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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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. -
The town has a proposal to sell 94 acres off Main Street to the online retailer. Amazon would pay $4 million to purchase the land.
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Industry experts and harvesters said the crop was doing OK until recent weeks, when high temperatures and dry conditions settled over most of the state. -
The proposal called for the removal of hundreds of buoys in New England waters, including nearly 150 in the Gulf of Maine. -
International border crossings into Maine dipped 28% in July compared with last year. -
The measure will put a controversial proposal from concert promotion giant Live Nation and a local developer on hold, but the moratorium does not go into effect until Sept. 10. -
The moratorium, which city councilors have twice delayed, would pause the development of music venues with a capacity for 2,000 people or more, including a controversial project spearheaded by a local developer Mile Marker Investments and concert promotion giant Live Nation. -
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and 50 other attorneys general have sent warning letters to 37 voice service providers, demanding that they take action now to stop illegal robocalls from being routed through their networks.
