Small city dysfunction / Client-owned utility classes / Bangor’s lack of public restrooms
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Right here’s what we’re speaking about in Maine right this moment.
Extra clerks in small communities throughout Maine have needed to shoulder elevated workloads as city governments grapple with workers shortages.
Nebraska is the nation’s solely state served totally by consumer-owned energy, slightly than investor-owned utilities.
With few public restroom choices, homeless folks in Bangor typically have to search out quiet, hid locations to alleviate themselves.
This yr, guests to the Schoodic Peninsula part of Acadia Nationwide Park may high 354,000 — double what it was simply 9 years in the past.
With a rising variety of Maine-owned facilities promote to out-of-state operators, native meals is disappearing from tried-and-true menus.
“Over time, as many do with their very own secret fishing spots, I developed a way of possession of it, feeling as if it was mine,” BDN Outdoor contributor Chris Sargent writes.
“Sheltered from southwest winds by a outstanding bluff, we launched in calm water on the seashore in Mill Cove,” BDN Outdoor contributor Ron Chase writes.
In different Maine information …
A Bangor 12-year-old is lacking
30-year-old arrested after pictures fired in Bangor
Swimmer dies after being pulled from Rockland Breakwater
Physique of 28-year-old man recovered from Sebago Lake
60-year-old motorcyclist critically injured in Naples crash
UMaine soccer dominated Florida Worldwide College in heartbreaking loss
