The Abbe Museum is partnering with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage to produce the Dawnland Festival.
Reuben M. Schafir
Staff Writer
Reuben, a Bowdoin College graduate and former Press Herald intern, returned to our newsroom in July 2025 to cover Indigenous communities in Maine as part of a Report for America partnership. Reuben was most recently working in Southwest Colorado, where he covered county government, the environment, public health and politics.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
These Maine sailors bought a tiny boat on Facebook. Then they tried to race it to Alaska.
Three Mainers who work aboard windjammers entered a 1966 sailboat in a grueling race up the west coast of Canada.
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Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Bates librarian finds Indigenous land grant from 1860s, complicating college’s history
The Lewiston college owned and sold 57,000 acres in northwestern Maine.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Caesars, 3 Wabanaki Nations extend partnership to iGaming
Internet table games may become available to Maine residents by the end of 2026.
Posted inMaine, News
Land returned to Mi’kmaq Nation will double tribe’s territory
Nearly 3,400 acres have been returned to the Aroostook County-based tribe.
Posted inMaine, News
Inside Carrabassett Valley’s thawing conflict with the Penobscot Nation
For years, the tribe has barred public recreation on its land in the town. Now, tensions may be cooling.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News, Schools and Education
We tested a bullet-resistant backpack made in Maine. Here’s what happened.
A Houlton manufacturer thinks his body shields can protect students statewide. So we took one to a shooting range.
Posted inNews
Boothbay schools got backpacks that stop bullets. Was it a good idea?
Police Chief Douglas Snyder found grant funding to buy one Maine-made bullet-resistant bag for each elementary and high school classroom.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News, Schools and Education
Meet the man who wants to put ballistic backpacks in every Maine classroom
Jeffrey Maguire, of Houlton, does private security for the rich and famous.
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Watch 2 experts shoot a Maine-made bullet-resistant backpack
A retired chief firearms officer for the state corrections department and a founder of Portland police’s SWAT team took a Mundbora body shield to a shooting range.