Thank you Maine for being so wonderful. Exactly what we all needed.🐾🦞🌅

Hi! I recently started reading Stephen King and I'm loving it. I'm not from the United States, I'm from latam, and I was wondering: how big and/or important was his cultural impact on Maine? Especially for those of you who live there. In my perception, he's an icon of the state (and an icon in American literature in general, he revolutionized the genre. Plus he's good at writing anything!). So I'm just curious.

News center Maine has the article, I believe linking it got my first post removed.

I hope a lot of our people take time to give input on this, I know I will be voicing my opinion strongly. Making this to inform people, not start a debate.

Dear Rep. Laurel Libby,

Since you want to complain about those $300 "bribe" checks going to dead people, Im going to post a comment that my Mom wrote on one of your Facebook posts from earlier today that you seem to have "missed", while responding to others agreeing with you. My Mom has done accounting work for 40 years now.

"My mother died 9/30/25. My father filed a joint state tax return because legally he was entitled to do so. In turn this qualified both of my parents to receive this special refund. My father is 90 years old and lives on a fixed income. The extra $300 made out to my mother's estate helped my father pay some utility bills. People need to stop being angry and search the rules and guidelines."

This might seem random, but I wanted to share this to Reddit too so more people learn about this situation. Even if a check is made out to someone's estate, it doesnt mean its being thrown away or stolen. My 90 year old widowed Grandfather deserves the basic assistance that your privileged ass scoffs at.

Preliminary counts for enrollment across Maine’s seven public universities and law school show that student enrollment could exceed 28,000 this school year, continuing an upward trend in enrollment driven by online learners.

Online learners have fueled enrollment growth at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, which preliminary numbers show is now the third biggest public university.

The enrollment boost comes as higher education institutions across the nation face looming enrollment cliffs due to declines in the number of students enrolling in college after high school and a shrinking number of students graduating high school.

Read this story on The Maine Monitor's website.

Is there any way to confirm the origin of meat at Hannys? Or is it roulette?

Remote for scale, the sheets are roughly 2x3'

I moved to Eliot from Miami in April. I had a 2014 Ford Fusion and was making $28 an hour as a mason tender. I was in line to become a Mason/equipment operator where Id make $35 an hour. In July, I started to notice a rod knock, a few days later the engine was completely cooked. I had to leave the company I was at because the job sites could sometimes be 60 miles away.

I bought an E-Bike and was fortunate enough to find a job as a line cook for $20 an hour. Almost once a week, my old boss messages me asking when I can come back to work, he said that they would pay me $30 an hour when I find a vehicle.

I want to get back to my old comapny sooner than later. Last year I decided to give masonry an honest shot and I fell in love with it. I spent all my 20s and the first two years of my 30s bouncing from job to job, never finding anything that would stick. For a few week I was the tender for the 2 of the owners of the company, the one guy is in his mid 70s and a multi-millionaire, the other guy in his late 60s. I'm a 33 year old loser and they put themselves on the same level as me and worked side by side with the people they employ. The guy in his mid 60s, i worked with for a week before I found out he owned the company. The whole time I was working with him, he treated me like another dude, giving me advice, cracking jokes, making the days enjoyable. Those were the most honorable actions I've ever seen from 2 bosses and I decided that this is the company I want to stick with long term.

So my question is, does anyone close to Eliot/Kittery have a reliable vehicle they can help sell me for around $2,500? I can't finance, I have 3 repossessions on my credit. I also don't have any friends in the area, so maybe we can grab a beer and joint and talk sports or women or whatever.

Please, comment or shoot me a message, I'd love to connect or be pointed in the right direction. Making $1600 more a month is something I'm dead set on doing and I could use a little community help to facilitate that.

Thanks everyone!

Anyone know what happened to her? I haven't seen her in months. Usually I think "hmm haven't seen her in awhile" she pops up somewhere within the next couple days.

Maine’s extreme risk protection order law, or red flag law, was passed via ballot referendum last fall, making Maine only the second state in the country to enact such a law through citizen action.

The law allows both law enforcement and close friends or family members to directly petition the courts to take weapons away from a person at risk of harm to themselves or others.

A total of eight red flag orders have been filed since the law went into effect six months ago, three by law enforcement and five by family members. Law enforcement officers are continuing to favor the pre-existing yellow flag law, which passed in 2020 but saw little use before the mass shooting in Lewiston in 2023. 

Read this story on The Maine Monitor's website.

A friend is doing a journalism class thesis on The Maine Wire and whether its reporting practices sometimes conflict with traditional journalism ethics.
She’s looking for as many examples as possible involving questionable sourcing, misleading headlines, missing context, privacy concerns, inflammatory framing, conflicts of interest, or treatment of vulnerable communities.

Comment or DM me. TY!

MIAMI BLUES (1990)

Starring Alec Baldwin

WEDNESDAY September 2nd 7PM

SATURDAY September 5th 2PM / 7PM

For nine days this August, an entrepreneur going by “Cyberleek” dripped stolen footage of the year's most anticipated video game onto the internet, one clip at a time. Each leak carried a QR code and the ticker for a cryptocurrency they’d minted for the occasion. Buy the coin, they suggested, and more leaks would follow. They wrapped the enterprise in a manifesto about corporate greed and the death of physical media. Then, hours before the studio's big tickertape reveal, they sold their entire position for a quarter of a million dollars, the coin cratered, and they vanished.

We are, of course, living in the golden age of such grifts. Cyberleek didn't invent it, they were simply aping the national style at modest scale: when the head of state runs a series of rug pulls from the Resolute Desk, marching to his drumbeat is just showing initiative.

Alec Baldwin's Junior Frenger, in his first leading role, is a man who understands that in America a role is as good as a self. He steals Fred Ward’s gun and badge and then simply becomes a cop — fighting crime, shaking down dealers, playing house with Jennifer Jason Leigh in a rented bungalow of Jiffy Pop domesticity. Junior’s discovered that pretending is the only game anyone is playing, and the rules are made of Swiss cheese when you’re the main character.

Which brings us to what Cyberleek actually stole: Grand Theft Auto VI, the most lucrative entertainment property of the century. The series has always been sharp social commentary downstream from films like Falling Down, Repo Man, Something Wild… the whole strain of sunburned American black comedy where the joke is that the country itself is the crime scene. The games invite you to enjoy taking whatever isn't nailed down, and the enjoyment is the indictment. Which is to say: not unlike Miami Blues.

George Armitage got there in 1990, thirteen years before the first game. He makes you like Junior despite his awfulness, and then declines to tell you how to feel about it. The film never adjudicates. It just lets Baldwin radiate (boy howdy does he radiate) and leaves you holding your own delight — and that delight is the whole enchilada: comedy and violence in the same microwave entrée, each bite an absolutely delicious and prescient satire

I love the things that Martha Ballard is remembered for, that being said... her recently unveiled memorial is atrocious. The choice of concrete as a medium, the... "rustic" craftsmanship... It's an eyesore that I hope was privately funded, and not funded by our tax dollars.

What are everyone’s plans for heating oil this upcoming winter? Dead River’s price lock contract option went up to $3.99 per gallon. Not sure if I want to lock in at that rate or risk it with price shopping as needed.

Big house built in 1850, last year kept it pretty chilly and used 640 gallons.

Cooke Aquaculture touts the jobs its salmon farms bring to the state, but local critics say the potential costs to their waters, livelihoods and wild Atlantic salmon outweigh the benefits.

I know about Fork Food Lab and have reached out to them, but I was wondering if there were any other options I can check out. I’m in southern Maine and I’m looking for a commercial kitchen to rent for a packaged food business. Any suggestions? I’m in York, and I’m willing to drive an hour or so.

Does anyone know of a restaurant in Maine that has the Monte Cristo sandwich on their menu?

I’m not talking about the Downeaster. NNEPRA seems set on extending to Rockland. I think Maine should launch a second train between Portland and Bangor. My thought is that it would follow the tracks currently being used and upgraded by CSX up to Lewiston, Waterville, then Bangor. This train could drop people off before the Downeaster reaches Portland, from there they can go to Boston or Brunswick. There are already plans to expand Downeaster service to 8 round trips, which could benefit this proposed route. I know this is already served by busses, but so is Portland to Boston, and that shouldn’t be a reason to not create new service. The relocation of Portland station has opened up a great opportunity for rail service and in this state and I believe now is the time to start working on it.