Author: Ted Cohen

A bitter, heretofore-secret contract dispute between a Saco high school and the city’s education leaders has gone public. Superintendent Jeremy Ray issued an equally-angry response to Thornton Academy’s headmaster, Rene Menard, who wrote to taxpayers pleading for support. Thornton is a private high school that contracts with the city for secondary education. Menard claims in a letter to taxpayers that the school board is essentially trying to end the 200-year relationship between the city and Thornton and send Saco kids to other area high schools. “The negotiating team for the Saco School Board has drawn a line in the sand,…

Spectacular video online shows a Nantucket surf fisherman catching a great white shark. The fisherman reeled in Jaws on Nantucket’s south shore on Sunday, as dozens of people gathered on the beach to watch and record the spectacle. The Nantucket Current reported the incredible story on X. Elliot Sudal has been fishing for sandbar sharks and other species during the summers for more than a decade. On Sunday, he was out fishing on the south shore with his apprentice, Stone Fornes, and fellow angler Nathan Skerritt, when they realized they had a big one on the line. The Current caught…

The state’s two-term-limited governor is still holding out hope she can become the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate. Despite Janet Mills losing the primary to neophyte Graham Platner by some 50 points, she’s banking on the controversy-plagued Platner to eventually decline the nomination. Platner, 41, a Sullivan ex-Marine whose Nazi tattoo, misogynistic behavior and anti-establishment rhetoric have raised questions over his fitness for public office, nonetheless trounced Mills by winning roughly 70 percent of Tuesday’s vote. Mills received some 20 percent of the remainder, her name appearing on the ballot despite having suspended active campaigning once she realized she couldn’t…

The apparent Maine primary U.S. Senate Democrat nominee is blaming a former Navy SEAL for an allegedly fake memoir. Graham Platner is accusing Marcus Luttrell of “lying” in his popular war memoir about his combat experience in Afghanistan. Platner claims Luttrell used a ghostwriter who supposedly ripped off another SEAL’s book to create a work of fiction. The Platner attack is what the Washington Free Beacon calls “the latest example of the far-left Senate hopeful smearing his fellow combat veterans, and of his particular antipathy to Special Forces.” Platner, who served in the Marine Corps and the Army, has a…

Air Canada has pulled the wings of one of its captains. Well actually he had no wings to pull. The unnamed “captain,” as it turns out, was flying in the left seat without a license. The best part is Air Canada officials say passengers weren’t endangered. The airline, which did not name the pilot, claims he held a “valid commercial pilot license” but was promoted to captain without the required airline transport pilot permit. Air Canada says the fake captain was removed from active duty once he was discovered and voluntarily reported to Transport Canada. The pilot is no longer…

Maine’s infamous Democrat Senate hopeful, who sexted up to 12 chicks, has a new competitor – Republican JD Vance. The vice president has a dozen chicks too – but not Graham Platner’s brand. The vice president has added a chicken coop to his residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory, along with a dozen baby chicks whose new henhouse is designed to look like the Victorian home where the second family lives. The coop, which features a round turret and faux slate roof, was donated by Carolina Coops, a North Carolina company that advertises “premium” coops that have amassed a social…

I-75 in Chattanooga turned into an unscheduled fireworks show when a truck loaded with holiday bangers blew up.🔥 The truck full of explosives aka fireworks slated for a July 4 show caught fire on the freeway near Ooltewah, Tennessee and started launching them everywhere like nature decided to celebrate early. No injuries were reported, but traffic was wild. Who else is glad they weren’t stuck in that lane? They know how to celebrate America’s 250th in the south – and a month early to boot!🎆 Check out the video here.

The pathetic losing Boston Red Sox are now proving to be as much of a ratings threat to their broadcast partner as to owner John Henry’s wallet. It’s gotten so bad that WEEI’S game night Red Sox host seems close to jumping from the top of the 37′ Green Monster left-field wall after the Sox lost, yet again, Monday. In his post-game review Monday night, after the Sox lost to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, WEEI’s Christian Arcand sounded even more despondent than last week. “It’s not good for me that the Sox fans are zeroing us out,” Arcand lamented,…

The 60 Minutes correspondent canned for insubordination now falsely claims he’s a combat veteran. Scott Pelley was asked by New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro to respond to President Trump’s calling him “one of the stupid crooked people who don’t care about your country.” “Don’t care about the country?” Pelley asked, clearing his throat, choking back tears. “Uh, I’ve never worn the uniform but I’ve been in combat for this country,” he dramatically claimed as the tears flowed. “In Afghanistan and Iraq and Kuwait, been shot at, spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. “I’m not…

A pair of socialist candidate recruiters had their eyes on an alternative to Graham Platner when they began looking for a good suspect to run against five-term U.S. GOP Sen. Susan Collins. Yale Law School grad Daniel Moraff and his fiancé, Leanne Fan, an academic with stints at Harvard and the proudly radical University of California-Berkeley, first sought out a union leader at Bath Iron Works. That’s according to a new report in the New York Post. The pair had originally met while working for Bernie Sanders in 2020 and are hardcore members of the Democrat Socialists of America. When…

Heather Lombard for a decade has offered up her goats for clients needing a good brush chomping. Suddenly, Lombard says, she’s being scapegoated – accused of operating an illegal animal sanctuary on her West Kennebunk property. “There’s an abundance of animals that need to be rescued, and we are basically just trying to give these animals a space and peaceful time for the rest of their lives without any threat of being euthanized or treated poorly,” Lombard said. But recently Lombard says she was told to get rid of all of her goats and pigs. Code Officer Brian Paul told…

A half-dozen children’s camps across Maine are among 30 such facilities caught up in a massive northeast bankruptcy filing. Simad Holdings, which runs 22 overnight camps and eight day camps, sought court protection Thursday, listing more than $500 million in liabilities on its Chapter 11 petition. Simad shareholders Michael and David Shabsels also filed personal bankruptcy, according to Bloomberg News. The combined camps were appraised last year at nearly $500 million, according to a valuation report. Roughly 19,900 campers passed through Simad properties last year, Bloomberg said. The company’s properties in Maine include: √ Indian Acres Camp and Forest Acres…

Bernie Sanders is afraid Graham Platner may about to be toast. That’s why he posted a lengthy hail-mary tweet over the weekend. Embattled Graham Platner, wounded by yet another allegation of questionable behavior, avowed he’s not being pressured to drop out. “We’re going to win this thing,” the presumptive party’s nominee told Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Platner said he’s not leaving the campaign to become the Democrat choice Tuesday to go up against five-term U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. He said he will continue to “go out and continue to engage with people, to talk about the reality that Mainers…

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has gotten off on the wrong foot. Wrong feet, actually. The sponsoring organization first came under fire for prohibiting fans from bringing refillable water bottles to the matches. They claim the bottles represent a safety hazard because fans might throw them onto the fields. But after a public backlash FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) backed down, now saying it’ll allow them. No sooner did it put that fire out than Canadian fans announce they were protesting the high ticket prices. The 2026 games – there will be 104 this summer – begin June 11…

Real-estate appraiser David D. Wilson way up in Levant, Maine is among Sox fans across New England trying to figure out just what is going on with the team this year. It’s been one disaster after another, beginning with decisions management made last year. And the won-loss record shows it seemingly getting even worse this summer. Wilson made up a list: 1. Crochet, Roman, Story, Casas & Romy all start the 2026 season hurt. First three are among a group of the five best players. 2. Manager Alex Cora mentally checked out at the end the 2025 season. 3. Campbell…

√ Jill Biden says she was “absolutely shocked” that Kamala lost, which is a window into how out of touch with the human condition the Bidens are. √ The ex-first Mrs. also made a Freudian slip on MSDNC, saying “we” selected Kamala to be VP. Then she tried to correct herself but it was too late. Ex-president Joe Biden jumped up from the audience during Jill Biden’s book tour, asking “who do you love the most? Jill, standing next to Whoopi Goldberg, replied she loves Whoopi the most. As “The View” co-host tried to speak, the clueless former president continued…

Brayan Bello is a former pitcher for the Double A Sea Dogs in Portland, Maine. It’s too little too late since the Sox are likely out of contention. But management has solved the Brayan Bello problem. They demoted the $76 million Bello Thursday by sending him down to Triple A Worcester. Bello allowed eight runs and walked three through five innings of work in Boston’s 8-2 loss to the Orioles. Following the loss, Bello told reporters that he wants people to “stop talking” about whether he is a starting pitcher or a reliever, according to the New York Post. Bello…

Platner pooh-poohs explosive rumors, while mother-in-law brands sexting allegations as “bulls*it.” Maine’s presumptive Democrat U.S. Senate candidate has assured national party leaders the worst about his past has come out, a new report says. But when a liberal U.S. senator stalwart backing his candidacy clarifies the difference between marital problems and rape, that may indicate what Graham Platner is now up against. The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday about a meeting Platner had the day before with his backers in the nation’s capital. “Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who attended the meeting, said there is a big difference between marital…

Whale “conservationist” Robert Wyland is suing the world football association for failing to “conserve” one of his whaling murals. Wyland, who once painted one of his iconic whaling walls along the Portland, Maine waterfront, believes his public artwork is, like the whales, protected by federal law. Wyland’s mural in Dallas stood for nearly three decades before workers began painting over it last month to promote the World Cup. He has filed a $25 million lawsuit against Federation International Football Association officials, saying they illegally painted over his work to promote the city’s 2026 matches. Wyland claims World Cop organizers, the…

Horseshoe crabs finally have legal representation. It only took 500 million years or so. A so-called environmental group has filed a lawsuit in behalf of the ancient chelicerates trying to get them classified as endangered. After the National Marine Fisheries Service declined to list the species as needing protection, the Center for Biological Diversity has gone to court. The center is seeking Endangered Species Act protections for the crabs, which live up and down the Atlantic coast. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, challenges National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s finding that federal protections for horseshoe crabs were not warranted,…

The New York Post usually gets it right. But calling Scott Pelley in its headline Monday a “star” is overdoing it by about half. Fact is, 60 Minutes ever only had one real bonafide star – Mike Wallace, the famous trenchcoated muckraker. If Pelley was a “star,” it was only in his own mind. He has now been canned twice by CBS News, the first time being when he failed to build an audience as anchor of the CBS Evening News. Pelley’s latest axing came a day after he whined about the new president of CBS News, pro-Trumper Bari Weiss.…

Maine’s embattled presumptive Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate discussed buying cocaine in Reddit posts and admitted drug use while backpacking during paid military leave, Washington Free Beacon reports. Graham Platner, in since-deleted posts from 2020, recalled his travels through Europe just before leaving the Marine Corps in 2008. “I was making a pretty penny doing just about nothing. Went backpacking through Europe on the government dime, walked the Camino de Santiago, did some drugs and had a blast partying it up in hostels across the continent,” wrote Platner, who posted on Reddit under the handle P-Hustle, according to Beacon reporter…

WEEI’s Chris Arcand calls “starter” Bryan Bello “the absolute worst pitcher in the world this season.” If the loser Red Sox want to “start” winning games they ought to figure out how to assign a starting pitcher. They’re treating alleged “starter” Brayan Bello with kid gloves, allowing him to delay his “starts” until the second inning. Time for a Bello to put on his big-boy cleats. He is no more a starting pitcher than any of us. Bello doesn’t start any games now…even on the days he’s scripted to start. Why? Because he says he’s too nervous to start any…

‘Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini Just One of Many NFL Sex Secrets’ NFL reporter Crissy Froyd, canned for criticizing Dianna Russini over her steamy photos with Pats coach Mike Vrabel, says she was among the first to know about the affair. Froyd just wrote a column for The Daily Mail saying she had heard Russini was sleeping with Vrabel for five years. The vanquished Froyd also revealed Russini is just a smattering – that she knows many female reporters who’ve had sex with NFL personnel. “Around 2020, I was told by a well-known national sports reporter in explicit terms that Vrabel, then…

Antisemitic Zohran Mamdani, NYC’s first Muslim mayor, skips Israel Day parade but attends May Day celebration of communism. Failed New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, forced from the New York governorship by accusations of sexual assault, is blaming Democrat socialists for his political demise. Cuomo told conservative podcaster Bill O’Reilly that his father’s Democrat party is being torn apart by a major internal struggle. He describes it as a “simmering civil war” between moderates and the party’s far-left wing. Cuomo leveled his harshest criticism at the wing of the party that forced him to quit as New York governor…

A Saco middle school teacher has smashed the world record for three-pointers, school officials said Monday night. Ryan Martin, known by Saco Middle School as “Dr. Buckets,” broke the record by 412 baskets. Martin sank 11,115 three-point throws in a 24-hour period, school spokeswoman and contributing writer Karen Garnett reported in the Biddeford Buzz. He began throwing at 9:30 a.m. on May 31 and continued nonstop through the night and into Monday morning, June 1, 2026, in the Saco Middle School gymnasium. “This challenge pushed me physically and mentally more than any record I’ve attempted before,” Martin told Garnett. “There…

NASA confirmed Monday that a massive meteor fireball moving at a speed of 42,000 miles per hour entered Earth’s atmosphere over New England and broke apart before crashing. The earthshaking event occurred Saturday yet most who heard a large boom had no firm idea of its origin until NASA’s confirmation of what it was. The boom rattled homes and startled residents across Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon. The meteor was 40 miles above northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire at 2:06 p.m. when it broke the sound barrier, scientists said Sunday. NASA estimated the five-foot meteor weighed roughly 11,000 pounds. The…

Fired NBC football analyst Chris Simms let it all hang out in an obscene tirade during a broadcast reunion with Pro Football Talk host Mike Florio. Simms, a former NFL quarterback and son of NFL star thrower and two-time Super Bowl Giants champ Phil Simms, got into an argument Friday with Florio on air. Florio and Simms were mid-course through a discussion about Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson when they took issue with each other’s feelings about Jackson’s talent. Simms, feeling Florio was belittling him for praising Jackson’s talent, screamed at Florio to shut up. Florio was trying to persuade…

A Miss Portland Diner customer shockingly found a surveillance camera in the eatery run by the top dog at Maine’s largest newspaper. Cheyenne Farrell says she found the cam hidden in the women’s bathroom, according to WGME-TV. Portland Police are investigating the creepy discovery in the diner owned by Stefanie Manning. Manning runs the diner as a side hustle to her main dish as the president and publisher of the Portland Press Herald. After her meal Farrell says she got up to use the bathroom, where she noticed a chair in the corner of the stall. “I don’t think anything…

A four-time Emmy winner and University of Southern Maine grad is back in front of the camera, proving there are second acts. Or, in the case of Tony Shalhoub, third, fourth and so on… Shalhoub will play Matthew Gray-Gubler’s dad on “Einstein,” which joins CBS’ 2026-27 broadcast season and is currently in production. The role will reunite Shalhoub with the creator and executive producer of the hit USA Network series Monk, which made the USM grad an iconic actor. Einstein follows Lewis Einstein, the brilliant but directionless great-grandson of Albert Einstein. He spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor…

When the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance challenges you, it’s apparently time to go on a crash diet. So Southwest Airlines is dropping its requirement that really fat people pay for two seats. The airline had recently put a new policy in place saying morbidly-obese passengers who took up more than one seat had to buy a second seat. But once the fat lobbyists cried discrimination, airline officials caved. Now they will allow really fat people needing two seats to pay for only one. If a second adjoining seat isn’t available, the fat passenger will still be able to…

The founder of a nationwide organization combating gun violence called Sunday for Maine’s presumptive U.S. Senate Democrat candidate to leave the race. Shannon Watts, who founded Moms Demand Action, issued her statement after Graham Platner’s wife was seemingly forced into making a hostage video defending her husband’s alleged extramarital sexting. “I have incredible empathy for a woman who’s just had a miscarriage having to make a video defending her husband’s infidelities,” Watts wrote on X. Watts added that “a man so damaged by combat – according to him and his family – that he’s said and done destructive things for…

What with the day-to-day embarrassing surprises afflicting Maine’s leading Democrat Senate candidate, Graham Platner could eventually decide to drop out, says a leading political ethicist. “Per Maine law, Platner can quit after he is nominated without providing a reason prior to 5 p.m. on the second Monday in July,” writes Henry Olsen on X. “The state party then names a replacement prior to 5 p.m. on the fourth Monday in July.” https://twitter.com/henryolsenEPPC/status/2060821361300545760?s=20 Platner is on the Democrat primary ballot for the upcoming June 9 election, along with David Costello. Democrat two-term-limited Gov. Janet Mills is also on the ballot, despite…

“Joe you did such a great job, you answered every question.” – Jill Biden on stage knowingly lying to her husband and to the public after disastrous 2024 debate. Jill Biden was clearly not telling the truth in her CBS appearance defending Joe’s possible stroke during his 2024 debate against Trump. That’s the analysis of widely-followed on Facebook body-language-expert and behavior- analyst Tracy Brown. When CBS’ Rita Braver asked the former first lady about her husband’s freezing up during the debate with Trump, Mrs. Biden says she hadn’t ever seen him like that before or since – but at the…

The wife of a U.S. Senate candidate from Maine who sent sex texts to a dozen women says they have “a great marriage.” Amy Gertner made a video Saturday for Democrat Graham Platner’s campaign showing her walking up and down a road in their town of Sullivan. “I wanted to make a statement about my marriage,” Gertner says. “There’s a couple of news articles out there about my marriage.” “We got married in 2023. We have two dogs. And we love each other deeply. https://twitter.com/grahamformaine/status/2060870067189932409?s=20 “So it makes me really angry, disappointed – I find it really shameful that there’s…

Chris Arcand in his latest ‘Red Sox Review’ show promised to keep the nightly analysis on the air despite the record-losing team making it almost moot. If he’s raising the possibility of killing the show, that means he’s not ruling it out. “My heart is broken,” Arcand said in disgust as he signed off Friday night, seemingly earlier than he originally had planned. As the Sox fell beneath rising 10 games below .500, Arcand seemingly tossed in the towel, saying it’s time to jump off the sinking ship. Arcand, who anchors the night EEI desk after Sox games, said the…

Maine Wire editor-in-chief Steve Robinson says the sexy texts won’t amount to a hill of beans for the Democrat golden boy who can do no wrong in the eyes of his sycophants. The wife of the leading Democrat in the U.S. Senate primary found sexual texts to women on his phone, according to a report over the weekend. Amy Gertner allegedly discovered the explicit messages shortly after Graham Platner announced his campaign, The Wall Street Journal said. Gertner, who married Platner in 2024, told the campaign last fall about messages she had found a few months prior. Platner’s wife disclosed…

A number of states nationwide are joining forces with Maine to solve the smallmouth bass invasion. The smallmouth isn’t native to most of the fishing holes in which it is now found. “Smallmouth are one of the most problematic fish in the country,” reports Joe Cermele, fishing editor of Outdoor Life. “Anglers love smallmouth because they smash lures and fight hard,” Cermele says. “But these fish also have a dark side. ”Because smallmouth are so fun to catch, “it’s easy to forget they actually don’t belong in many of the places we catch them,” he said. “Despite our general love…

If you’ve got an unopened can of Schlitz on the kitchen shelf, hire a Brink’s guard – it’s now a collector’s item. “The beer that made Milwaukee famous,” as a longtime TV commercial went, is going bottoms up. Wisconsin Brewing Co. and Milwaukee Brat House are planning farewell events for the beer later this month. What now turns out to have been the largest Schlitz going-away party was the most-recent national GOP convention in Milwaukee, which Schlitz hosted. Wisconsin Brewing released its final batch on May 23. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, based in Milwaukee and founded in 1849, was once…

An employee of the senior care facility where Robert Fuller, 87, was killed has been deemed not competent to stand trial for his murder, I95rocks.com reports. Maurquise James, 22, of Baltimore, Maryland, worked at the Cogir Potomac Senior Living Facility in Potomac, Maryland, where Maine millionaire Robert Fuller lived. Fuller was found dead three months ago in his apartment after being shot in the head while he slept. His roommate told investigators that a med tech had given Fuller his medications on February 13, as always, but returned later to ask if the meds had kicked in, which was not…

There’s Patagonia, the famous outdoor clothier, and then there’s Pattie Gonia, a dragster who enjoys poking fun at the former. The clothier decided to put its foot down and filed a $1 lawsuit against poor Pattie, according to The Guardian. Pattie is crying foul, claiming the clothing giant is “trying to erase an activist.” Patagonia, which takes its name from an enormous geographical region spanning Argentina and Chile, filed its trademark infringement lawsuit against Pattie in Los Angeles federal court. The company, which is suing Wiley for a “nominal” $1 in damages plus legal fees, said it took action after…

Almost all of Florida’s elected Democratic National Committee members are condemning U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s decision to run for reelection in a district previously drawn to ensure black voters’ representation but targeted for redistricting by Gov. Ron DeSantis this year. “Our party cannot credibly denounce the dismantling of black political power by Republicans while treating one of Florida’s few remaining majority-black districts as a political opportunity for an incumbent seeking a safer seat,” a group of ten elected Florida DNC members wrote in a statement released Tuesday as reported by the Miami Herald. All but two of the party’s…

Just three days after Claude Lemieux carried the torch in Montreal’s Bell Centre before the Canadiens took on the Hurricanes in Game 3 of the NHL’s Eastern Conference finals on Monday, he killed himself, TMZ reports. Lemieux, 60, was found hanging by his son at Andros Home, a furniture store owned by his family in Lake Park, Florida, the outlet says. The NHL Alumni Association announced the four-time Stanley Cup-winning forward’s death on Thursday. Lemieux, who retired in 2009, played for four Stanley Cup-winning teams in his legendary career on the ice. He was one of 11 players to win…

McLoons Lobster Shack on Spruce Head began literally as nothing but a shack. It was used as a wholesale lobster-buying station for McLoons Lobster on Spruce Head, an island in South Thomaston just east of Rockland. “But in 2012 – at the suggestion of former wharf manager Bob Woodbury – Bree Birns, one of the family members behind the wholesale business, transformed the empty shack into a small, centrally located spot for locals, boaters, and travelers to pick up fresh, expertly made lobster rolls,” says Sarah Blumert of Mashed.com. “When they looked for the best lobster roll in Maine, they…

Maine Public Broadcasting Network ran a national story Wednesday on the layoffs, not so much as even mentioning whether its own $2.5 million annual cut will result in job losses. Facing loss of taxpayer funding, NPR management slashed its workforce Wednesday, never addressing the root cause of the financial crisis – one-sided reporting favoring Democrats. The public-broadcast network is up against loss of government subsidies, thanks to Republican lawmakers who put their foot down a year ago. After Congress, led by President Trump, dropped taxpayer funding the leftist network’s stations nationwide went into panic. But though they realized the fat…

A death certificate shows that a young race-car driver had pneumonia for “days to weeks” before complications killed him. Kyle Busch’s untreated bacterial infection caused sepsis, leading to blood clots that choked his vital organs. Busch then dealt with hemorrhagic shock, which caused internal and external blood loss, and his death on May 21, according to the New York Post, quoting Us Weekly. Rumblings of problems with Busch began the week earlier, when the driver appeared unwell on May 15, following his win in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ECOSAVE 200 at Dover Motor Speedway. He was hospitalized on May…

Nothing says ‘I’ve got a secret’ better than a tease like ‘my husband the president had a stroke but I kept from the American public.’ Former first lady Jill Biden said that’s what she thought happened to Joe – a stroke – when he froze then mumbled gibberish during a debate with former President Trump. Now she tells us – to kick off her book tour. Funny how all during his presidency she kept telling everyone how spry Joe was, despite the sentient among us who knew otherwise. Mrs. Biden now says she was “frightened” by her husband’s 2024 debate…

Mike Vrabel skated through what was supposed to be a full-blown news conference Wednesday as not one alleged reporter asked one tough question. Podcaster Tony Farmer, who has been leading the nation’s media in aggressively covering Vrabel’s affair with ex-NFL reporter Dianna Russini, wasn’t surprised by the pathetic lack of journalistic curiosity. Farmer arguably is the only reporter in sight who has asked real questions to try to get to the bottom of the extramarital relationship. He posted a sample of what is sarcastically called the “toughest questions Pats Coach Mike Vrabel was asked Wednesday by a room full of…

JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg, who’s been touting his alleged opposition to the U.S. aiding Israel with weapons, now all of a sudden has pivoted. Either that or Schlossberg has decided the only way to win a NYC congressional seat is to court Jewish voters by lying about how he really feels. “The Kennedy scion has declared on Instagram that he supports ‘no weapons to Israel,’” reports Politico. “His team says he’s the ‘only candidate’ seeking to block ‘bombs and bulldozers’ to the country.” Moreover, Schlossberg has harshly criticized two of his opponents for purportedly believing in unconditional military support for…

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…