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Jeffrey Good

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Jeffrey Good is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who lives on Orr's Island. He welcomes your ideas: jgoodstories@gmail.com.

First Person: Veteran deputy serves Harpswell in good times and bad

"How did I decide to get into law enforcement? You're going to laugh at this one. I couldn't beat 'em, so I had to join 'em. Growing up in Freeport, I was always speeding and driving like an idiot and getting tickets. I had a warning letter from the state saying, 'We're going to take your license if you get one more conviction.' I did a soul search and figured out this is what I wanted to do."

First Person: As winter arrives, navigating the ‘Groundhog Day’ of homelessness

"One night at the warming center, I looked around and thought of the movie "Groundhog Day." We were all doing the same thing every day, waking up without a home and then passing the day. Some people smoke it away or drink it away. Some people, including me, go to the library. But we all end up back in that same spot, sleeping on blankets spread across the hard floor."

First Person: ‘Grog’ Johnson — officer, gentleman, proud son of Maine

"Swedish settlers began arriving in northern Maine in 1870, leaving behind famine and feudalism. They were paupers and most went to the Midwest, but Maine's economy needed labor to build rail lines. Bowdoin graduate W.W. Thomas Jr. was consul to Sweden during the Civil War, and he helped recruit a group of settlers who were no strangers to hard winters and rocky soil."

First Person: At 80, Marolyn Bibber reflects on family and service

When you're younger, you figure you're going to do this job and live that way for the rest of your life, but you don't. I grew up in the suburbs of Silver Springs, Maryland. My father was an electrical engineer who designed guided missile systems for the Navy, and I went to college and taught elementary school. I never would have imagined that I would move to Maine, marry a fisherman and haul lobster traps. But that's what I did.

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