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 executive order calls on states to move some unhoused people into treatment, including through involuntary commitment if necessary. It also encourages states and municipalities to eliminate homeless encampments. -
Now, developers will be able to take up to $10 million in Maine Historic Rehabilitation Tax credits within each of the first two years of a project. -
South Portland owns the 24-foot lighthouse, and the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Rotary Club has maintained it for the last three decades. -
A former locomotive engineer said he was nearly impaled during a derailment that occurred in Piscataquis County three years ago. He blames the railroad for ordering freight train operators to run the locomotive between Brownville Junction and Herman after a heavy rain storm.
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A moratorium on new regulations intended to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales is set to expire at the end of 2028. Lobster fishing groups and Rep. Jared Golden are asking Congress to extend it for another decade. -
The project includes 130 one, two and three bedroom condos, plus 26 attached accessory dwelling units that the owners can rent out or use for their own families. -
More than 80 people have applied so far to purchase one of the first two completed homes, according to the non-profit developer Avesta Housing. -
Maine Public operates nearly 30 radio and television transmitters that broadcast emergency alerts from the National Weather Service and other agencies. President and CEO Rick Schneider says Maine Public will continue to maintain that infrastructure. -
The report, from the National Low Income Housing Coalition, calculates what's known as the state's housing wage — the full-time wages that a renter would need to earn to afford a two-bedroom home without paying more than 30% of their income on housing and utilities. -
The flags are being flown at Cedar Beach in Harpswell, after people reported two great white shark sightings east of Bailey Island earlier this week.
