Daniel Kool is the Portland Press Herald's night reporter. A graduate of Boston University, Daniel previously covered city news, transportation and higher education for the Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in GBH News, the Boston Globe Magazine, and Boston University's student newspaper, where he was the city news editor. A midwestern transplant, Daniel lives in Biddeford, where he practices the banjo and theremin.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2024
Bowdoinham Community School to partially close building after finding asbestos
Small amounts were found in the original section of the building, which was built in the 1950s. The district said detected levels are ‘extremely low.’
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PublishedAugust 22, 2024
UMaine System plans to move ahead with sale of Hutchinson Center to church
System officials say that considering the Belfast evangelical group’s religious affiliation could amount to illegal discrimination.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2024
Portland landlords paying tenants more than $16,000 to settle retaliation case
The landlords of the Sawyer Street apartment admit no fault and the city won’t go to court to collect an $8,700 fine imposed by the rent board that has been accruing at $200 a day since June 3.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2024
Gov. Janet Mills tells ‘Veep’ star Julia Louis-Dreyfus that Harris can ‘call on us’
The ‘Seinfeld’ actor hosted Maine’s governor and the nation’s 7 other female Democratic governors for a panel discussion on the value and role of women in politics.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2024
West Nile virus found in crows in Yarmouth, 2 other communities
At least 10 animals have been reported with the disease in Maine so far this year – more than twice as many as reported last year.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2024
Portland school board OKs applications for major construction projects
Though details of the plan have not been finalized, the district has looked at bringing students from Casco Bay, Deering and Portland high schools together on a new, unified campus.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2024
State, feds finalize agreement for nation’s 1st floating offshore wind power research lease
The pact moves Maine one step closer to creating the nation’s first floating wind facility, tentatively a 15-square-mile array that will include up to a dozen turbines nearly 30 miles southeast of Portland.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2024
Emergency repair shuts down section of I-95 in Augusta for several hours
A joint appeared to be failing on the bridge that carries traffic over Bond Brook Road, between Exits 112 and 109, the Department of Transportation said.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2024
Railroad track work to close parts of Read St., Brighton Ave. in Portland
A section of Read Street will be closed Wednesday and a stretch of Brighton Avenue will be closed Thursday to accommodate railroad crossing work.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2024
Some Amtrak Downeaster service suspended, modified through Sunday
Two trains are cancelled for the week and others will have modified service to allow crews to complete work in Wells.
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