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Maine Street
Posted March 20, 2020
Updated August 14, 2020
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Community Center: Forum

* Connect with your neighbors • Maine Acts of Kindness • The Virus Diaries

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Also check out the Bulletin Board section in our Community Center. Browse our complete directory of interactive and virtual things to do from home on our Maine Street page. Have something to submit to the Forum? Send it to [email protected].

Connect with your neighbors
  • via mainememory.net
    Add your story to the Maine Memory Network
  • via portlandregion.com
    Virtual events from the Portland Region Community Chamber
  • via facebook.com
    Slim Goodbody’s ‘A Kid’s Guide to COVID-19’
Maine acts of kindness
  • Maine Acts of Kindness: Feeding the frontline workers is as important as ever
    With COVID-19 cases surging, local restaurants are once again providing meals to health care workers and first responders – and keeping their lights on.
  • Maine Acts of Kindness: Warm hearts provide cash for those in need
    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.
  • Maine Acts of Kindness: Nearly 6,000 strong, Facebook group helps those in need
    Maine Needs has seen an increase in requests for food, hygiene products and baby supplies during the pandemic.
  • Maine Acts of Kindness: Lending a hand to the homeless
    A small group of volunteers is distributing personal hygiene kits containing items donated from local businesses to Portland's Preble Street shelter.
  • Maine Acts of Kindness: Effort provides thousands of free meals for the needy
    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.
  • Maine Acts of Kindness: Finding new ways to support cancer patients
    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
  • The Virus Diaries: ‘Don’t get discouraged, because you’re not alone’
    An avid runner shares her story about finding the strength to keep going when everything starts badly.
  • The Virus Diaries: Portland hiker sticks it out on the Appalachian Trail
    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.
  • The Virus Diaries: After father’s death, ‘Nothing could keep me from my mother’
    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.
  • The Virus Diaries: Even in the tropics, the pandemic gets wearing
    A former Downeast Magazine editor and her family are coping with isolation during a lockdown in the Cayman Islands.
  • The Virus Diaries: Even with 26 years of sobriety, the loss of AA meetings is a worry
    A longtime member of Alcoholics Anonymous misses the intimacy of in-person meetings that have been forced to go virtual because of the pandemic.
  • The Virus Diaries: Mainer finds himself stuck, halfway around the world
    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.

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