Patty Stanton remembers melting snow to flush toilets and volunteering with the Lions Club at her local school.
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‘For the first time in my life, I had no idea where I would be sleeping that night’
Kathy MacLeod Hooke remembers staying over at a motel, at her workplace and in the home of a kind older couple.
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‘Hellish cannon-like crashing sounds occurred night after night’
Ray Wilson remembers the tall, thin birch trees suffering worst.
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‘How can the Maine Turnpike be closed?‘
Bill Jeffrey remembers treacherous driving, helping neighbors and a couple of miraculous pies from Pat‘s Pizza in Orono.
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‘We had it easier in the wilderness … already set up for no power or heat’
Martha Bracy remembers the historic storm hitting during a 10-day Outward Bound trek across western Maine.
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Maine Voices: Is America moving toward a new isolationism?
President Biden has pledged that Ukraine will ‘never stand alone’ as it continue its fight. That’s not only up to him.
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Maine Voices: A big bipartisan opportunity to strengthen Maine’s democracy
The absence of ranked-choice voting in state elections and the system of unelected constitutional officers deprive Mainers of their right to full and fair government.
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Maine Voices: CMP is an albatross around the neck of Maine businesses
It doesn’t have to be this bad. The opportunity to replace Central Maine Power with a nonprofit consumer-owned utility must be seized.
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Maine Voices: Looking back on 150 years of Emancipation Day celebrations in Portland
Old newspaper reports show us that celebrations of Black freedom and Black activism have a long history in Maine.
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The Maine Millennial: On proving things to myself in 2022
And setting some goals for 2023.