I am a Navy airman from the Vietnam War. I receive all my medical care at the VA hospital in Togus. Since new medical laws came out (which I have read, all eight pages), I have found about 10 things the doctors are supposed to do and are not. My medications used to come on […]
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Jared Golden’s bill to help returning veterans signed into law
AUGUSTA — A measure to help veterans use their military training to snag civilian jobs that require licenses sailed through the Legislature and was signed into law recently by Gov. Paul LePage. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Lewiston, proposed allowing the director of the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation “to modify licensing requirements of professional licensing […]
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Veterans helping veterans seeking new members
AUGUSTA — Back In The Maine Stream, a nonprofit organization of disabled veterans helping other disabled Maine veterans, is seeking new members. The organization’s purpose is to increase quality of life and heal physical and emotional trauma through recreational fishing. Honorably discharged Maine veterans with a disability of 10 percent or more are eligible to […]
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Honor the fallen
Memorial Day is set aside to remember servicemen who gave their lives in the belief that they were acting to support freedom and justice. A suitable memorial would be for all of us to do our part to reduce conflict and injustice throughout the world. We can teach peace in our homes, welcome refugees, support […]
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Mainers to ride horses 280 miles in support of Maine veterans
FRYEBURG — Horses Across Maine, a nonprofit organization, is planning a 280-mile trek across Maine in an effort to raise funds for various issues facing Maine veterans. An enthusiastic group of people plan to take to the highways on horseback, starting in Fryeburg sometime in the late spring of 2018. The riders plan to go […]
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Navy veteran to speak at Wayne Memorial Day service
WAYNE — Steven Woodsum, U.S. Navy veteran, will be the guest speaker at this year’s Memorial Day service on Monday, May 29. The Memorial Day Committee is working with the 3rd Maine and the Maranacook High School and Middle School bands to create an appropriate reflection and observance. A schedule of events is as follows: […]
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American flags placed at veterans’ graves in Farmington
FARMINGTON — The weather cooperated Saturday as volunteers placed American flags at the graves of veterans buried in Fairview and Riverside cemeteries. Peter Tracey, Roderick-Crosby American Legion Post 28 adjutant, has been in charge of the annual flag placements for the past five years. Nine hundred twenty flags were purchased this year by the town […]
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Former chamber president creates company matching veterans with businesses
AUBURN — Several weeks ago, Matt Leonard took a call from a newly retired colonel who’d moved to Maine because he and his wife had vacationed here and loved the state. He had 30 years in the Air Force, three master’s degrees and zero job prospects — he’d applied, but no one was calling him back. […]
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King backs bill to expedite vets' appeals to Veterans Affairs
PORTLAND — A group of senators including Maine’s Sen. Angus King wants to overhaul the way the federal Department of Veterans Affairs handles appeals. King, an independent, is joining Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Jon Tester of Montana on the legislation. The senators say more than 450,000 appeals are pending before the VA […]
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Peru teen growing flowers for veterans' graves
Katelyn “Kit-Kat” Carlow of Peru plants flower seeds with her grandfather, David Gammon, of Peru. Her goal is to plant flowers on veterans’ graves in cemeteries for Memorial Day. MEXICO — Katelyn “Kit-Kat” Carlow of Peru is raising flowers to put on veterans’ graves for Memorial Day. The 17-year-old said that as long as she can […]