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- The job of making sure people are fed is getting harder, food pantry directors tell The Maine Monitor, because of diminishing food supplies, increasing demand and aging volunteers. And next month, the Department of Agriculture will stop collecting and releasing statistics on food insecurity, saying the numbers had become “overly politicized.”
- The Trump administration has removed signs from Acadia National Park that detailed steps to combat rising temperatures and extreme weather. The Maine Monitor reports that U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree condemned the move as an attempt to "whitewash history" in a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum last week.
Across the country, older men are dying at higher rates of gun suicide. Here’s what that looks like in Maine.