1 sports podcast. Longtime Boston sports radio hosts Fred Toucher and Rob “Hardy” Poole took issue with PMT hosting the future Hall of Fame head coach and not prying about his relationship or exit from Foxboro.  “I am a little annoyed that they didn’t ask him about Jordon Hudson,” Toucher said, referring to Belichick’s Maine-born gal pal, 49 years his…

A McDonald’s manager has been charged by police with spitting into her ex-girlfriend’s fries. Kaylie Santos, 22, spit into a fry carton at the McDonald’s in Southbridge, Massachusetts and placed fries from her mouth into the order before handing it to the drive-in customer – her former girlfriend. The ex-girlfriend only became aware of the intentional contamination after seeing a video posted to Facebook of the incident. Santos was charged with distributing food with a harmful substance. She is scheduled to be arraigned June 5 in Dudley District Court, according to court records obtained by People.com.

The Midcoast Villager, recently lavished with blind fawning praise by CBS News for its alleged innovations, has abolished the jobs of six staffers, including a top editor. Christine Simmonds loses her managing editor position in the purge. Publisher Aaron Britt told the Bangor Daily News the job cuts were “purely a financial and business decision.” Britt called the layoffs and buyouts “a path to sustainability.” Even a recent puff piece on the Villager by CBS Sunday Morning thumbsucking correspondent Martha Teichner wasn’t enough to solve the paper’s financial crisis. Since the CBS piece aired last fall, three Villager staffers have…

Nirav Shah shows a lead far beyond margin of error in five polls published May 19th by the New York Times. With early Democrat voting already under way in Maine’s gubernatorial primary the incumbent’s late endorsement of Hannah Pingree is of no consequential value. Judging by five polls posted May 19 by the NYT, nothing can save Hannah before the June 9 election, not even a failed governor and ex-boss. Nirav Shah leads the field – including Pingree – in all five polls of Democrat primary candidates hoping to succeed Janet Mills. Mills, the two-term-limited Democrat governor and vanquished U.S.…

Vermont case reminiscent of Maine middle schoolers identifying as cats. As Vermont’s state legislature considers expanding the range of sexual activities considered bestiality, an alert GOP senator sees the handwringing on the wall. During a recent legislative hearing on the proposed bill, Sen. Steven Heffernan, R-Addison, raised fears the measure may simply be a veiled excuse for Therians to escape prosecution. “In these crazy times, what happens if the individual identifies as an animal having intercourse with an animal?” Heffernan wondered aloud. “How are the courts going to handle that?” Renee McGuinness, policy analyst for the Vermont Family Alliance, said…

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s father paid for him and his wife to receive fertility treatments in Norway, according to a new report. When Platner and wife Amy Gertner did a campaign commercial six months ago saying they were going to Norway for affordable reproductive treatments, they never disclosed they weren’t paying for them. Washington Free Beacon now reports who was – his dad. No wonder they were so affordable. At the time, Gertner famously said that “Graham has great sperm” but the swimmers were apparently coming up short. So Graham took Amy and his great sperm on a…

When dessert turns into a science experiment… A trio of students at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro got a very unexpected “menu item” last week after what started as a normal school science experiment somehow made its way into a cafeteria meal. The incident happened during the Empty Bowl Supper, last Wednesday, according to a public notice from the school. Maine radio DJ Arlen Jameson, aka “Kid,” has all the dirt on this unusual tale. Jameson broke the story for I95Rocks.com. He says students working with a teacher had been doing a science experiment involving potting soil. They baked…

LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman also helped solve a Connecticut murder that had a Maine connection. An LAPD cop who famously jumped the wall at murder suspect OJ Simpson’s house and found incriminating evidence has died. Mark Fuhrman later became the accused killer’s scapegoat when he was found to have used a racial profanity. A jury in 1995 let former NFL star Simpson go free despite overwhelming evidence he slaughtered his ex-wife and her male friend. The case was tried in racially-charged Los Angeles amid clashes between the black community and the LAPD. Simpson’s lawyers exploited race to get their client…

Nirav Shah has just begun running a campaign commercial advising Maine residents to worry about a pandemic 7,000 miles away. The obvious question is what does this have to do with … Maine? The obvious answer is absolutely nothing. Maybe Shah is trying to bring attention to his wholly incompetent management of a pandemic in a place he once worked – Illinois, a record of failure he later brought to Maine’s COVID response. “Is the United States prepared for this situation?” he asks, referring to the Congo. “The answer is no. President Trump has gutted our public health infrastructure. We…

The Portland Press Herald, which over 165 years built a dominance to become Maine’s media king, may now be on the road to no return. The Maine Wire has not only overtaken the state’s largest newspaper in a critical audience metric – it has built an unstoppable lead while the Press Herald hemorrhages money, lays off staff, and cancels print editions. The paper that was once a proud check on government malfeasance now enables it. The Press Herald’s stagnant Facebook numbers, which reflect a growing mutiny of readers who can no longer rely on its reporting, are not an accident.…

Harrison Ford, who has repeatedly called President Trump a criminal, just gave a criminally vacuous speech to an Arizona State University graduating class. “Harrison Ford’s ASU commencement speech goes viral,” headlined Ford bumkisser KTLA 5. “In an inspiring speech to the class of 2026, actor Harrison Ford admitted to the mistakes of his generation, before calling on young people to change the world,” said the TV outlet’s pathetic Alix Martichoux. Ford kicked off his address by admitting he didn’t always make the best choices when he was young. (Now there’s a new line.) “I was squandering my life in riotous…

No one did more for putting a discount Maine department store on the map than Karmo Sanders and her famous Marden’s TV commercials. So it’s only fitting that the annual Maine Playwrights Festival mark its 25th year by honoring the memory of the “Marden’s Lady.” The weeklong festival, which runs through May 24 at Stevens Square Theater in Portland, is premiering her ten-minute play, “Ethelred and the Green Door.” The festival, now in its 25th year, features seven world premieres and staged readings, all “pay-what-you-can.” “Sanders, a TV star and acting teacher, left a lasting impact on Maine’s theater scene,”…

A federal judge has given Bar Harbor permission to limit cruise ships during the peak summer months. But Lance Walker has reversed his earlier ruling allowing a more restrictive cap on the waterside tourists. “We won our appeal,” Kristi Bond, spokeswoman for the cruises, said. “We look forward to welcoming all cruise visitors to Bar Harbor once again.” The picturesque summer playground along the northeast Maine coast has been arguing over cruise ships for five years. While businesses embrace the added tourist dollars passengers bring, a group of locals say the cruisers have stolen local life as they once knew…

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won his second NBA MVP award, joining the most elite pro-ball club honors in athletic history. Gilgeous-Alexander becomes only the 14th player in NBA history to win back-to-back MVP awards. “There’s gonna be some uncomfortable convos yall gotta to have…” SGA’s teammate Jalen Williams said on Instagram. Williams has been among SGA’s biggest defenders amid critics who think he’s nothing but an overrated hotdog. SGA is often accused of overplaying his getting fouled but Williams says his numbers and athletic ability put the complaints to shame. The new MVP is close to tying Wilt Chamberlain with the…

Boston Radio Watch finds udderly laughable a new shot of Dianna Russini eating out with the alleged father of her two boys. “Unblocked photo of her,” BRW posted on X. “This is so prearranged.” BRW commented after the Daily Mail ran a picture of Mike Vrabel’s side squeeze having dinner out with her husband before a Bruce Springsteen concert. TMZ also ran the Daily Mail piece. The boys over at BRW are convinced the ex-NFL reporter set up the shot to try to burnish her public image in the wake of publicity linking her romantically with Vrabel, head coach of…

“Home is the sailor, home from sea.” – Robert Louis Stevenson After nearly a year at sea, three warships forged on the banks of the Kennebec River have returned, marking the end of one of the longest and most consequential naval deployments since the Vietnam War. U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth presented the USS Bainbridge (DDG 96), USS Mahan (DDG 72), and USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) with the Presidential Unit Citation in Norfolk, Virginia. They are part of Carrier Strike Group 12, which includes the carrier Gerald R. Ford. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyers built by Bath Iron…

Woodstock, Vermont original Keegan Bradley had a rough two days of golf, so to speak. New England’s favorite big-time golf pro by acclamation failed to make the weekend cut at the PGA championship, one of the four major professional golf tournaments played annually. Bradley was 6 over after finishing the second round Friday, failing to make the 4-over cutline to go into the weekend. Friday was the same day he got into an argument on the golf course with rules officials who said he was playing too slow. Bradley was “put on the clock,” golf-speak meaning if you don’t shape…

“Help out, Mainers! What’s the BEST lobster roll for @VP? JD Vance wants to know where to get the best lobster roll.” That’s the challenge Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, posted Thursday on X looking for a good roll to feed Vice President Vance during his Maine visit. Some of the recommendations: √ “Bayley’s lobster pound in Pine Point Mr. Vice President.” – James Clifton, @clift72239 √ “My husband can grab a few lobsters right off the boat and make him a homemade one if he wants to hang out :)” – Elaine York, @AELeighton2 √ “LDI Lobster at the end…

If the NFL’s Canoodling Coach of the Year survives the Russini affair fallout, he’ll be going up against his nemeses in the new season’s first game. The Seattle Seahawks will begin defense of their Super Bowl title against the team they defeated to win it – the team led by an ex-NFL reporter’s married boyfriend. Seven months after downing the Patriots to capture Super Bowl LX, the Seahawks will welcome the New England Patriots to Lumen Field for the 2026 NFL season opener September 9th. The matchup was among many notables unveiled Thursday night as NFL teams posted their schedules…

“It is with heavy hearts we share the passing of a Biddeford legend, Bob Cote, who served as our manager for 52 years, starting just one year after our founding in 1961 and retiring in 2013.” The news Friday of Cote’s death, announced by Pizza By Alex, saddened generations of his pie customers and co-workers. “Rest easy, legend,” Rapid Ray’s hamburger stand in neighboring Saco posted on Facebook. “More than a manager, Bob was the face of Alex Pizza for decades: always present, always consistent, always there with a smile and a quick wit,” the popular pizza shop said. “While…

It’s all over but the shouting for Maine’s ski areas but the addicted have three other New England holdouts. Black Mountain in New Hampshire and Jay Peak in Vermont will be open through May 17 before they close up shop. It’s Black’s latest closing ever. The final brave soul is Killington in Vermont, which will be in business weekends til all the snow melts. Unfortunately the Maine mountains have called it a season for a reason.

Scientists are urging the public to be vigilant after the first white shark of the year has been confirmed off the Massachusetts coast. A dead seal was found off Martha’s Vineyard, victim of an apparent shark bite, officials said. John Chisholm of the New England Aquarium said photos of the seal’s wound were consistent with that inflicted by a great white, according to Ken Paiva of the Fall River Reporter. “This is just the beginning of white shark season in New England, and it serves as a good reminder to be mindful of the presence of these sharks in inshore…

A trio of guided-missile destroyers built at Bath Iron Works is being given a new strategic thrust to help salvage original problems with the vessels. They will now be designated as the nation’s front line of supersonic naval weaponry, defense officials announced. “The U.S. Navy is repositioning its three Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyers as the fleet’s first operational hypersonic strike warships, according to the May 2026 Shipbuilding Plan, transforming a once-controversial destroyer program into a central element of future American naval warfare,” ArmyRecognition.com reported Thursday. The three Bath ships include the USS Zumwalt, USS Monsoor and USS Lyndon B. Johnson. The…

Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson is being drafted for a future GOP presidential bid. Boston radio’s Kirk Minihane on the heels of Robinson’s introducing Vice President JD Vance in Bangor posted on X that the muckraking editor is a good bet for the White House. “I think there’s a 14 percent chance Steve will be president one day,” Minihane posted. https://twitter.com/kirkmin/status/2055242084538368409?s=20 Robinson in his introduction for Vance’s visit to the state’s scandal-plagued Democrat-controlled government told a brief history of The Maine Wire. The Dexter native and Bowdoin College grad didn’t address his own political future as doing so might have…

The Republican vice president ventured into Maine’s purple congressional district Thursday at an embarrassing cost to the state’s liberal “journalists.” “We’ve got biased reporters in all states. It’s OK. Trust me, I can handle it,” J.D. Vance told a pro-GOP crowd as they shouted down ‘alleged’ questions from a TV guy. During a trip to Bangor, Vance took questions from reporters – or, more aptly, ‘alleged’ reporters, especially the broadcast types. Reps from WCSH-TV and WGME-TV enjoyed trying to counter Vance’s assertion that government fraud under Gov. Janet Mills is real and the Trump administration is cracking down on it…

A staple neighborhood meat and grocery store that got nabbed with a fraudulent food-stamp sale announced it’s closing after nearly four decades in business. Fresh Approach Market’s owners said they never bounced back after losing their food-stamp sales last year and being fined $5,700. The government revoked and then reinstated their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) license after the owners acknowledged that one of their clerks sold non-food items – dish soap and tissues – to an undercover federal agent. “Although we know this was wrong and it never should have happened, our license was suspended for six months and…

Gerald Talbot rightfully got a beautiful sendoff column from the Portland Press Herald after he died recently at age 94. Columnist Steve Collins praised the state’s first black legislator for his many, innumerable civil-rights accomplishments. But Collins astonishingly left out of his remembrance what Talbot did for work outside of his legislative duties and groundbreaking work for minority rights. Talbot worked 25 years for the paper Collins now purports to write for. Talbot was a secret role model for us white folks in the newsroom. (He just didn’t let on.) In fact, he was notably the first black news employee…

A Saco woman who apparently needed a quick pickup – and a fast one at that – went full triage, cops say. Crystal Zahn, 46, has been charged with stealing her ride from MaineHealth Maine Medical Center in Biddeford. Zahn was stopped by police in Buxton after officers spotted the medical vehicle that Northeast Ambulance reported had been taken from the hospital. Northeast had an active tracking device on the stolen ambulance and was able to provide live updates on the vehicle’s location, according to Biddeford Buzz. Zahn was charged with two counts of theft.

Two unidentified New Hampshire vacationers were among those evacuated Monday from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak, authorities confirmed. As a result, hospitals in the Granite State are closely monitoring the situation. New Hampshire officials are working with the two passengers from their state and with federal health authorities to minimize any health risks, WCAX-TV reported. The whereabouts of the two was not immediately publicized. But Dartmouth Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire said it has been contacted by the Centers for Disease Control about the virus. Experts say they do not think hantavirus will turn into…

Frances Hawkes never got her one precious wish – to see her daughter grow into young adulthood. Hawkes died not knowing who murdered her daughter, a mystery that blocked unlocking a mother’s greatest gift of joy. Alice Hawkes was found dead in her Westbrook apartment in 1987 of multiple stab wounds. Not until 39 years later were police able to solve the killing, arresting Alice’s partner Stephen Bouchard, 63, last week. Alice Hawkes was the youngest of five children, her oldest sibling 19 years her senior. By the time she was born her mother was already in her mid-40s, something…

The self-described digger of Maine journalism is boasting about its “local news service … in direct response to what people told us they need.” But arguably the question is what the Maine Monitor is actually doing to ensure its followers are – in its words – “informed and engaged.” The Monitor claims to be “committed to investigative journalism and Maine,” says keen statewide media watchdog Jonathan Reisman of Cooper, Maine, who says he hasn’t “seen anything on fraud, Somalis,” to cite two examples. Reisman, an economist/policy analyst who retired from the University of Maine at Machias after nearly 40 years…

The tough-talking drawling multi-millionaire who made environment a household world and created TV’s first liberal cable sanctuary has died. But for all his high-powered exploits Ted Turner will be also remembered as the one-time husband of actress Jane Fonda, aka “Hanoi Jane” for her anti-Americanism disguised by the legacy media as nothing more than antiwar. “Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family,” according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. “The Ohio-born Atlanta businessman, nicknamed “The Mouth of the South” for his…

Ex-Bruin and now Flyer right wing Garnet Hathaway of Kennebunkport, known for his bruising ice play, now has to spend the off-season wondering ‘what if’ he didn’t fight enough. Hathaway, who now plays for Philadelphia, failed along with his teammates to pull out a win Saturday night. The Flyers were eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 4 of their second-round series. The Hurricanes completed a four-game sweep at Xfinity Mobile Arena, ending the Flyers’ first playoff run since 2020. Tyson Foerster and Alex Bump scored for Philadelphia in the…

Fenway welcomed back legendary 42-season announcer Joe Castiglione earlier this week to call a game for old time’s sake. WEEI featured a special Facebook reel of Castiglione back up in the broadcast booth high above the diamond. Castiglione became famous for calling four World Series championships, including the historic 2004 victory. He retired from a full-time, regular-season schedule after the 2024 season, but remains a Boston Red Sox ambassador, and plans to call a handful of games this season. Castiglione was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame and received the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick…

Deborah Van Patten was walking her beloved Frankie behind a New Hampshire high school when her pup was electrocuted after stepping into a puddle. Following community support and a plea from Van Patten, Portsmouth officials have agreed to donate $5,000 to the NHSPCA in memory of Frankie. Frankie died in the February incident after an underground cable which connected two lamps in the Portsmouth High School parking lot broke, electrifying the puddle he walked through. Van Patten recently appeared before city councilors, asking them to acknowledge the incident and that the city make a donation to the Society for the…

Political commentator Dick Morris dismissed the chances of Democrat Graham Platner defeating five-term U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, despite a recent poll showing Platner leading the longtime Republican incumbent by seven points. Speaking Saturday on Newsmax’s “Saturday Report,” Morris said he did not believe the polling reflected the eventual outcome of the race and predicted Collins would win reelection comfortably. “I don’t know if that poll is right, but there is no way in hell that Platner is going to win,” Morris said. He argued that a Collins victory would significantly complicate Democratic efforts to flip the Senate.“The significance of that…

After President Trump threatened and imposed Canadian tariffs, Democrat Gov. Janet Mills – with the help of the state’s largest newspaper – cried that Maine tourism would suffer a backlash. Unfortunately for Janet, tourism spending actually went up last year, according to a report Friday in the usually-Mills-friendly Portland Press Herald. The paper of course had been glad to join its friend the governor cheerleading her anti-Trump fervor. But now that the 2025 numbers are in, all the sky-is-falling feigning over fear that Trump’s offending Canadian tourists and scaring them off from visiting Maine proved to be a complete fallacy.…

It’s sometimes hard to tell which is worse, incompetent government or none at all. As De Tocqueville (1805-1849) said, “we want to be free but we want to be led.” So we get what we asked for. York, Maine along the beautiful Atlantic coast is one of the most historic communities in the world, becoming the first incorporated city in America in 1642. Sadly, local government seems unable – or unwilling – to manage its gift. The latest case in evidence is a $4 million village “revitalization” that was “only” supposed to cost $3 million. But bids came in too…

When iconic singer Britney Spears finally decided enough was enough she came to a $12 million oceanfront Maine mansion to dry out. TMZ is reporting that the “Princess of Pop,” as she’s known, received detox and mental-health treatment at Borden Cottage in Camden. “Sources close to Spears” told TMZ she chose the “quiet, rural facility for “dual diagnosis care for both substance abuse and mental health services, following her recent DUI arrest,” the outlet says. “We’re told the super private center sits on a 14-acre estate and offers high-end, individualized treatment,” TMZ added. “The program blends clinical therapy with holistic…

The “lifestyle” columnist for Maine’s largest daily is worried that the state’s largest city is losing the fight to newcomers. “Portland’s Maine-born population has dropped to 40%,” Leslie Bridgers writes. “Is that a problem?” Well apparently it is or Bridgers would neither have asked the question nor written an entire column about it. Bridgers complains that the percentage of Portland’s native-born residents is lower than anytime in memory. “Bringing diversity and new energy to a place are generally considered positive changes, fostering innovation and expanding everyone’s perspective,” Bridgers writes. “But is there a breaking point in the ratio of natives…

Stephen A. Smith insists on everyone using his middle initial so you can figure out what kind of guy he is. But however much of an egotistical assh**** he is, he’s a nationally-influential and widely followed political and sports commentator. So it was not for nothing Thursday when he told Celtic crybaby Jaylen Brown to STFU. Brown, of course, is as much of a hot head as Stephen A. Smith. Jaylen has been whining since the Celtics lost their playoffs that he’s not appreciated as the star that he thinks he is. So on his podcast Thursday, Stephen A. Smith…

The USS Mason used its five-inch and .50-caliber guns Thursday to repel its second Strait of Hormuz attack this week, defense officials said. The Bath-built, Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, along with the USS Truxton and USS Rafael Peralta, was attacked by Iranian missiles, drones and small boats. The U.S. military’s Central Command confirmed the attacks in a statement and said the U.S. military responded with “self-defense strikes” on Iranian facilities, including drone and missile launch sites. The U.S. vessels were not struck, CENTCOM said.”They trifled with us today,” President Trump said. “We blew them away.”

Ex-President Obama claims he has such a patriotic duty to protect the populace from President Trump he’s doing so at the peril of losing his marriage. In an interview with The New Yorker the former president says his wife is mad at him for paying more attention to Trump than to her. “She wants to see her husband easing up and spending more time with her, enjoying what remains of our lives,” Obama said. “It does create a genuine tension in our household, and it frustrates her.” At the beginning of Trump’s first term Obama stayed largely silent about his…

TMZ has gained access to footage showing Pats coach Mike Vrabel walking down a dock to meet gal pal Dianna Russini. See it here. The shocking video comes a day after TMZ found out the two secret lovers five years ago rented a boat together in Tennessee. The meetup discovery comes amid speculation whether the growing scandal may cost the three-time Superbowl star his job. Who’s the Daddy?

The Portland Press Herald actually thinks it’s in the news business. With a blaring headline Wednesday night the paper wrote: “Susan Collins discloses medical condition” Talk about the obvious. The paper was so proud of itself it boasted that Collins “said in a statement to the Press Herald Wednesday evening” she has a tremor. The five-term senator said she has a benign “essential tremor.” Tear up Page 1. “Not news,” Kelly Thurston of Oxford commented on Facebook.”Been this way for years.” “She’s had this for years,” said Nica Bates of Westbrook. “Not news.” “An Essential tremor is a common, often…

The Vrabel-Russini boating excursion is reminiscent of a famous National Enquirer photo of doomed Democrat presidential candidate Gary Hart getting caught in 1987 on a vessel called Monkey Business with his mistress Donna Rice in his lap. TMZ on Wednesday revealed new photos showing Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini boating alone five years ago just two months before she gave birth to a baby she named Michael. The outlet’s discovery helps confirm speculation the NFL star and curvy reporter were involved in an affair that has been ongoing for years. The TMZ report contains documents with signatures of both the…

The national GOP podcaster Tucker Carlson, who lives part-time in Maine, has seen his 2028 presidential odds rise recently. Carlson’s 2028 presidential election odds recently hit an all-time high on the prediction market platform Polymarket as he has teased a potential presidential run. As of May 1, Carlson reached 7 percent odds, with his chances sitting at 6.3 percent as of May 6th, I95Rocks.com’s Jordan Verge reports. Carlson currently holds the third-best odds, behind U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at 20.8 percent and Vice President J. D. Vance, who currently leads the field at 39.1 percent. The host of…

Kim Carrigan asked Candy O’Terry on her weekly podcast to “name a song that instantly changes your mood.” “In My Life by the Beatles,” O’Terry responded with glee. That’s just an example of the sophomoric level to which two once-serious Boston mikers have fallen since their heyday. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Rather than going through her weekly speed round of puffball questions, why doesn’t Carrigan use her time with a sharp mind like Terry O’s to ask, for instance, “What is Michelle Wu doing about housing illegals in Boston?” Or maybe “What’s with Jaylen Brown’s mommy…

The latest so-called “newsletter” from the top editor of Maine’s largest daily reads more like a letter home from summer camp. Or maybe it’s a letter home to mom for upcoming Mother’s Day, which coincidentally is Sunday. Either way, it’s the furthest thing from a “newsletter,” which in the infinite wisdom of the Maine Trust for Local News is supposed to contain… news? “Last week was spring break for much of Maine, my family included,” executive editor Carolyn Fox writes. “We spent five days in Quebec City after traveling north up the Kennebec River through Jackman and across the border.…

Brian Hayden Jr. of Wells began operating his father’s earthmoving machines when he was just 5 years old. Hayden’s adroit handling of the huge Caterpillar diesel beasts never left him, evidence a new trophy naming him the Cat operator of the ages. “Meet Your Global Operator Challenge Champion! 🏆,” Cat announced on Facebook. “Brian Hayden from the United States proved himself the best of the best after taking on three demanding challenges and eight other finalists at Caterpillar’s Global Operator Challenge, held at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026,” Cat officials said. “Con Expo,” held in Las Vegas Nevada, is billed as the largest…

The state’s largest halfway-house chain for the mentally ill had just hired a new executive director as a staffer was knifed to death in cold blood. Shalom House of Portland announced on April 30 it was promoting its clinical director to the top management spot – executive director. Abigail Spadone will succeed Mary Haynes-Rodgers, the $155,000-a-year director who is retiring after 18 years. Shalom House first hired Spadone in 2017 as residential treatment director, promoting her two years later to clinical director. The facility has just advertised seeking applications for the $100,000 position Spadone is vacating. The administrative shuffle comes…

The league has fined Celtics big mouth Jaylen Brown $50,000 for criticizing the refs during a live stream after Boston’s Game 7 loss to the 76ers. The NBA announced the penalty Tuesday night, per Yahoo Sports. Brown had said in a livestream he hosts that game officials “clearly had an agenda” to call fouls against him for “pushing off” when he drove toward the basket while handling the ball. “There’s some referees that need to be investigated,” Brown said on the livestream Sunday, a day after Boston’s 109-100 loss to Philly in their first-round playoff series. During Sunday’s stream, ESPN…

One of the most recognizable personalities in Boston TV news is moving on to greener pastures. Mark Ockerbloom, veteran anchor at WFXT-TV, is leaving the station after more than two decades. The Mass native, affectionately known by viewers as “Ock,” said he will be spending more time with his family following a 40-year career in broadcast journalism, the Patriot Ledger reported. “As a kid who grew up in Winchester, it was the thrill of a lifetime to get to work in my home market,” Ockerbloom said in a statement.”I want to thank all of the talented people I’ve had the…

The most unpopular guy in Boston these days claims he has no worries about his Sox, despite ticket holders chanting “sell the team!” “Fans get frustrated,” team owner John Henry told the Sports Business Journal. “It doesn’t mean you ignore them, it means you work harder,” Henry added. “You don’t settle for mediocrity. You have to win.” The problem is the fans don’t see the Red Sox winning and their record shows that’s the reality. The New York Post is wondering whether Henry is paying more attention to the British soccer team he owns than to New England’s Sox. “Many…

Former New England Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs was acquitted Tuesday of trying to suffocate his former chef and lover. The six-person jury rendered its verdict after just 90 minutes of deliberations. The case centered on a Dec. 2 encounter at Diggs’ home in Dedham, Massachusetts where Jamila Adams, a former live-in personal chef who is known as Mila, testified he slapped and choked her during an argument. Diggs pleaded not guilty, and his attorneys claimed the assault never happened. The case turned on questions about Adams’ credibility and whether the dispute was about money or an assault, AP reported. Defense…

A guided-missile ship that was built by Bath Iron Works fended off an attack in the Iran war, defense officials told CBS News. The USS Mason was fired on by drones and missiles but shot them all down. “The USS Mason and USS Truxtun , supported by Apache helicopters and other aircraft, faced a series of coordinated threats during the passage,” the defense officials said. Iran launched small boats, missiles and drones against them in what officials described as a sustained barrage, CBS reports. “Despite the intensity of the attacks, neither U.S. vessel was struck,” the news outlet said. Military…

The Biddeford zoning board has rejected University of New England’s request to start cutting down trees for a new research pier. “A big win for those who have expressed opposition to a new pier along the Saco River,” Biddeford Buzz reported. The school had wanted to clear trees along the waterway as well as demolish Leonard Hall. The planned $200,000 project was to cut trees along the river in order to build an access road. Board members decided the permit request was covered by a building moratorium the city recently enacted preventing future school construction, despite school officials insisting they…

An ex-network TV queen who says she got pushed out for a younger version is hawking a new memoir with a stop in Maine. “Back in one of our favorite places, Naples Maine, and how could we not stop for a bowl of chowder and a Maine lobster roll?” Joan Lunden posted on Facebook. Lunden also put up a picture of an evening overlooking the lake in the western part of the state. “Sunsets over Long Lake in Naples, Maine are breathtaking, as the sun slips behind the White Mountains,” she commented. Lunden, 75, is on a book tour promoting…

Bruins Coach Marco Sturm has sent a subtle message to Bruins GM Don Sweeney after the team’s crushing finals iceout. During a news conference after Boston lost in the playoffs to Buffalo, Sturm talked about the need to get more guys ready to get in front of the net. “One of the biggest reasons why we made it this far is our goalies,” said Sturm. “We can’t expect that every year. So that means we – as a group – we need to find ways to limit scoring.” Scott Roche, reporter for Causeway Crowd, said there needs to be additions…

Despite $60-million-a-year Jayson Tatum being useless to the Boston Celtics due to his injuries, he’s still management’s class pet. That is sticking in the craw of Jaylen Brown, who despite loyally filling the gap left by Tatum’s extended medical leaves isn’t the front office’s fair-haired boy. “Yup, either he’s bout to ask for a trade so he can run his own show or Tatum bout to be moved,” Mo Sports Network on Facebook commented Monday. “They not going to keep them both together past next season.” By the numbers, Tatum is the better player, according to a NESN analysis published…

The former personal cook for Stefon Diggs broke down into tears Monday recounting the ex-wide receiver choking her at his multimillion dollar mansion as his assault trial got underway. Jamila Adams said on Dec. 2, 2025 she texted Diggs from her bedroom in his house, upset he wasn’t taking her to a Miami art show. Adams said he burst into her room shouting “‘What was all that sh*t you was talkin?’” before attacking her. “He smacked me with an open hand,” Adams testified as she began to cry during the first day of his trial. Adams said she tried to…

Invitation to Maine Democratic Party executive director comes in wake of dust-up over weekend convention press coverage The host of Maine Wire TV has extended a warm invitation to the executive director of the Maine Democratic Party to appear on the program, despite their political differences. Tom Shattuck, managing editor of The Maine Wire, said on Monday’s daily show that Devon Murphy-Anderson is more than welcome to come on. Shattuck also extended the invitation to Graham Platner, Democrat primary candidate for U.S. Senate. https://twitter.com/TheMaineWire/status/2050330211024253033?s=20 Reporter Jon Fetherston, the only journalist Murphy-Anderson barred from covering the weekend Democrat convention, promised he…

Barney Frank, reprimanded as a congressman after hiring and then living with a male prostitute, now is giving Democrats advice? A terminally-ill formerly sanctioned Massachusetts congressman and first openly-gay federal lawmaker is now scolding fellow Maine liberals for picking the wrong U.S. Senate candidate. “I am concerned that some of my party have chosen the flavor of the month so that somebody who is new and doesn’t know much is somehow preferred over the people who know how to do the hard work to get controversial things adopted,” Barney Frank told CNN on Sunday. Frank, 86, was interviewed live from…

The Democrat Party of late has found a convenient excuse for losing – senility. The leftists did it with Biden and they’re now doing it with Janet Mills. But in reality it’s not old age that killed Biden and Maine’s two-term governor. It’s their policies. Age is just a cheap distraction from open borders, crime, high taxes and and at least in Maine outright financial, billion-dollar government fraud. For years now, The Maine Wire has been relentlessly highlighting Janet’s illegal Chinese weed farms, Medicaid Somali fraud, outrageous electric prices and bad roads, to name just a few. So it’s not…

After more than three decades as a morning drive fixture in Boston, Susan Semedo is dialing up retirement. From the daily-morning drive grind, that is. Known on-air as Pebbles, Semedo is leaving mornings at Beasley Media Group’s Hip-Hop and R&B Hot 96.9 (WBQT) to focus full-time on her “Positively Pebbles” brand, Radio Ink reports. Semedo joined Hot 96.9 at its launch in 2013 after more than 15 years at Jam’n 94.5 (WJMN), where she built the morning franchise that eventually followed her across the dial, RI reporter Cameron Coats says. “Northeastern alum Pebbles began her career at WILD 1090 (1988-1995),…

Conservative businessman and Maine gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush tells Breitbart News the GOP has a “much better chance”of holding its U.S. Senate seat against Democrat Graham Platner than vs. Janet Mills. “He’s a silly boy,” Bush said in a Saturday interview with Breitbart. “He went to private school, and got kicked out of Hotchkiss, so he went to another private school, and had unsuccessful experience after unsuccessful experience. “Now he sells oysters to his mom, which is sort of hilarious, that he’s in a getup like a Maine fisherman,” Bush told Breitbart’s Elizabeth Weibel. “He wouldn’t last five minutes as…

Maine-born Jordon Hudson has captured top honors from her latest cheerleading contest, cheered on by ‘WAG’ Bill Belichick. Downeast-Maine’s Hudson, 25, is still young enough to flex into the most-challenging cheerleading contorts, while ex-Pats coach Bill 74, can only dream… Belichick was there by her side, however old his gal-pal’s flexible follies made him feel. “The former NFL great coach was down at Walt Disney World this weekend cheering from the sidelines,” SportingNews.com reported. “Hudson’s ‘Cheer Extreme Code Black’ team won another championship in the International Open Coed Non-Tumbling division at the Cheerleading Worlds,” SN said. Jeff Hauser, the reporter…

‘NFL reporter Dianna Russini had insider info from boy pal Mike Vrabel on illegal trade.’ – Tony Farmer The betting markets are showing a 1:4 chance that embattled canoodling New England Patriots Coach Mike Vrabel will soon be gone. Mike Florio of NBC’s Pro Football Talk checked in with Kalshi and Polymarket for their predictions. The key test is whether former NFL reporter Dianna Russini is ready to spill. “Given the developments to date and the possibility, if not inevitability, of more developments to come, it remains possible that Mike Vrabel won’t remain the head coach of the Patriots,” Florio…

Due to deteriorating water quality in the St. George River, pets are now banned from a midcoast park. Thomaston officials have declared Mill River Park along the banks of the river off limits to dogs due to apparent pollution. The decision to ban canines from the picturesque park follows ongoing water quality concerns in the St. George, according to Pen Bay Pilot. Recent findings from the Maine Department of Marine Resources indicate that microbial contamination levels are approaching regulatory limits, with evidence suggesting pet waste may be contributing to water quality impacts in the area, according to a news release.…

A Biddeford homeless overnight shelter, enmeshed in a budget battle with city councilors, announced Friday it’s opening a second facility. Seeds of Hope said it is assuming operation of York County Family Shelter in Sanford, according to Biddeford Buzz.com. Beyond a canned press release containing fawning accolades for the York shelter’s years in operation, Seeds of Hope officials offered no information to help the public understand how it intends to finance the new facility, especially in the face of its own budget hassles. The announced expansion of the Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center comes as center officials catch flack from…

Celts, B’s, Sox: #BeanBust 2026 When the owners of a pro sports team agree to pay a player $60 million dollars to play 82 games, they must expect him to be a big winner. Jayson Tatum of the Celtics is in the first of a five-year contract paying him $300 million to win basketball games – the biggest salary deal in NBA history. The average per-game payout was actually much higher this, the first year, because Tatum only played 22 games due to time away healing from an injury suffered last year. By the numbers, on Saturday night Tatum’s 2025-2026…

The top jock on the Boston waves who’s made a career out of humiliating then-Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Barney Frank now says Frank got one close to right, literally. “You know Democrats have lost the plot when even Barney Frank is saying his party has ‘embraced an agenda that goes beyond what is politically acceptable,’” Carr said Friday. “The Democrats have gone too far left for even Barney Frank? That tells you a lot,” Carr added. Then this from Carr: “Barney is 86 years old, and apparently on the way out. He’s in hospice in Ogunquit, Maine, which is basically Provincetown…

The Boston Bruins’ season has ended in heartache for New England ice diehards who’d prayed for an 11th hour comeback. The Bees lost 4-1 Friday to the Buffalo Sabres in game six of the first-round playoff series at TD Garden, Buffalo having taken the series four games to two. The Sabres took a 2-0 advantage in the first period and never lost their edge as they held Boston to just one goal when it was all over. “It’s tough, a missed opportunity, obviously,” Nikita Zadorov told BostonBruins.com. “With the group we had, the belief we have in this room, and…

A sports-betting company hired a plane to hover above the Boston Red Sox with a banner blasting team ownership. The aircraft circled over Fenway Park, trailing a banner behind it that read, “FIRE CRAIG! SELL THE TEAM!” in red letters. The flyover was commissioned by the online sports betting company Underdog, which wants Sox owner John Henry to fire Craig Breslow. Fans are blaming Breslow, the team’s chief baseball officer who Henry ordered fire manager Alex Cora. They also want Henry to sell the team, which has had an abysmal season so far showing a 13-19 start. Underdog created the…