Thursday, May 23, 2013
A $3 million federal grant to a Maine non-profit will give low-income Mainers more access to healthy foods, lawmakers say.
Coastal Enterprises of Wiscasset is one of 12 recipients nationally of a Treasury Department grant aimed at increasing the availability and affordability of fresh and healthy food, say Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st, and GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine.
The $3 million award to Coastal Enterprises will help the non-profit provide financing to local businesses, such as grocery stores or farmers markets, that offer healthy foods to rural communities, the lawmakers said in statements.
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Kevin Miller is Washington bureau chief for the Portland Press Herald and MaineToday Media. He has worked as a journalist in Maine for 6 ½ years, covering the environment, politics and the State House. Before arriving in Maine, he wrote about politics, government and education for newspapers in Virginia and Maryland.
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