1. The winter’s largest snowstorm is heading toward Maine and threatening to drop as much as 18 inches of heavy, wet snow on most of the state starting Wednesday afternoon and lasting through Thursday. Greater Portland will likely have between 12 and 18 inches of snow on the ground, making it the heaviest snowfall in the city since Jan. 4-5 when Portland got 12 inches. Northern areas of the state could get 8 to 12 inches of snow. (PH)
2. This weekend’s flooding has revealed the remains of this old skeleton of a ship buried at Short Sands Beach in York. According to Fun-O-Rama, the ship is 170 years old. Police and officials asked the public not to take away any pieces of the ship. (WMTW)
3. Maine’s hospitality industry reached new revenue highs last year, bringing in $3.8 billion as the state continued to attract more tourists. The number of tourists reached 36 million in 2016, and 2017 will likely show strong growth again, according to early estimates. Roughly 1 million more people visited Maine during last year’s summer season, and overnight stays jumped about 8 percent, according to an estimate by DPA, a Portland-based research firm that studies tourism trends for the state. (PH)
4. A Facebook survey recently asked users if it was acceptable for an adult man to ask a 14-year-old girl for sexually explicit photos on the platform. The response options were: 1) This content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it, 2) This content should be allowed on Facebook, but I don’t want to see it, 3) This content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it, and 4) I have no preference on this topic. Facebook Vice President of Product Guy Rosen has since responded and called the survey question a mistake. “We run surveys to understand how the community thinks about how we set policies. But this kind of activity is and will always be completely unacceptable on FB,” he wrote. “We regularly work with authorities if identified. It should have been part of this survey. That was a mistake.” (BF)
5. Dentist’s Day. This day is meant to honor our favorite nerve-wracking experience in the dentist’s chair.
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