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Matt Junker

@mattjunker

Mainer. Sports Editor @bangordailynews. Formers include @OnlineSentinel @LakesRegWeekly and office of @SenAngusKing.

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Dayvon Johnson, a sixth-grader from Oklahoma, performed the Heimlich maneuver on a classmate. Then, that same day, Dayvon rescued an elderly woman from a burning house. essence.com/news/sixth-gra…

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Trooper Tyler Harrington found the man in a ditch, who was suffering from severe hypothermia and frostbite. bangordailynews.com/2021/12/23/new…

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Maine saw some of the greatest population growth due to migration of any US state over the past year. But that figure obscured some other troubling population trends - namely, births were the lowest they have been since at least 1960. bangordailynews.com/2021/12/27/new…

Maine saw some of the greatest population growth due to migration of any US state over the past year.

But that figure obscured some other troubling population trends - namely, births were the lowest they have been since at least 1960.
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“You’ve probably heard it takes a village to raise children. These kids in particular need a very specific type of village,” Mackenzie said. “Starting in 2020, our villages were destroyed for all of these kids, just like mine.”

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Today a lobsterman is taking passengers out for rides to see the bird -- the only way to get a look as its been perched on the backside of an island for several hours. So cool.

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"To recognize honest differences of opinion, and to make serious effort to get other people’s point of view" "To ask no privileges for ourselves we are not willing to accord to others"

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It's still the first week of January and I think we've already reached our yearly cap on bird puns. Or perhaps 2022 will be a year of soaring to new heights.

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“But we cannot, in my view, continue to spread contaminaments knowingly on agricultural land and elsewhere,” Bennett continued. “We just need to say, ‘Stop it.’”

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“I knew if I could find the rhythm of whatever I was experiencing, that I could do all of my work and know who I am, keep trying to get to that core of who I am."

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A devastatingly effective, fair and fact based interview by an Irish journalist with Russian’s ambassador to Ireland. “Why should our government entertain your presence here when you’re acting as an apologist for slaughter.”

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"As peace and windows shatter, I am trying really hard — despite the awful tightness in my chest — to remain hopeful."

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“It was like I witnessed 80 funerals all at once,” Seamans said. “These people saying goodbye to their boyfriends, their fathers, their husbands, not knowing if they’re ever going to see them again."

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So, I wrote a thing today (and launched a new column). Seemed like a good time to speak up. bangordailynews.com/2022/06/24/opi…