A monumental task: Getting Mainers to support a new park

MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) — Among the empty storefronts on once-bustling Penobscot Avenue, longtime resident Jean McLean stood in her art gallery, the sole employee left at a business that once had three. “Right now, it’s pretty dead,” McLean said, looking at the sunlit mountains of northern Maine. “All the young people left to find work.” […]