Mainers on social media are voicing their acute disapproval of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) in response to a Monday hiring ad posted on Facebook after a former game warden revealed the department’s left-wing agenda. [RELATED: Former Game Warden Calls Out the Political Agenda Taking Hold of Maine’s Fish & Wildlife Service…] “My son wants to be a game warden but I told him no one wants to work in that hostile…

A book about the difficulties of adolescence has just been voted one of the top books ever written.Stephen Chbosky wrote the highly popular “Perks of Being a Wallflower” in 1999 but it’s getting raves still today.Y Entertainment reports the novel won a top cite from the website Goodreads as among the “Best Books Ever.”The recognition “reflects its enduring significance and emotional impact,” said Y reporter Lila Parks.The book’s “honest and relatable portrayal of adolescence, identity…

A Chinese national living in California pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a multi-faceted wire fraud conspiracy that defrauded over 40 elderly victims across multiple states. [RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Sanford Police Execute Search Warrant at Chinese Spa with Federal Assistance As Part of Sex Trafficking investigation…] Danxiu Wang, 30, of China, residing in San Gabriel, California, defrauded her victims of over $1.2 million. According to court records, the case stemmed from an FBI investigation into a call-center…

UNITED STATES — Five more future feeding defendants pleaded guilty this week in one of the largest fraud investigations in Minnesota history following the theft of $14.6 million dollars in federal funds intended for child nutrition programs. The developments come shortly after a recent federal raid in Lewiston, Maine revealed millions of dollars tied to interpreter billing, tax fraud, and MaineCare fraud, as outlined by The Maine Wire. The guilty pleas announced on Friday by…

The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) arrested three people, including a New Jersey man, and executed warrants in Baileyville and Calais following a week-long investigation into a motel-based drug operation. [RELATED: Vassalboro Man Busted with 2,000 Grams of Cocaine Following Maine DEA Investigation…] On Monday, the MDEA executed a search warrant at a Baileyville motel following a week-long surveillance operation into suspected drug trafficking activities. During the surveillance operation, agents allegedly witnessed activity in one…

PORTLAND, Maine — More than a dozen residents at Portland Center for Assisted Living say they have been living with what they describe as a year-long bed bug problem, allegations flatly denied by facility representatives, as broader questions intensify about Maine’s oversight of assisted living and home health care providers. The Maine Wire visited the facility Thursday after receiving multiple tips as part of an ongoing investigation into health care facilities across the state. Residents…

Let’s be clear: the collapse of Gateway Communities did not come out of nowhere.It happened on Janet Mills’ watch, after years of warnings, known overbilling, and willful state inaction. Now, 30 employees have been furloughed, told to apply for unemployment, and effectively discarded after the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) finally shut off the taxpayer spigot. The workers are furious and they should be. Because the state knew. And it did nothing.…

Conservative activist Nicholas Blanchard, known to many online Mainers as “Corn Pop”, is pushing ahead with a bid for the Augusta School Committee even as he challenges his recent arrest and the sudden suspension of his Facebook account. Blanchard has become a prominent figure in local education battles, frequently confronting Augusta school officials over parental-rights issues and student-policy decisions. His organizing efforts have included a petition to remove the Cony Middle and High School principal and…

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner drew nearly 800 people to a town hall in Biddeford on Wednesday night, delivering an aggressive, populist message that targeted President Donald Trump (R), Sen. Susan Collins (R), corporate power, and the political establishment in both parties. Campaign staff said more than 1,200 people RSVP’d for the event at Biddeford Middle School. Platner, who is challenging Gov. Janet Mills (D) from the left in the Democratic primary, leaned heavily into…

A tough Sanford woman is celebrating a naked loss in a fourth try at $100,000 on Discovery Channel’s top-rated survivor show. “I was mere seconds from winning,” Cheeny Plante told viewers during her final on-air interview on the episode. But by her own standards, Plante did emerge from the show a winner. For starters, she knew she had made her mother proud back home in Sanford, Maine. “My mom told me to kick ass and…

Lawmakers have voted this week to restructure the Maine’s income tax brackets to impose a higher tax rate on the state’s highest earners while simultaneously expanding eligibility for the lower brackets. LD 229 — An Act to Bring Fairness in Income Taxes to Maine Families by Adjusting the Tax Brackets and Tax Rates — was sponsored by Rep. Ann Higgins Matlack (D-St. George). The changes included in this bill would take effect for the tax…

A joint operation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday at two locations in Roque Bluffs and Centerville led to the arrests on drug-related charges of 11 individuals from the local area, New York state, and the Dominican Republic, Maine’s statewide drug task force said in a statement. The Maine State Police Tactical Team and various federal law enforcement agencies assisted with the raids at 75 Duck…

Starting this month, the state of Maine has begun rolling out new license plates featuring a nod to the 1901 flag—a green pine and North Star—or a no-fuss blue-and-white design. It’s all part of an initiative spearheaded by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D), who’s looking to have the license plate transformation completed by July 2026, just after she’ll face off in the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial primary. While online commenters have debated the various aesthetic…

An illegal immigrant is facing deportation after he was caught allegedly scamming an elderly woman in Hermon with an aggressive scheme involving numerous escalating demands and multiple visits to her house. [RELATED: Massachusetts Manners? Man Arrested for Attacking New Hampshire State Troopers…] The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department received a report on February 3 that scammers repeatedly called an elderly Hermon woman, claiming that her bank account was compromised and demanding that she withdraw the funds.…

Former Scarborough Schools Superintendent Julie R. Kukenberger has another acrimonious school departure in her wake as she leaves her job with the Melrose, Mass. public schools. “The School Committee has been notified that Superintendent Julie Kukenberger will not seek a successor contract with the Melrose Public Schools beyond the current year,” Melrose School Committee Chair Jen McAndrew wrote in a letter to fellow committee members Tuesday. Kukenberger, who has worked in education since 2005, was…