The proposed language would say that the city is located in the ‘unceded territory of the Aucocisco Band of the Wabanaki’ who were displaced by force.
Megan Gray
Staff Writer
Megan Gray is an arts and culture reporter at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails. Her current beat is her favorite yet, and she loves the stories that take her to behind the scenes to an artist studio or theater backstage. Outside of work, she likes to explore Maine’s hiking trails and coastal islands with her husband, and she definitely wants to pet your dog.
Posted inMaine
Nonprofit marks 10 years of making a house a home
Furniture Friends, a group that gives donated furniture to people who can’t afford it, recently hit an important milestone: 10,000 individuals served.
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Posted inMaine, Schools & Education
Why 2 books on gender identity, sexuality are roiling local schools
The SAD 6 school board is set to decide the first of two challenges after a committee earlier reviewed the books and recommended that they remain on library shelves.
Posted inHealth, Maine
A line is drawn between protesters, patients outside Planned Parenthood in Portland
If protesters cross it, a new state law makes them vulnerable to incarceration and fines.
Posted inMaine, News, Uncategorized
Authorities find body during search for missing kayaker
Seth Vosmus, 34, left his family home in New Gloucester on Saturday to kayak out of Freeport.
Posted inMaine
At the Neal Dow House in Portland, visitors find a monument to temperance in a craft beer city
Neal Dow was mayor of Portland, an abolitionist and a supporter of women’s suffrage, a brigadier general in the Union Army who was wounded and captured in the Civil War, but his most famous role was as ‘the Father of Prohibition.’
Posted inMaine, News
Fire destroyed their barn, but at this Gorham dairy farm, ‘the cows are our life’
A fire destroyed the dairy barn at Flaggy Meadow Farm, and now the Youngs must decide the future of their family business.
Posted inMaine, News, Uncategorized
A perfect day for kayaking, then a swell from the sea
Capsized in the open ocean, Michael Beaudoin thought he would die alone – and almost did.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Man held on $60,000 cash bail after allegedly running over pedestrians in Raymond
The incident took place Sunday evening near Sebago Lake.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Family members of missing campers plea: ‘Come home’
A Springvale woman, her 2-year-old daughter and the girl’s father left June 27 for a camping trip, and no one has heard from them in more than three weeks.