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Houlton Regional Hospital will shut down its labor and delivery services next month, leaving Aroostook County women with fewer places to give birth. | Bangor Daily News
MDI nurses hosted a town hall in wake of OB closure announcement, urging community members to sign a letter that aims to strengthen the hospital’s obstetrics department rather than closing it. | Mount Desert Islander (Maine Monitor context: Maine’s maternity care crisis.)
As the Real ID deadline approaches, Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicle branches are seeing longer wait times | Maine Public
The Trump administration has laid off the entire staff of a $4.1 billion program that helps millions of low-income households pay for heat during the winter. | Bangor Daily News
ICYMI: Maine research organizations face uncertainty as Trump administration vows to cut “wasteful spending.” | The Maine Monitor
Calais businesses grapple with less Canadian foot traffic following President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on certain Canadian imports. | Bangor Daily News
It's not just tariffs; broad economic uncertainty could weigh on Maine's lobster industry. | Maine Public
Healthy Harvesters, a wellness program designed for fishermen, has been launched by the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety, Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries and the town of Stonington. | Ellsworth American
Maine dairy farmers ask state to fully fund supplemental payments program for milk production. | Maine Public
Officials have clashed over Sheriff's Office spending, which has grown by over a million dollars during the past 10 years. | Mount Desert Islander
The presence of emerald ash borer on Mount Desert Island outside of the previously regulated area has been confirmed by the Maine Forest Service Forest Health and Monitoring Division, according to a recent announcement by Maine State Forester Patty Cormier. | Ellsworth American
The Town of Bar Harbor Warrant Committee weighed in on the comprehensive plan and several land use ordinance amendments at a meeting on Monday with the committee as a whole providing its stamp of approval to the remaining items up for a vote in June. | Mount Desert Islander
Three years after a dramatic fire destroyed a building at the Bluenose Inn in Bar Harbor, the owner has rebuilt it with a new design and plans to open it for guests this summer. | Bangor Daily News
The Ellsworth School Department is proposing a $1 million increase to its total local appropriation budget, up 6.94% from last year, for a total draft local appropriated budget of $15.7 million. | Ellsworth American
Snowmobile and ATV trails that were so devastated by the 500-year storms more than a year ago could be repaired with money from the $30 million bond voters approved in November. | Bangor Daily News
A Cherryfield postal employee gets probation for theft of public money and was ordered to pay $17,130.22 in restitution. | Ellsworth American
The weather-battered Maine State seal that has adorned the brick facade of City Hall for the past 90 years has deteriorated beyond repair, city officials say, and plans are in the works to potentially replace the historic piece with a 3D-printed replica. | Ellsworth American
A Hancock County Jail inmate was charged with felony assault March 31 after he allegedly assaulted a medical care provider in the emergency room at Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital. | Ellsworth American
Town of Franklin residents approved an $803,488 budget and also voted to enact a Solar Facilities Moratorium Ordinance. | Ellsworth American
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