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 ruling reinstates about $2.5 million that supported eight AmeriCorps projects around Maine and about 120 service members. -
Officials with the Casco Bay Island Transit District said the increases are needed to bridge a shortfall in annual revenues. Federal grants usually cover the shortfall, but officials said the funds are no longer reliable. -
Ozone levels will be considered "unhealthy for sensitive groups" along the coast from Kittery through Acadia National Park on Wednesday and Thursday.
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The list included the city of Portland and Cumberland and Hancock counties. The Trump administration has not said whether jurisdictions on the list posted last week would be still be notified. -
The city of Portland and Cumberland and Hancock Counties were among the 500 so-called "sanctuary jurisdictions" around the country put on notice by the Department of Homeland Security this week. The Trump administration believes these cities and counties are "obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws."
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The Gulf of Maine will again experience colder than normal deep-water temperatures, according to a new forecast and modeling from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. -
A group of residents at a mobile home park in Gorham are trying to become the latest cooperative to successfully purchase their community in the face of an offer from an out-of-state investment firm. Their situation has prompted calls for more protections intended to help mobile home park residents more easily buy their own communities. -
The University of Maine study relied on observations and contributions from local shellfish harvesters. -
A block in the jet stream over Greenland is responsible for recent slow-moving rain events and clouds that linger for days, the National Weather Service said. -
The state began replacing the chickadee plates with new pine tree license plates May 1.
