Maine's shellfish harvesters are caught up in climate-related closures (abc17news.com) — Shellfish harvesters across Maine, including an oyster farm based in Freeport’s Casco Bay, are losing significant income as heavier rains trigger more frequent water-quality closures. The story explains how climate-driven rainfall, pollution, and limited testing are reshaping clamming and aquaculture, and highlights local efforts to upgrade septic and sewer systems to keep vital harvesting areas open.
Midcoast Now - An estimated 700 protesters, made up largely of Midcoast high school students, gathered on the Sagadahoc Bridge in Bath on Monday to protest a nationwide surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity. Students from Morse High School, Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham, Brunswick High School, Freeport schools and Lincoln Academy in Newcastle participated, along with non-student demonstrators from several Sagadahoc County groups.
“We’re part of the generation, especially high schoolers, [who] are getting to the age where we can vote,” said Freeport High School junior Maddie Kryzak. “[We’re] helping the community get together and just demonstrating the fact that we have power.”
From the Press Herald
Several groups tracking immigration enforcement in Maine say that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that started last month appears to have subsided, but arrests are still happening and the effects of the surge are lasting. “The operation is still here just like it always has been,” said Portland City Councilor Pious Ali, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ghana in 2000. “The fear is going to be here for a long time.”
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During her State of the State address last week, Gov. Janet Mills called for a statewide ban on cellphones during school days. Specifically, Mills called for a bell-to-bell ban, an especially strict phone policy where students must surrender or secure their devices at the start of the school day and cannot access them again until after the last bell. Maine would join more than 20 states that ban cellphones for the entire school day.
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The food pyramid is back — and flipped upside-down. The Trump administration rolled out new dietary guidelines earlier this month, including some advice that counters longstanding nutrition research, and Maine nutrition experts have mixed feelings about the changes. It’s a reversal of priorities that Maine dieticians and nutrition authorities say could be problematic, maybe even dangerous, and might set Americans up to fail. |
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