What Statewide Data is Telling Us About Youth
When we start a new year, we often take “inventory” – look to make improvements like changing our habits, improving our health, bettering our mindset, etc. One thing we should ALL do is focus on improving...
Although I’m quick to share my accomplishments on social media, I sometimes forget that sharing my failures and admitting defeat also can be an accomplishment.
When I first heard about surrender in early recovery, I hated that word. I hated the idea of admitting defeat...
Like stock brokerage firm E.F. Hutton, when Kennebunk Police Chief Bob MacKenzie speaks, people listen. That’s a reputation he’s earned by building trust and respect over a 34-year law enforcement career.
In his field, those virtues are required for interactions to go well, but he...
For most people, working the graveyard shift is not a first choice.
But for Wendy Ayres of Waldo, working nights in a residential substance use treatment facility is exactly her first choice. When you meet Wendy, it’s hard not to be drawn to her warm...
In 1963, Ed Crockett was 2 years old, the youngest of eight children living on Munjoy Hill, with a father that the Portland Press Herald called “the biggest drunk in Portland.”
Ed’s mother Virginia made the “incredibly courageous” decision to ask the father of her...
Through his nonprofit, Silas Hagerty is giving young people the opportunity to learn from one another, discover new possibilities and use their creativity to explore positive change.
Silas is a filmmaker and founder of Smooth Feather Youth in Porter, Maine. One of the organization’s programs...
