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The BDN is exploring Maine’s housing crisis from every possible angle, from how it affects home prices, to what it means for Mainers across the state. Read our ongoing coverage here and fill out this form to tell us what you want to know. After moving from Alabama to Portland, it did not take long for Angel Salmons, her husband and two children to want a more rural setting. They bought a home in Hanover in 2020 after being attracted to the town for its scenic beauty, “village life” and access to the water, she said.

When it comes to clams, does size really matter? One Maine scientist is on a quest to find out. Concerned for the future of the state’s second most valuable fishery, Brian Beal, a marine ecology professor at the University of Maine at Machias and the director of research at Downeast Institute, is embarking on a study to determine if large soft shell clams produce more eggs than their smaller counterparts.

Joe Bouchard and Allan Haggan Jr. drove from Fairfield to Bangor on Friday because they wanted to represent a type of diversity in the Maine Democratic Party. Their left-of-center politics have a characteristic Maine tinge: Among the top causes for the delegates to the two-day party convention were universal health care and gun rights, the latter of which they felt was a common attitude here but one not represented well in the national party. “We really want to make sure that there’s visibility on where we stand across the board, across the whole spectrum and not just kind of a stereotype at a singular national level,” Bouchard said. A wide-angled approach will be especially important this year for Democrats trying to maintain political power in Maine up against a midterm wall.

Grant Williams scored a career-high 27 points and hit seven 3-pointers, Jayson Tatum added 23 and the Boston Celtics set a Game 7 record with 22 3-pointers to eliminate the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks 109-81 on Sunday in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Boston will face top-seeded Miami beginning Tuesday in a rematch of the 2020 East finals.

LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. — One person was killed and four others were critically wounded in a shooting Sunday at a Southern California church, authorities said. The shooting happened at Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said on Twitter. A fifth injured person suffered minor injuries, officials said.

The University of Maine’s baseball team dropped the final game of its three-game America East series against Albany on Sunday morning 10-5, but the Black Bears still won their seventh league series after 4-2 and 7-5 wins on Friday and Saturday at Mahaney Diamond. UMaine, which has already locked up the top seed for the America East tournament on May 25-28, is now 21-6 in the conference and 26-17 overall.