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news.yahoo.com —  11+ hour, 5+ min ago

...The organizations, Marine Stewardship Council and Seafood Watch, both cited concerns about risks to rare North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear. Entanglement in gear is one of the biggest threats to the whales.... ...Janet Mills, a Democrat, and its four-member congressional delegation said in a statement that Marine Stewardship Council's decision to suspend its certification of Gulf of Maine lobster came despite years of stewardship and protection of whales by Maine fishermen....

newscentermaine.com —  4+ hour, 8+ min ago

...SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- The Greater Portland Council of Governments is working on a new project that aims to eliminate traffic deaths and injuries by making roadways safer. Last year in Maine, 150 people died and 678 others were seriously injured because of traffic-related crashes.... ...Those measures could make it safer for the driver, pedestrian, motorist, or biker. The overarching goal is to help Maine cities and towns have zero deaths and zero serious injuries from any type of crash....

masslive.com —  12+ hour, 55+ min ago

...Both the Marine Stewardship Council and Seafood Watch, two sustainability organizations, announced recently that they would no longer endorse the lobstering industry in the Gulf of Maine due to the harm caused to the whales.... ..."With fewer than 340 North Atlantic right whales in existence, the species is swimming toward extinction unless things turn around," Virginia Carter, associate of Save America's Wildlife Campaign at Environment America Research & Policy Center, told the Associated Press....

pressherald.com —  10+ hour, 5+ min ago

...Maine State Ballet brings "Nutcracker" back to full glory  Press Herald...

bangordailynews.com —  16+ hour, 34+ min ago

...Judge who ruled in high profile Maine cases retires  Bangor Daily News...

bangordailynews.com —  4+ hour, 20+ min ago

...Judge orders Maine biomass company in bankruptcy to sell assets to pay off debts  Bangor Daily News...

sunjournal.com —  14+ hour, 5+ min ago

...The district's top administrator for 13 years, Webb reportedly passed away on Thanksgiving while in hospice care....

skysports.com —  13+ hour, 35+ min ago

...Bryony Frost is aiming to be fit to partner Frodon at Kempton next month after breaking her collarbone in a fall on Saturday. The rider was aboard Sir Psycho in the Excel Signs Novices" Limited Handicap Chase at Bangor, with the Paul Nicholls-trained runner falling at the second fence.... ...Nicholls confirmed Frost has broken her collarbone, but outlined the rider's desire to team up with her old ally once again in the Ladbrokes King George VI Chase on Boxing Day - a race the pair plundered in 2020....

mainepublic.org —  15+ hour, 6+ min ago

...- On Air Now Playing Maine Public Classical Holiday Stream. Afghan Community of Maine elects growing number of women to leadership roles. For Shamayel Kargar, her path to U.S. began in the mid-1980s, when she and her husband fled Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion.... ...Since retaking power last year, the Taliban has "systemically excluded women and girls from public life," according to the United Nations, restricting women's movement, banning girls from attending school past 6th grade, and barring women from working most jobs, among other restrictions....

bangordailynews.com —  13+ hour, 49+ min ago

...Maine Democrats will take on Janet Mills in uphill gun control push  Bangor Daily News...