Morning update: What you need to know in Maine today

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“This place is not an ordinary store. It’s a place where holiness happens.”

— The Most Rev. James Thomas Ruggieri during a visit to Threads of Hope Thrift Store in Presque Isle, a stop on the new Catholic bishop’s first trip to The County.

TODAY’S TOP MAINE STORIES

In Maine’s coastal enclaves, the price of admission may include a “tear down” home . At the extreme end, the cheapest of the only two single-family homes for sale in Biddeford Pool was abandoned during construction and is listed for $1.3 million.

Bangor wants to spend the last of its pandemic relief money appealing to housing developers . The $2.6 million would go toward two pieces of undeveloped land.

The heads of tuna caught in a Maine fishing tournament will help set future catch quotas . Scientists from the University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab spent Tuesday morning digging into the giant heads for a tiny bone bearing key indicators about the fish.

Maine’s new Catholic bishop went to Aroostook County for the first time this week . The Most Rev. James Thomas Ruggieri spent time in the St. John Valley and made stops in Caribou and Presque Isle.

MAINE IN PICTURES

NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE

• Independent pharmacies are closing. Pharmacy benefit managers may be to blame.
• House Speaker Mike Johnson will stump for Austin Theriault in Maine
• RFK Jr. qualifies for Maine’s presidential ballot
• Order of Maine November ballot questions announced
• Couple killed in Bangor crash after police chase loved each other, family says
• Former Catholic priest who ‘inflamed’ situation before Hampden woman’s murder has been defrocked
• Man who crashed into Houlton car dealership dies in Bangor
• ‘Tonight Show’ host Jimmy Fallon visits Bar Harbor lobster pound
• Acadia tackles mountaintop soil erosion with the help of hikers
• Task force recommends that Bar Harbor inspect long-term rentals
• What locals fear will be lost if Sears Island becomes a wind port
• A waterbird from South America was spotted for the 1st time in Maine
• The Maine Lobster Festival is upon us. Here’s a quick guide.
• 24-year-old killed in Waldo County crash
• Teens who escaped Maine prison arrested after crashes in two states
• John Bapst High School names new girls soccer coach
• Bangor station to televise all 5 UMaine home football games this fall

FROM THE OPINION PAGES

“Sure, there are more important things happening in the world, and we shouldn’t completely tune them out, but the athleticism, sportsmanship and international showcase of the Olympics may be the diversion we need now.”

Editorial: The Olympics inspire us to dream of a better world

LIFE IN MAINE

A Maine lobsterman once won an Olympic medal in the hammer throw . Edmund Black was perhaps the most classically “Maine” of any Olympian the state has produced .

Growing your own food in the city might seem impossible, but many are doing it . Pick up some tips at the Bangor-Brewer urban garden tour this weekend .

An 11-year-old from the same Old Town family that caught the piebald bullhead fish in the Penobscot River found an unusual frog .