1. Mark Dion was elected mayor of Portland on Wednesday morning after five rounds of a ranked-choice runoff. Dion was declared the winner with 10,750 votes, at just over 51%. Andrew Zarro came in a close second with 10,107 votes, a margin of just 643 votes. (PH)
2. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his pitch to voters during a campaign stop in Portland Wednesday. The nephew of former President John F. Kennedy is running as an independent in the 2024 race. He spoke to a crowd of around 700 people at the Ocean Gateway, touching on the housing crisis, inflation and foreign policy. (PH)
3. Hours after Lewiston native Patrick Dempsey was announced as People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, he announced that he would be taking part in a fundraising softball tournament in Lewiston this weekend to support families of the victims of last month’s mass shootings. Dempsey will join the first responders softball team when they take the field at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Randall Road Ballfields in Lewiston. A total of 25 teams of teenagers and co-ed adults will take part in the tournament. (WMTW)
4. Cooper Flagg made it official yesterday. The Newport native and nation’s top basketball player in the 2024 recruiting class signed his National Letter of Intent to play for the Duke Blue Devils during a ceremony at Montverde Academy in Florida. (PH)
5. Old Port bar Room for Improvement made the list of the five best new bars in America published this week by online beverage magazine Punch. “In a space that feels like it’s been there for decades, Room for Improvement channels all the studied perfectionism of the cocktail multiverse into an IDGAF package, with drinks that prove that they secretly do,” the Punch review read. (PH)
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