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By Staff Greg Paxton, the executive director of Maine Preservation, has announced he will retire after 13 years in the role. Paxton's retirement, which he recently announced to the board of trustees of the Yarmouth-based nonprofit, will become effective June 1. During his tenure, Maine Preservation grew from one full-time and one part-time employees to five full-time employees. Under Paxton's leadership, several programs that have supported historic preservation development and boosted the economies of communities across the state were launched. "I am fortunate that during my t...

Michael Tonn More than 1.6 million people worldwide have died of COVID-19 so far this year; more than 300,000 of them were in the United States, and 100 were in Vermont. The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy. It's driving up rates of depression, anxiety and overdose deaths, and causing record numbers of parents, mostly women, to leave the workforce to care for their kids. And the pandemic has isolated us from friends and family when we need them the most. All of th...