Lori Valigra

1 week ago | bangordailynews.com | Lori Valigra

Kevin Kitchin returned to his hometown of Fairfield in 2018 after 30 years in the U.S. Navy and bought his dream home on 40 acres. Two years later, high levels of forever chemicals were discovered in several areas of the town, including on his property. “Shortly after that the state warned us to not eat deer. That’s why I bought this house, so I can hunt on my own land and do the things I like to do as a Mainer,” he said.

2 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Lori Valigra

A $300 million data center project expected to boost economic development at the former Great Northern Paper Co. mill in Millinocket has been canceled, the site’s redevelopment manager said on Wednesday. Nautilus Data Technologies introduced the planned 60-megawatt data center with great fanfare in 2021, but it did not announce that it had abandoned the effort. The Millinocket data center had been slated to be up and running by the end of 2022, bringing up to 30 jobs to the area.

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Lori Valigra

Maine farmers and brewers want to hold off raising prices for consumers even though they expect the widesweeping tariffs the Trump administration plans to introduce tomorrow to raise their costs of doing business, representatives from those two industries said in a press briefing Tuesday.

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Lori Valigra

Some state agencies are still receiving promised federal funding for climate initiatives in Maine, although others are not, creating an atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty about what the future will bring, members of the Maine Climate Council said in a quarterly update meeting Friday. The Trump administration has put on hold many federal grants awarded to Maine and other states under the Biden administration.

3 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Lori Valigra

Water runoff from contaminated farmlands in central Maine is spreading forever chemicals into rivers and streams whose waters flow into the Kennebec River, new research by Colby College published on Monday found. Because surface waters interconnect and mix, forever chemical pollution may spread far from sites of sludge spreading, according to the paper, published in the March 24 edition of the journal Environmental Research.