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Our guide to researching nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Transitioning an older loved one into a nursing home or assisted living facility is difficult, especially when you’re trying to figure out whether a facility will be safe and meet their needs. Click the image to read this Maine Monitor story by Rose Lundy.

The Maine Monitor brings you free-to-read original investigative and in-depth reporting each week on our website and email newsletters. In addition to highlighting our original stories, in Maine's Daily Digest we share a curated snapshot of the day's significant news to keep you in touch with what's happening today in Maine. While The Maine Monitor does not place its content behind paywalls, some newsrooms we link to in this newsletter may. We encourage you to consider supporting these local Maine newsrooms.

Golden co-sponsors bill aimed at lowering health insurance rates | Maine Public

Maine Capitol Police Chief previously disciplined before August assault arrest | WGME

Some Portland business owners question if city is still business-friendly | WGME

Maine lawmaker charged with illegally campaigning inside her town’s polling place | Bangor Daily News

Maine group adapts as Trump bars NGOs from registering voters at naturalization events | Maine Public

Aroostook nurses’ strike unnecessary, hospital CEO says | Bangor Daily News

Is Maine approaching, or already in, a recession? | Portland Press Herald

Pontoon boat in deadly Flagstaff Lake incident is subject of recall | Sun Journal

Drop in state jail funds affects Aroostook County tax bills | WABI

A Maine compost operation heavily contaminated by PFAS is closing | Bangor Daily News

Maine to increase concealed handgun permit fees this month | News Center Maine

Bangor recouped $9K in unpaid parking tickets after threatening to use the ‘Barnacle’ | Bangor Daily News

Join The Maine Monitor at its next listening tour stops! Our newsroom will be at the Rumford Public Library on September 10th from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and at the Katahdin Higher Education Center on September 11th from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, which publishes The Maine Monitor, welcomed four additions to the nonprofit news organization’s board of directors this month.

The new board members are Lisa Jones of Portland, Frank Bragg of Bangor, Alexandra Harriman of Portland and Amy Lamb of Brunswick. Read more about them.

Thanks for allowing me to provide you with a look at today's news. We'll be back with more tomorrow.

this edition was curated by george harvey

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