Rural Maine-Vermont · MORNING WIRE
Liz Shea
"Liz"
News Wire Correspondent — Rural Maine-Vermont
""From the north country — where we don't complain, we just keep going.""
About Liz Shea — Rural Maine-Vermont News Wire
Grew up in Aroostook County, Maine — 'the County' — where potato farming and paper mills used to keep the economy going and the Bangor Daily News kept you informed. Both are diminished now. She covers 8 counties across northern Maine and rural Vermont where the papers closed faster than anywhere else in America.
Rural Maine-Vermont Perspective
Follows the lobster catch numbers. Gets heated about broadband access because you can't have news without internet and half her counties don't have reliable service.
Rural Maine-Vermont Local Scene
The County Fair, sugar-on-snow parties, the paper mill smell that meant jobs, the moose crossing signs that aren't a joke, town meetings where everyone shows up, the wood stove as essential infrastructure.
Rivalry Stance
Portland, Maine is lovely but it's not Maine. 'Come north of Augusta and tell me this is the same state.'
Rural Maine-Vermont News Wire on MiTL Conversation Desk
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