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Today's photo of the day: Great Cove, Brooklin by Michael Percy

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His family has harvested alewives at the same Maine stream for a century

Steve Bodge operates an alewife harvesting operation in Woolwich, and splits profits fifty-fifty with the town. Now 78, he has recruited his daughter to help.

Read this Maine Monitor story by Troy R. Bennett

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Red flag hearing offers preview of Maine’s looming referendum battle over gun rights | Portland Press Herald

Gov. Mills signs farmworker minimum wage increase into law | Maine Public

Proposal to protect children from online harassment and ‘doxxing’ advanced by Maine lawmakers | Portland Press Herald

Owen McCarthy enters Republican primary for Maine governor | News Center Maine

Brunswick Democrat announces campaign for Susan Collins’ senate seat | Portland Press Herald

Trial set for April 2026 in Maine dispute over trans athletes in girls' sports | WGME

Central Maine Healthcare launches temporary website amid cyber breach | WGME

Despite fears, most Maine districts OK school budgets, with some exceptions | Portland Press Herald

Embden rejects proposal to explore leaving school district | The Maine Monitor

Dover-Foxcroft voters overwhelmingly reject spending $9M to repair historic dam | Bangor Daily News   (Maine Monitor context: Dover-Foxcroft stares down massive tax hike to maintain ailing dam)

School renovation project approved in Cape Elizabeth | WGME   (Maine Monitor context: Why is building and renovating schools so expensive?)

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