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By CBS News Link to video here. Along Route 1, in Thomaston, Maine, is a store filled with crafts – birdhouses and dollhouses, salad bowls and sailing ships – all made in Maine state prisons. Ted and Barbara Widmayer have been shopping here for decades. “We found the quality to be excellent,” said Ted. “It’s

Doris Buffett, known as a retail philanthropist, died at her home in Rockport on Tuesday, August 4, 2020, at the age of 92. The following tribute was sent to UMA Rockland‘s Director, Deborah Meehan, by Shaun Libby, an inmate at the Maine State Prison. Through Doris Buffett’s generosity, in 2006 the University of Maine at

The Need for Courage at Maine State Prison by Leo Hylton | Jul 10, 2021 “Real courage … is shown by those who don’t merely follow the trend or status quo, but who stand up for that which is right and truly just…” – Mark Twain Over the past several months, I have been blessed to engage with

by Megan Feighery, SD Public Broadcasting Passages is a faith-based ministry focused on helping women re-enter society after prison or homelessness. The new residential building can house fourteen people – double that of the current place. Passages will own this facility after renting for eight years. Marge Beam is the executive director. She says the update

Tuesday, June 22 at 6:30 p.m. Early Education: Bigger than baby steps   Nearly 20 years ago, Doris Buffett, sister to billionaire and philanthropist Warren Buffett, pledged $3 million to create the state’s first Educare center, an innovative early childhood education model intended to help children from birth to 3 years old with emotional, cognitive

Thu, 03/18/2021 – 11:00am Published in the Penobscot Bay Pilot The University of Maine at Augusta and the Maine Department of Corrections have opened the Doris Buffett Higher Education Center at the Maine State Prison in Warren. The ribbon cutting ceremony marked the end of the renovation project at MSP and was a celebration of

CAMDEN — “Finding Our Voices,” the Camden-based, grassroots nonprofit organization marshaling survivor voices and faces to break the silence of domestic abuse, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Sunshine Lady Foundation. Diane Grimsley, The Sunshine Lady Foundation president and board member since 1996, said “This grant was approved knowing that the Sunshine Lady Foundation founder