Bonny Eagle High School student volunteers with the Teen Trendsetters program help children at Buxton Center Elementary School build skills and enthusiasm for reading.
Susan Kimball Reports
Shelter readies 3 blind, deaf dogs for adoption
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland says the dogs are brothers and are adjusting well after being rescued from a Tennessee home filled with animal waste and garbage.
Eighteen goats rescued from dilapidated barn in Aroostook County
Animal welfare workers say the goats, some of which were 8 to 10 years old, had never been outdoors.
Dancing their hearts out at Mayo Street Arts – for free
Neighborhood kids thrive on the dance floor at the Club Hip Hop weekly class.
Inmates riding proud regain control, hope
Inmates from Southern Maine Re-entry Center in Alfred find that learning to ride gives them optimism about taking control of their lives.
Table tennis much more than a game for immigrant champ
The member of the Iraqi national team and his family are making the transition to life in Maine.
Resettled Iraqi family most thankful just to be safe in Maine
Now the American dream seems within reach for Ali Farid, who aided U.S. troops, and his kin.
Portland shelter’s staff watching out for the ‘extremely vulnerable’
Vietnam veteran Mike Gavitt now has a place to live in Portland, but he and many others live on the brink of chronic homelessness.
One generous gift of a kidney leads to chain of Maine donations
Stanley Galvin’s altruistic organ donation helped connect two other donors and three Maine residents in need of kidneys in a single day of six surgeries.
Maine mom, daughter take brave action against cancer
After learning that they have a genetic mutation that greatly increases their risk of breast and ovarian cancer, they say radical surgery is ‘just the logical thing to do.’