Masks will be required even in businesses that ask for proof of vaccination, and fines may be imposed.
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.
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Driver in fatal Acadia crash will plead guilty to federal charges
Praneeth Manubolu was the driver and sole survivor of a crash that killed three people in Acadia National Park in August 2019.
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Gray-New Gloucester school district settles lawsuit over alleged assault by bus driver
The settlement agreement did not admit any liability on the part of the district or individual officials named in the lawsuit.
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Martha Hallisey-Swift, 53, a devoted mother and champion of Maine’s children
The assistant attorney general was diagnosed less than a year ago with a rare and aggressive form of uterine cancer.
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‘When will something be done?’: Portland’s poet laureate echoes King’s sermon
Maya Williams’ poem pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and reflects on the message of his final Sunday sermon.
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Read ‘Something Needs to Be Done / after Martin Luther King, Jr.’ by Maya Williams
Something Needs to Be Done after Martin Luther King, Jr. A homeless man clutches to cardboard prayers under fallen snow in downtown Portland; Nothing has been done. A woman loses her veteran husband in rural Alna, and only has a crisp certificate of thanks for his service; Nothing has been done. There are only 1.7% […]
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Read excerpts from ‘Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution’
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this sermon on March 31, 1968, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. … One of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the […]
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Maine borrowers will benefit from Navient student loan settlement
The student loan servicer would cancel some debts and pay restitution to some borrowers under an agreement with attorneys general in Maine and other states.
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Federal judge sentences couple to time served for role in sex trafficking
Derong Miao and Shou Chao Li have been in jail for more than three years.
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Snowstorm prompts Maine school closures, travel warnings
Southern coastal counties got up to 7 inches of snow Friday.