COVID-19 has brought death closer than ever- but social distancing rules keeps loved ones apart during their final moments. Elissa Mardiney talks to death experts about how the pandemic is changing dying, and how thinking about death can change the way we live. Please Note: This piece discusses death and contains some profanity.

Roland Labbe opened the first gay bar in Portland, Maine, in 1967. At one point, there were at least 9 queer bars in Portland. Now, there is only left: Blackstones. This story explores the question of why so many gay bars have closed, as well as the need for queer community spaces, and the importance of drag shows. Please Note: This piece discusses sex and contains some profanity.

In November 2018, a great black hawk flew from the Amazon jungle to Deering Oaks Park in Portland Maine. No one knew how it got there, but people loved it so much that soon the stories outgrew the hawk.

We’re saturated with information about what It’s like to be an adult during the pandemic. But what about kiddoes? This a kid’s take on what it means to be alive during COVID-19. Pritha RaySircar takes us into the world of her 10-yr-old nephew. Online learning. Video games. No recess. No soccer practice. Just locked down at home. With his family. And in the end, we’ll hope to learn what it means to be little. In a crisis so large.

A first person account of self-isolating in 300 square feet. Names and voices have been changed to protect identity.

Drive about 20 miles north of Portland, Maine and you’ll arrive at Pineland. It looks like a college campus: brick buildings with stately pillars, it’s surrounded by rolling hills. But Pineland’s exterior doesn’t tell you about its history. It opened as an institution for people with disabilities in 1908. Alexa Burke spoke with people who lived and worked at Pineland to learn about the history of institutionalization and the legacies that remain today.

Despite her youth, healthy lifestyle, and idyllic setting in rural Maine, Kelsey George feels herself becoming sicker and sicker. Without the help of doctors, Kelsey figures out the culprit. She then repairs her health and sets out to protect others from having to go through a frightening health crisis like she experienced. The personal becomes political.

Roland Labbe opened the first gay bar in Portland, Maine, in 1967. At one point, there were at least 9 queer bars in Portland. Now, there is only left: Blackstones. This story explores the question of why so many gay bars have closed, as well as the need for queer community spaces, and the importance of drag shows. Please Note: This piece discusses sex and contains some profanity.

In November 2018, a great black hawk flew from the Amazon jungle to Deering Oaks Park in Portland Maine. No one knew how it got there, but people loved it so much that soon the stories outgrew the hawk.

A first person account of self-isolating in 300 square feet. Names and voices have been changed to protect identity.

COVID-19 has brought death closer than ever- but social distancing rules keeps loved ones apart during their final moments. Elissa Mardiney talks to death experts about how the pandemic is changing dying, and how thinking about death can change the way we live. Please Note: This piece discusses death and contains some profanity.

Despite her youth, healthy lifestyle, and idyllic setting in rural Maine, Kelsey George feels herself becoming sicker and sicker. Without the help of doctors, Kelsey figures out the culprit. She then repairs her health and sets out to protect others from having to go through a frightening health crisis like she experienced. The personal becomes political.