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PublishedOctober 20, 2023
Reporting Aside: As many have witnessed, homelessness has become a crisis in Waterville
The Waterville community has been generous and empathetic when it comes to helping a growing number of homeless people living in encampments, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that the city can't do it alone and should seek state or federal intervention, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedOctober 15, 2023
Betting on broccoli to boost Maine’s farming economy and food availability
Good Shepherd Food Bank has launched an innovative company that makes it the first among 200 food banks nationwide to address hunger by investing in for-profit farming and processing.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2023
Waterville City Council urged to take action as need for food grows
An administrator for the Waterville Area Soup Kitchen told the council Tuesday the kitchen is serving 250 to 300 meals a day and demand for food is growing.
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2023
Spruce Mountain Primary School food pantry is feeding more students
Good Shepherd Food Bank partners with the pantry in Jay that serves students.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2023
Commentary: Let’s end hunger in Maine, especially among children
The Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger is fighting for the nearly 37,000 people under 18 who are facing food insecurity in our state.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2023
Farmington-based food pantry receives $10K donation
UMF professor Dr. Steven Quackenbush and the Tyngtown club of Wilton have teamed up to give a donation to the RSU 9 Food Pantry to continue support the pantries backpack program.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2023
RSU 9 food pantry to receive $10,000 donation
In a collaboration between the RSU 9 food pantry, the Tyngtown Club and Dr. Steven Quackenbush, the pantry will rename their backpack program "Anita's Hope", in honor of Quackenbush's mother.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2023
Local food banks join effort to ‘end’ hunger in Maine by 2030
The Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future has convened a committee of 40 permanent members who will work together to implement Maine’s 'Roadmap to End Hunger by 2030.'
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PublishedAugust 3, 2023
Bowdoinham Community School to open food pantry for students
Bowdoinham Food Pantry has teamed up with the elementary school to open a school market after Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program ended its backpack food assistance program.
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PublishedMay 31, 2023
Changes to food aid in debt bill would cost money, far from savings Republicans envisioned
An estimate from the Congressional Budget Office says that while the new work requirements in SNAP would save money, the added benefits pushed by Democrats would cost more – and add almost 80,000 people to the rolls in an average month.
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