Ari Snider
Report for America ReporterAri Snider reports on refugee, immigrant, and asylum-seeking communities in Maine. He is a Report for America corps member. He grew up in Midcoast Maine and has reported for public radio stations in Southeast Alaska and Far West Texas, covering everything from salmon fishing to the restoration of a historic adobe church on the US-Mexico border. He got his start in audio storytelling as an undergrad at Brown University and through internships at radio stations in Vermont and Rhode Island. His work has won three Alaska Press Club awards and one Regional Murrow Award, and has aired on radio stations throughout Alaska, Texas, and New England. When looking to get out of town for a weekend, Ari has a special fondness for the islands of Penobscot Bay and the lakes and mountains of the North Woods.
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A report released earlier this month proposes a sponsorship program pairing immigrants with medical backgrounds with Maine's teaching hospitals.
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Gov. Janet Mills and state lawmakers formally unveiled legislation Friday to establish the Maine Office of New Americans.
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Superintendent Tim Matheney called it "the most vile email message" he'd seen during 35 years working in education.
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While relatively few Venezuelans have arrived in Maine compared to other states, some are finding support here through informal networks of friends, family, and former colleagues.
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The crash occurred Wednesday morning. Workers from the nearby wastewater treatment plant were some of the first on the scene.
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Meteorologist Michael Cempa, with the National Weather Service in Gray, said the worst flooding could occur at high tide Wednesday morning.
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The Mills administration is set to submit a plan for the new office in January.
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Earlier this year, several groups scrambled to set up a transitional housing program in the Frances Warde house as the city grappled with a growing crisis for pregnant and new mother asylum seekers.
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Through November, adult use recreational marijuana sales were just shy of $200 million.
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The buildings, at the former Naval Air Station, will house around 125 people.