Press Herald
- Cannabis advocates are accusing people collecting signatures for a possible citizens initiative to end the state's recreational marijuana program of misrepresenting the initiative. Circulators are accused of telling voters the initiative would improve the quality of cannabis sold in stores, when the 15-page proposal — pushed by Mainers for a Safe and Healthy Future — would instead end all recreational sales and home-growing operations in 2028
- The Trump administration said Tuesday it is ending the Temporary Protected Status program for Somali immigrants, a move that will likely face court challenges and could affect some of the several thousand Somalis living in Maine. It was not immediately clear how many Somali nationals in Maine would be impacted. The state’s Somali population is approximately 3,000, most of whom live in Lewiston and Androscoggin County.
Maine’s highest court agreed Tuesday that a family has the right to access a neighbor’s beachfront property in a Phippsburg subdivision. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruling comes more than three years after Richard and Sheila Tappen sued their neighbors, Clark Hill and his family, for allegedly encroaching on property that the Tappens had bought from a neighbor in the Popham Beach Estates subdivision through a release deed. The Hills filed a counterclaim to the lawsuit, arguing that they and their guests enjoyed an “implied easement” because of how long their family had been using the neighborhood beach. A Business and Consumer Docket judge ruled in November 2024 that the Hill family could access the beach for recreational purposes.
- Eliot Cutler turns himself in after allegedly violating release conditions again.