Callie Ferguson

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Callie Ferguson

More than 40 years of pulling lobster traps ruined John Cotton’s shoulders. The pain he feels from decades in Maine’s most iconic fishery now limits the amount of time he can spend on his latest endeavor, running a small oyster farm in Port Clyde. One of the reasons Cotton, 64, started Ice House Oysters in 2016 was to stay working on the water without hiring any staff, after he found it difficult to find reliable help on his lobster boat.

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Callie Ferguson

President Donald Trump’s administration has paused, terminated or threatened to withhold nearly $50 million in funding to Maine’s university system, primarily affecting programs at the flagship campus in Orono, according to a notice circulated internally on Wednesday. Federal funding freezes and cuts to the University of Maine were a major storyline early in Gov.

2 weeks ago | themainemonitor.org | Callie Ferguson

This story appears as part of a collaboration between The Maine Monitor and Maine Focus, the investigative team of the Bangor Daily News, a partnership to strengthen investigative journalism in Maine. Read more about the partnership. The sun had just begun to rise over the Maine Turnpike when Trooper James Anstett noticed a black Chrysler minivan with Massachusetts plates going too fast and staying too long in the left lane. He decided to pull the van over.

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Callie Ferguson

The sun had just begun to rise over the Maine Turnpike when Trooper James Anstett noticed a black Chrysler minivan with Massachusetts plates going too fast and staying too long in the left lane. He decided to pull the van over. Behind the wheel, he discovered a dark-haired man who didn’t speak English and a teenage boy in the passenger seat. Anstett asked for the driver’s valid Maine license, according to a report he later wrote about the stop. The man didn’t have one.

1 month ago | bangordailynews.com | Callie Ferguson

A lawmaker who has generally collaborated with Gov. Janet Mills on juvenile justice reform has proposed an idea to transform Maine’s only youth prison into a more treatment-focused facility for adolescents in the juvenile justice system. The bill from Rep. Michael Brennan, D-Portland, is a novel idea that revives a dormant effort to stop using Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland in its current form.