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Ben Bellevue starts at 5 a.m. in Terlingua’s smokehouse to prep briskets that cook 12+ hours, and Rwanda Bean head roaster Kyle Mitchell arrives around 5 a.m. at Thompson's Point to roast beans for local cafés & Whole Foods.

Portsmouth-based Nomad Exploration Team announced Tuesday it found the WWII SS Cornwallis about 10 miles southwest of Mount Desert Rock; the freighter sank Dec.

3, 1944 with 43 killed and now rests about 400 feet below the surface, and the team will make annual dives to document the wreck.

The Columbia, an 88-foot scalloping boat wrecked off Loud's Island, will be removed in November.

Maine received almost $750,000 from NOAA to remove four large derelict boats because abandoned vessels pose ecological and navigation hazards and towns lack budgets for costly extractions.

About 300 people sampled 14 entries at the Maine Bagel-Off on Saturday, Oct.

24 at the Maine Tasting Center in Wiscasset, where Blue House won the people’s choice and Scratch won the judges’ award, and both used Maine-grown grains.

A study using 40 years of satellite imagery found gradual alpine greening on Mount Katahdin, with trees spreading into areas once above the tree line and smaller alpine zones likely to shrink.

Baxter State Park says rare alpine plants face greater risk and asks visitors to stay on marked trails.

Maine has no statewide cap on rent increases; landlords must give 75 days' written notice for increases of 10% or more, 45 days for smaller hikes, and 90 days for mobile-home lot rent, and tenants can recover rent, interest, and attorney fees if rules are broken.

Maine DEP is recommending a year-long fenceline step out VOC study and asks South Portland leaders to approve up to 12 monitors (300 to 900 feet from the South Portland Terminal) and 16 monitors near the CITGO terminal; officials will discuss next steps at a city council workshop.

Maine Audubon released Tuesday the 43rd annual July loon count showing 2,770 adults and 276 chicks in southern Maine, down from 3,174 adults and 568 chicks in 2025 but still about double 1983 levels, and volunteers surveyed 438 lakes while counting loons on 125 northern lakes.