Before he died in a police-involved shooting a year ago in Portland, the 22-year-old methodically slipped away from family and friends, from jobs and homes.
Mary Pols
Mary Pols writes primarily about sustainability for Source. She came to the Press Herald in late 2013 to work on Source after a long career writing about movies. She has almost, but not quite, broken the habit of waking pre-dawn on Oscar nomination day. Mary was born in Portland and raised in Brunswick, but was away for 25 years so it’s been a thrill for her to learn about her state in the 21st century. She studied art history at Duke and her masters in journalism is from UC Berkeley. She’s happiest reporting a story in Maine’s great outdoors, whether she’s watching seaweed farmers plant a crop or eating fresh caught perch with an ice fisherman while a hungry eagle hovers nearby. History really floats her boat as well (once she wrote an entire story about the life of a very old and rare apple tree in Freeport). She lives in Brunswick with her hockey-obsessed son and their dog, a foster-fail kitten and an elderly Maine Coon.
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Galen Koch is setting a course for Maine’s coastal communities
Her plan is to gather stories from an old Airstream she’s turned into a media lab.
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After four decades in the business, the cheesemakers at York Hill Farm retire
John and Penny Duncan were in the vanguard of local food producers in Maine, making award-winning goat cheese. Will anyone pick up their torch?
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Andrew Bossie is the first executive director of Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters
The Portland resident has a mission to help the new national monument succeed.
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Deanna Witman went from field biologist to artist and Unity College professor
Climate change informs her most recent pieces in the Portland Museum of Art’s Biennial.
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Executive director of Maine organic farmers association to retire in late August
The group that certifies the state’s organic agriculture operations has made strong progress during Ted Quaday’s five years at the helm.
Posted inSource
What you need to know about microplastics
These pieces of plastic, often no bigger than a sesame seed, come from many sources but are all man-made.
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A survey found plenty of tiny pieces of plastic in Casco Bay. What that means still isn’t clear
The Friends of Casco Bay assessment identifies microplastics in four distinct regions. But none of the microbeads banned in Maine in 2015 showed up.
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Maine native Cooper Van Vranken is studying fisheries in Denmark
There might be a lesson about Maine shrimp in data about its cousins in the North Sea.
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Road warrior Bob Moosmann – defender of bees, butterflies, organic farmers
At the Department of Transportation, green roads and byways are his thing.