Megan Gray is a general assignment reporter at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails, lawsuits and U.S. Supreme Court cases. Her favorite stories are the ones that help us learn more about each other and the varied lives we lead in this expansive state. She likes to explore Maine’s hiking trails and coastal islands with her husband, and she definitely wants to pet your dog.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2022
Report finds Maine schools failing to teach Wabanaki studies despite state law
The report was published Monday to mark Indigenous Peoples Day and is a collaboration between the Wabanaki Alliance, the Abbe Museum, the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2022
Portland voters to consider adding Native land acknowledgment to charter
The proposed language would say that the city is located in the ‘unceded territory of the Aucocisco Band of the Wabanaki’ who were displaced by force.
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PublishedOctober 3, 2022
Nonprofit marks 10 years of making a house a home
Furniture Friends, a group that gives donated furniture to people who can’t afford it, recently hit an important milestone: 10,000 individuals served.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2022
Why 2 books on gender identity, sexuality are roiling local schools
The SAD 6 school board is set to decide the first of two challenges after a committee earlier reviewed the books and recommended that they remain on library shelves.
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PublishedSeptember 5, 2022
A line is drawn between protesters, patients outside Planned Parenthood in Portland
If protesters cross it, a new state law makes them vulnerable to incarceration and fines.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2022
Authorities find body during search for missing kayaker
Seth Vosmus, 34, left his family home in New Gloucester on Saturday to kayak out of Freeport.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2022
At the Neal Dow House in Portland, visitors find a monument to temperance in a craft beer city
Neal Dow was mayor of Portland, an abolitionist and a supporter of women’s suffrage, a brigadier general in the Union Army who was wounded and captured in the Civil War, but his most famous role was as ‘the Father of Prohibition.’
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PublishedAugust 12, 2022
Fire destroyed their barn, but at this Gorham dairy farm, ‘the cows are our life’
A fire destroyed the dairy barn at Flaggy Meadow Farm, and now the Youngs must decide the future of their family business.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2022
A perfect day for kayaking, then a swell from the sea
Capsized in the open ocean, Michael Beaudoin thought he would die alone – and almost did.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2022
Man held on $60,000 cash bail after allegedly running over pedestrians in Raymond
The incident took place Sunday evening near Sebago Lake.
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