Concerns by neighboring landowners and water district officials have stalled the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ ambitious project at the eleventh hour.
Eric Russell
Staff Writer
Eric Russell has been a general assignment reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since 2012 and has been a journalist in Maine since 2004. Because he doesn’t have a specific geographic or topical area to cover, Eric often is free to roam the state in pursuit of the most interesting stories, whether it’s tackling the big topic of the day or chasing ideas that fall just outside the boundaries of everyday news. His favorite assignments are ones where he can leave the office and meet with people in their homes or their workplaces to talk about their struggles and challenges – and sometimes their triumphs. Or to try and answer complicated questions. Eric grew up in Southern Maine, went to college at the University of Maine and worked in Bangor for eight years before joining the Press Herald. He lives in Brunswick with his wife, a school teacher, and two daughters.
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Lack of data makes financial abuse of seniors nearly impossible to measure, Collins’ committee told
Most states don’t track such cases, the Government Accountability Office reports at a Senate Aging Committee hearing that includes a reference to a recent Maine Sunday Telegram story.
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Victim of a long con lives out her days penniless in a Fryeburg nursing home
The people responsible for stealing about $1 million from Los Angeles native Sarah Cheiker and abandoning her in a Maine motel are nowhere to be found.
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ZamZam Mohamud
She’s always there for new refugees and for her Lewiston neighbors.
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Trump explains why ‘we kept going back to Maine’ during campaign
The president-elect, in a meeting with The New York Times, says the state’s electoral votes, especially the one in the 2nd Congressional District, were part of his strategy.
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Westbrook officer cleared in man’s shooting
Benjamin Hall shot an armed man, who was wounded but survived.
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Windham woman who lived alone killed by fire in her home
The state Fire Marshal’s Office is working to determine the cause of the fire on Pettingill Road that took the life of Marie McAllister.
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Maine experts hail U.S. surgeon general’s report on addiction crisis
Public health officials and treatment specialists say “Facing Addiction in America” could change the public’s perception that drug abuse is a moral failing rather than a disease.
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Why this Maine town pivoted from Obama to Trump
The Oxford County town of Mexico is only the most dramatic example among many in Maine where hunger for change – any change – drove Democratic voters to the alternative.
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LePage congratulates Trump on ‘well-deserved win’
Maine’s governor called the presidential result a ‘triumph for the American people.’