Nicole Ogrysko
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 Mills administration said Tuesday that construction will begin soon on 105 new homes in six communities through the state's rural affordable rental housing program, but more housing are needed.
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Maine has nearly 7,000 farms remaining, the fewest in at least 25 years, according to the latest U.S. Agricultural Census. The state lost more than 560 farms over a five-year period that ended in 2022.
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Advocates for the measure say they believe the law could reduce the stigma associated with manufactured and mobile homes and allow more Mainers to achieve homeownership for the first time.
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Students are preparing to travel anywhere from Maine to northern New York to launch the balloon, depending on weather and wind conditions on the morning of April 8.
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A new bill seeks to roll back sand dune protections as a way to allow construction of a proposed wind port project on Sears Island.
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The area covers 2 million acres offshore from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, ranging anywhere from 23 to 92 miles off the coast.
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Scientists, researchers and agriculture specialists presented a new assessment of climate change in Maine to members of the Climate Council Thursday. The council will use the projections to inform a new, four-year plan and recommendations, which is due near the end of the year.
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Environmental groups made one last call to state regulators to approve a controversial zero emissions proposal. But some state lawmakers believe it should be up to the Legislature to weigh in on these rules.
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Bar Harbor voters approved an ordinance two years ago that places a cap on the number of cruise ship passengers to 1,000 per day.
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York County officials want to use the dredge that it purchased nearly two years ago to help nearby towns replenish their beaches with sand and restore coastal dunes that eroded during the January storms.