AUGUSTA — Among the many barriers to providing services to needy military veterans — funding, transportation, reaching out to rural communities — the hardest to overcome might seem like the easiest: finding veterans in the first place. Troubling for a panel of experts who convened Tuesday in Augusta to discuss the problem is the fact […]
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Honor Flight returns home with some local heroes
PORTLAND — World War II veterans came back to Maine on Sunday morning exuberant, following a whirlwind Honor Flight trip to Washington, D.C. — all expenses paid — to see the nation’s monuments. On Friday, the day President Barack Obama celebrated VE Day and vintage aircraft flew overhead, these Maine warriors arrived — 25 in […]
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Bill to build cabins for Maine’s homeless vets gets strong support
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee has given unanimous support to a bill that would provide up to $1 million in state funds to help launch a project that would build up to 21 cabins for homeless veterans. The bill, LD 1062, sponsored by state Rep. Jared Golden, D-Lewiston, is meant to jump-start the Cabin in […]
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Bill could launch housing program for homeless vets
AUGUSTA – A Lewiston lawmaker is leading the charge to bring as many as 21 cabins for homeless veterans to the grounds of the Veterans Affairs Administration’s medical campus at Togus. State Rep. Jared Golden, D-Lewiston, is asking the Legislature to approve a $1 million appropriation to kick-start a Volunteers of America Cabin in the Woods […]
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Bill for commission to review Maine’s veteran services moves forward
AUGUSTA — Legislation that creates a new state commission to review the services Maine provides for its veterans vaulted a key hurdle Wednesday when lawmakers on the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee unanimously approved the measure. The measure, LD 721, sponsored by state Rep. Jared Golden, D-Lewiston, next faces votes before the full Legislature. […]
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Veterans get free tickets to Rise Above Fest, Sea Dog offers benefit brew
BANGOR — When the Sea Dog Brewing Co.’s doors open on May 1, there will be a new beer on tap brewed specifically to support the Rise Above Fest’s goal of suicide prevention. “Sea Dog brewery is creating a special release beer called Rise Above Red just for the cause,” Dan Reidenberg, executive director of […]
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D. Blais: A salute of respect
Recently, an amazing thing happened to me. I was driving down Farwell Street and as I approached Farwell School, a high-school-age young man wearing an ROTC uniform saluted me as I approached where he was standing and drove by him. He must have noticed the veteran’s license plate with a Vietnam service badge on my […]
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Legislation targets false claims of military service
AUGUSTA — People who falsely claim they’re military veterans for financial gain could be more easily prosecuted under a proposal passed by the Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on Wednesday. Stemming from a bill offered by state Rep. Brad Farrin, R-Norridgewock, a change to state law would make it clear that a person falsely […]
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Search for homeless goes on despite storm
LEWISTON — Despite a winter storm that buried the city in snow Tuesday, an annual hunt for the homeless in the city and across Maine got underway after sunset Wednesday. Gerry DeWitt, a volunteer and social worker with the Veterans Outreach Program, said the survey goes on regardless of the weather, as part of an […]