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PublishedNovember 28, 2022
Portland immigration clinic helps asylum seekers take ‘first step of a very long road’
With help from volunteers and nonprofits, more than 300 new Mainers fleeing persecution in other countries have recently begun the process of securing asylum – and safety.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2022
The Maine Millennial: Medicine is a group project
Maine Med was full almost to bursting when I had my donor kidney removed there, but the staff made me feel like I was the only patient in the building.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2022
The Maine Millennial: Ask and ye shall receive
I don’t know the person who’ll be receiving my donated left kidney. I’m just glad they’ll receive it.
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PublishedOctober 20, 2022
Waterville high school students, staff pitch in to put some shine on the city
About 500 Waterville Senior High School students and 80 staff volunteered in the community Thursday as part of Day of Caring, organized by the school and United Way.
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PublishedOctober 15, 2022
Colby students, residents help clean up Waterville’s South End
About 20 Colby College students in the college's civic engagement program on Saturday helped clean up litter, furniture, tires and other trash around the South End of Waterville as part of an effort by the South End Neighborhood Association.
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2022
Maine Voices: May I give you a reason to be hopeful?
The needs of our friends and neighbors increase every day. My community, despite being divided on many fronts, comes together to meet those needs.
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PublishedJuly 22, 2022
Reporting Aside: Winslow club planting the seeds for a town to grow
Sue and Rick Dutil started the Winslow Garden Club this year and it now has 19 members doing their part to make the town shine, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2022
Reporting Aside: No task is too tall or pie in the sky for these two civic-minded stalwarts
Peter Garrett of Winslow and Nancy Williams of Waterville have been working for about a year to develop plans for a scenic gravel trail that would meander through Waterville's South End along the Kennebec River and include a park adjacent to the water, Amy Calder writes.
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PublishedJune 5, 2022
Bath group launches replica of 400-plus-year-old ship after decades of work
Thousands gathered in Bath Saturday to watch the christening and launch of Virginia, a reconstruction of the first English-built oceangoing ship built in the Americas.
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PublishedApril 24, 2022
The Maine Millennial: I’ve got good news about kidney donation – pass it on
My friend Ted received one, and my goal is to take part in a living donor transplant swap.
Volunteerism
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