Maine s affordable housing crisis has worsened during pandemic newscentermaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newscentermaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Maine Voices: No winners when children are incarcerated
Maine needs to divert young people from the criminal justice system and shorten sentences for those who are involved.
By Eliza May BurwellSpecial to the Press Herald
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The first time I went to Long Creek Youth Development Center was for a volunteer training in 2019 as part of my job at a local social services agency. My biggest takeaway from the training was that every volunteer and staff member who went inside the facility needed to wear a “man-down button” at all times. If the button was pressed, a group of specially trained juvenile corrections officers would immediately respond at a sprint in order to intervene in a crisis.
Maine Voices: No winners when children are incarcerated centralmaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from centralmaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Protect South Portland holds rally against petroleum tank emissions
The local environmental group is promoting a bill that would increase state regulation of air pollution from petroleum storage tanks.
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Carmen Haggerty, center, and PJ Cragin, left of Haggerty, attend a rally against petroleum tank emissions at Kaler Elementary School on Friday. Both women grew up in South Portland and Cragin spoke about how her sister died of cancer. Haggerty s daughter is on the track team at South Portland High School and told her mom they can sometimes smell the fumes from the tanks during practice. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographe
Group rallies to stop toxic tank fumes from South Portland oil storage tanks wmtw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wmtw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.