RSU 21 agreed to settle with former Kennebunk High School teacher Rosa Slack, who filed a complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission in January 2018.
Eric Russell
Staff Writer
Eric Russell has been a general assignment reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since 2012 and has been a journalist in Maine since 2004. Because he doesn’t have a specific geographic or topical area to cover, Eric often is free to roam the state in pursuit of the most interesting stories, whether it’s tackling the big topic of the day or chasing ideas that fall just outside the boundaries of everyday news. His favorite assignments are ones where he can leave the office and meet with people in their homes or their workplaces to talk about their struggles and challenges – and sometimes their triumphs. Or to try and answer complicated questions.
Eric grew up in Southern Maine, went to college at the University of Maine and worked in Bangor for eight years before joining the Press Herald. He lives in Brunswick with his wife, a school teacher, and two daughters.
Posted inMaine, News
Fifteen years after AMHI’s closure, mental health system still fractured
Despite a promise to provide resources to the severely mentally ill living in communities across the state, Maine has often failed to deliver.
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Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics
Report: Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon to challenge Sen. Collins
Citing 5 unnamed sources, the Huffington Post says the Freeport Democrat will make her announcement this month after the legislative session ends.
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Police ID victim in fatal crash on I-295 as Brunswick woman, 26
Kathy Haycock was a passenger in a car driven by Brannon McRae of Augusta that left the road and crashed into a stone ledge along the northbound lanes of the interstate in Falmouth, state police say.
Posted inMaine, News
Body of missing N.H. man found in Standish lake
Timothy Clauge, 39, of Nottingham, N.H., launched a kayak shortly after midnight on Thursday to go fishing but didn’t return.
Posted inMaine, Uncategorized
Plane pull raises $100,000 for Travis Mills Foundation
Teams of 25 people take turns trying to pull an 80-ton plane at the Portland International Jetport.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Misconduct alleged in class action case involving Portland lawyer
The lawsuit, brought by F. Ronald Jenkins, involves hundreds of Guatemalans who were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases by the U.S. government in the 1940s and 1950s.
Posted inMaine, Nation & World, News, Politics
Maine native drafts ‘articles of impeachment’ in New York Times
Ian Prasad Philbrick, a 2012 graduate of Greely High School, based his interactive opinion piece on the templates from Nixon’s impeachment in 1974 and Clinton’s in 1998.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Senate vote moves Maine closer to trashing single-use plastic bags
The Senate voted Tuesday to approve the statewide ban, which already passed in the House but needs further votes in both chambers.
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Mills calls for Maine to borrow $239 million to fix roads, conserve land, build workforce
The Democratic governor makes a series of bond proposals that need approval from both legislators and voters.