Megan Gray covers the city of Westbrook, as well as general news stories. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has previously worked as a reporter at the South Bend Tribune in Indiana, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette in Pennsylvania and the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire. She likes long runs, hikes in the White Mountains, Notre Dame college football and news tips from readers.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2022
‘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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PublishedJanuary 17, 2022
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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PublishedJanuary 17, 2022
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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PublishedJanuary 14, 2022
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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PublishedJanuary 11, 2022
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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PublishedJanuary 7, 2022
Snowstorm prompts Maine school closures, travel warnings
Southern coastal counties got up to 7 inches of snow Friday.
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2022
Judge awards almost $1 million to families of fishermen who died on the Emmy Rose
The Portland-based vessel sank off the coast of Massachusetts in November 2020, claiming the lives of four men in a tragedy that stunned Maine’s fishing community.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2021
COVID or just a cold? Common symptoms have people hunting for hard-to-find tests
Experts say anyone with a cough or a sore throat who can’t get tested should stay at home.
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PublishedDecember 30, 2021
Maine newspapers can challenge anonymity of plaintiffs in vaccine mandate lawsuit, judge says
The unnamed health care workers filed their lawsuit in federal court in August seeking to overturn Maine’s vaccine mandate.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2021
Maine appeals ruling that allows out-of-state sellers of medical cannabis
The case appears to be the first of its kind to reach a federal appeals court, where the opinion could have ramifications in other states.
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