Jules Walkup

Brunswick

Midcoast Reporter at Bangor Daily News

Midcoast Reporter for @bangordailynews, @Report4America | UGA alum ‘22 | former @redandblack, @cnn | they/he | RT & likes ≠ endorsements; views are my own

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A newly expanded midcoast landing will help protect waterfront access

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our other newsletters. A decade after the project was first envisioned, a big expansion of the public landing in the midcoast village of Port Clyde will finally have its grand opening on June 12.
Republican proposal would raise a Maine college’s taxes by millions

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

A small Maine college could take a big hit in the Trump administration’s broader assault on higher education. If a new Republican-led tax increase on college endowments is passed in the U.S. Senate, Bowdoin College in Brunswick could be forced to pay millions more on its nearly $2.6 billion endowment — a tax hike that college officials say would be “punitive” and cut into its ability to offer financial aid and competitive pay for staff.
Bar Harbor’s tourist season starts with a whimper

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

Julie and Bill Ginsler of Raleigh, North Carolina, have been coming to Bar Harbor to visit their nephews for around 20 years. But as the couple meandered through the sunny seaside town on Memorial Day, Julie Ginsler noted that it wasn’t crowded, especially compared with when they visited in the fall.
An election looms in a Maine school district divided over transgender rights

2 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

When Elizabeth Lowell heads to the polls this spring, the 41-year-old Warren woman plans to vote for Julie Swindler, an incumbent seeking re-election to the board of Regional School Unit 40. Lowell supports Swindler for various reasons, including that Swindler supports the Union-based school district’s transgender protections policy that was briefly eliminated last year before the board put it back into place.
Doughnut shop owner says rent increase could mean ‘beginning of its end in Rockland’

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

The owner of Ruckus Donuts posted on Facebook Monday that his landlord unexpectedly raised rent for the shop and that it could mean “the beginning of its end in Rockland.”Todd Bross opened Ruckus Donuts on Main Street in Rockland in 2021, and the shop serves unique brioche-style doughnuts with flavors such as vanilla chai latte and raspberry coconut chip. “Ruckus Donuts is facing an issue that to be honest may be the beginning of its end in Rockland.
Events celebrating the return of alewives to Maine rivers

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

This story first appeared in the Midcoast Update, a newsletter published every Tuesday and Friday. Sign up here to receive stories about the midcoast delivered to your inbox each week, along with our other newsletters. Water rushed over the falls at the Damariscotta Mills fish ladder Monday, creating a cascade too powerful for the alewives to travel. But that didn’t stop veteran alewife watchers and birders from traveling to the midcoast river to see the wildlife in action.
Maine family lost Social Security benefits after clerical mistake

4 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

Since Paula Walton’s husband Max died in June 2024 from liver cancer, she’s been taking care of their 25-year-old son David, who has autism, at their shared home in Madison. She makes him sandwiches with equal amounts of mayonnaise on each bread slice. She makes sure the water temperature is perfect for his showers. The two of them have their disagreements, like every mother and son, but they’re happy. The last few months have put that happiness to the test, though.
FBI investigating alleged theft involving the manager of a Boothbay dump

1 month ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

On the same day that FBI agents investigated a Boothbay-area waste facility earlier this year, its operations manager was suspended from his role without pay because of allegations that he was involved in theft and financial improprieties, according to newly released records. Join Bangor Daily News Subscribe to stay in the know! Pick up a subscription for $1 a week. manager, a is suspend 26 On Thursday Boothbay a Board.
Boothbay-area officials still in the dark about FBI probe of waste station

1 month ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

More than a month after federal law enforcement agents apparently raided the Boothbay-area waste transfer station, officials have yet to share any details about what was investigated. The FBI initially confirmed that it was at the Boothbay Refuse Disposal District’s transfer station on March 26, doing “routine law enforcement activity” along with members of the Boothbay Harbor Police Department. Photos taken by the local newspaper, the Boothbay Register, also showed agents there.
Lawmakers want to force Maine to keep docking ferries overnight on islands

1 month ago | bangordailynews.com | Jules Walkup

Lawmakers along Maine’s coast have introduced a bill that would require the State Ferry Service to berth its vessels on the unbridged islands that it serves off the midcoast and Hancock County. The legislation has intensified a debate that’s been playing out over the last few months since the state Department of Transportation proposed moving away from its decades-old practice of docking ferries overnight on the islands. Instead, the agency aims to berth them on the mainland.