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.

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First Person: Orr’s Island mechanic John Kaler ‘just can’t say no’

"My stepfather ran gas stations all his life. He was old style, where you'd go in and someone would pump your gas, check your oil, wash your windshield. When it was slow at the pumps, he'd show me how to work on the cars in the garage. Growing up, my friends and I had cars, and we'd do our own work."

byJeffrey Good

May 7, 2026

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First Person: For ROMEOs kitchen maven, ‘Food is my love language’

"Growing up in Boston, my mom was first-generation Irish and my dad was first-generation Italian. For both of them, everything was about Sunday. In the morning, you go to church, get your doughnut — our big treat for the week — and then everything was about Sunday supper."

byJeffrey Good

March 4, 2026

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First Person: Cundy’s Harbor pastor traveled the world, then came home to answer the call

"Dean and I were riding our Harley-Davidson through the cornfields of Illinois on our way to visit Minnesota, where he grew up. It was August and the corn was tall. It was like riding through a tunnel. The pastor here, Bob Herring, was retiring, and I was on the board helping to pick a new one."

byJeffrey Good

February 1, 2026

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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."

byJeffrey Good

January 4, 2026

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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."

byJeffrey Good

December 1, 2025

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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."

byJeffrey Good

November 11, 2025

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First Person: ‘Sometimes you just need a teacher there and magic happens’

My mom's family is all from Cundy's Harbor. When I was about 4 years old, when my brother was about to be born, my parents bought a house on Harpswell by the Sea, and I lived there my whole life. Then, after I got married, my husband and I bought the house from my mom. So we live in the house I grew up in, and my kids will grow up in that same house.

byJeffrey Good

September 28, 2025

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First Person: After surviving cancer at a young age, ‘I don’t take anything for granted’

I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up than Harpswell. I was on the water, where I love to fish. Close to the mountains, where I love to ski. Where we lived on Doughty Point Road, there were five of us kids who'd always hang out. We'd take off on our bikes, be free in the neighborhood.

byJeffrey Good

September 2, 2025

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At Bath’s Solo Pane, a new generation builds on decades of culinary tradition

For three years, owner Simone Laboa and his crew at Solo Pane e Pasticceria in downtown Bath have been making a delicious mess. With this summer's expansion of Solo Pane's dining space and menu, that mess will get even bigger — and better.

byJeffrey Good

August 30, 2025

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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.

byJeffrey Good

August 4, 2025

Jeffrey Good

First Person: Orr’s Island mechanic John Kaler ‘just can’t say no’

First Person: For ROMEOs kitchen maven, ‘Food is my love language’

First Person: Cundy’s Harbor pastor traveled the world, then came home to answer the call

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

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

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

First Person: ‘Sometimes you just need a teacher there and magic happens’

First Person: After surviving cancer at a young age, ‘I don’t take anything for granted’

At Bath’s Solo Pane, a new generation builds on decades of culinary tradition

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

Never Not Amazed: We decree

Harpswell Naturalist: Red-breasted nuthatch

Harpswell’s interim harbormaster chosen for permanent role

Jeffrey Good

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