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Today's photo of the day: in Springvale by Carol Forbess

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A woman hit her son in a grocery store parking lot. She says it was a spanking. The state says it was child abuse.

The story of one Maine woman’s fight to get her son back offers a rare glimpse inside the state’s secretive child welfare system.

Read this Maine Monitor story by Josh Keefe

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Maine’s Meals on Wheels program gets boost from state, but long waitlist and uncertainty remain | Portland Press Herald

New legislation charts Maine’s pathway to 100% clean energy by 2040 | The Maine Monitor

Dover-Foxcroft enhances EMS response times with new fire department partnership | WGME

The Legislature enacted 116 bills on the special appropriations table. Here’s what that means. | The Maine Monitor

Lewiston’s housing boom getting statewide attention | Sun Journal

Slayings in Chelsea raise questions about Maine’s juvenile mental health system | Portland Press Herald

With federal funding in doubt, Maine’s domestic violence resource centers freeze hiring | The Maine Monitor

OOB business owners keeping fingers crossed after another weekend of rainy weather | WMTW

Westbrook's Carter Amico picked by Philadelphia Flyers in NHL draft | News Center Maine

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