by Guest Blogger Anna Cuevas Foreclosure can be devastating, causing losses far greater than the family home. In fact, foreclosure affects all aspects of our lives—including our mental, physical, financial, emotional, and even spiritual well-being. Naturally, those facing foreclosure are directly impacted, but the effects of foreclosure into the homes, lives, and businesses of everyone throughout the community. Eventually, even those [...]

by Guest Blogger Anna Cuevas  Whether they are 30 days late or 90 days late, there has been a recent rise in mortgage defaults. The foreclosure rates that temporarily slowed during the government’s initial push toward loan modifications are once again on the rise. Currently, more than seven million American homeowners are in some sort of mortgage [...]

by Guest Blogger Anna Cuevas Homeowners who are in mortgage default and at risk of foreclosure rarely know that options to save their homes are available, and very few know to navigate their way through the complicated process. In all honesty, many banks and lenders aren’t fully aware of the guidelines and regulations of the loan modification [...]

I Write in the Green­house is Maine poet Car­ole Bachofner’s title. But I am steal­ing it! I write in a green­house, too, and here it is. It’s warm inside, even in the mid­dle of a Maine win­ter. I can be near my plants. It’s where lis­ten to the singers of the ‘six­ties, my for­ma­tive years — [...]

by Guest Blooger Betsy Connor Bowen There are three rea­sons why I love Wal­doboro and I haven’t even gone there yet. 1. Wal­doboro has an annual fish count. Wal­doboro sits where the Medo­mack River emp­ties into the Atlantic, and it seems that alewives go up theMedo­mack to spawn. They start up the river in May and local vol­un­teers work two-hour [...]

by Guest Blogger Betsy Connor Bowen Up at 6 a.m. and dri­ving on snowy roads by 7 to meet Amber Jeskey’s class, which had just read Spring Bear.  She turned out to be a top-notch, no-nonsense Eng­lish teacher with a sharp lit­er­ary mind  and the skills of a drill sergeant. Her class of thir­teen guys and seven gals, all seniors at Medo­mak Val­ley High School [...]