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Connect with your neighbors
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via mainememory.net
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via portlandregion.com
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via facebook.com
Maine acts of kindness
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With COVID-19 cases surging, local restaurants are once again providing meals to health care workers and first responders – and keeping their lights on. -
An anonymous Portland couple is making an impact with the help of a friend, who delivers envelopes for them with a $100 bill and a message of support.
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Maine Needs has seen an increase in requests for food, hygiene products and baby supplies during the pandemic.
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A small group of volunteers is distributing personal hygiene kits containing items donated from local businesses to Portland's Preble Street shelter.
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Cooking for Community, a grass-roots initiative started in response to the coronavirus pandemic, has forged a network of local farms, restaurants and social-service agencies.
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The co-owners of a growing cosmetic company have purchased $12,000 worth of goods from local small businesses that will be combined into gift boxes for cancer patients.
The Virus Diaries
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An avid runner shares her story about finding the strength to keep going when everything starts badly.
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Rob Landry started the 2,200-mile trek on March 7, choosing to stay on the trail even after thru-hikers were asked to leave.
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Press Herald reporter Meredith Goad details her journey to be with family in Tennessee, including a funeral restricted to just 10 people, after her father died in early May.
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A former Downeast Magazine editor and her family are coping with isolation during a lockdown in the Cayman Islands.
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A longtime member of Alcoholics Anonymous misses the intimacy of in-person meetings that have been forced to go virtual because of the pandemic.
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Sean O'Connor boarded a vessel in January and expected to be home in April. But the pandemic has had him trapped aboard ship in Singapore for months.