Nicole Ogrysko
All Things Considered Host & News ReporterNicole got her start working the 4:00 am modern rock shift for her college radio station. Before joining Maine Public, she spent eight years covering the federal workforce for Federal News Network, an online and radio outlet based in Washington, D.C., where she lived before moving to Maine in 2020. Nicole graduated from Ithaca College with a journalism and politics degree. She grew up outside Baltimore, Maryland, and is (perhaps unfortunately) still an Orioles fan.
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The residents at Friendly Village Mobile Home Park in Gorham made three different offers to purchase the property. All three were rejected, including a $27.5 million offer, according to resident cooperative president Dawn Beaulieu. -
Portland's six-month moratorium on the development of new music venues is in effect through early March. -
At MaineHousing's conference in Bangor Tuesday, State economist Amanda Rector says adding workers will put more pressure on the state' housing inventory.
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The problem started when previous county administrators adopted a policy about five years ago, which allowed surplus funds to be carried over to the next year without first verifying that those balances actually existed.
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The park saw 842,827 visits last month, a 6% year-over-year bump, according to preliminary data from the National Park Service. -
Waterville officials say the moratorium is intended to protect residents through at least April, while a state working group develops a rent stabilization measure for mobile home parks that municipalities around Maine could later adopt. -
The Portland City Council will decide whether to send the measure, which raises the municipal minimum wage gradually over the next three years, to the November ballot. -
Hurricane Erin is making its way up the East Coast. It will not bring rain or even cloud cover but will generate large, powerful waves that make swimming dangerous, according to the National Weather Service. -
The invasive Asian longhorned tick feeds on livestock, wildlife, pets and people, but it's not clear if it carries diseases commonly found on other tick species in Maine. -
It's not clear what the company intends to do with the land. But town officials say if the sale goes through, it will be up to Amazon to design a project and submit it for public feedback and permitting.
