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ORLAND -- As we transition into warmer weather so too do homeless shelters in our region, and for Homeworkers Organized for More Employment (H.O.M.E.) Inc. it brings changes and challenges.

Those Mainers who died in 2023 include a witness who helped convict Charles Manson, a politician who promoted secession and a punk rocker.

Over decades until her retirement in 2016, Poulin worked to provide shelter, community and economic opportunity for those who lacked such things.

When There’s No Heat: ‘You Need Wood, You Get Wood’ Community wood banks, like food banks, help people in need. Climate change is shaping their role. High-piled logs at the Waldo County Woodshed, a wood bank in Searsmont, Maine.Credit... Photographs by George Etheredge Marguerite Holloway and George Etheredge traveled to Maine to see how climate change is affecting wood banks there. Published Feb. 19, 2021Updated Feb. 20, 2021 ORLAND, MAINE — The cluster of a dozen or so hou...