I was told to find my wife before I graduated UMaine

Dude apparently you don't know lobstermen. They don't drive brand new trucks and often are poor as shit.

there are a couple of places:

https://bostonmaine.squarespace.com/mecvalplans Maine Central Valuation Plans

https://digitalmaine.com/archives/ Maine State Archives

https://www.loc.gov/maps/collections/ Library of Congress

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Another place to look is to search for Sanborn Maps of the area you are looking for - most were done between 1880s and 1930s, but only "urban" areas, like Dover-Foxcroft or Skowhegan or such.

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You might also check the Penobscot County Registry for the valuation ("val") plans on that stretch - I know they're in there, but it might take a bit of digging.

https://penobscotdeeds.com/ALIS/WW400R.HTM?WSIQTP=SY00

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ETA: you might also check with a local survey firm, or the Maine Society of Land Surveyors.

For in-town industries, I recommend looking for the old Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of Newport/Dexter/Foxcroft (you can find them through the Library of Congress website). For more rural industries, your best bet would be the topographical maps (Historic Aerials has a lot of them, including old top-down aerial photography).

DG has amassed millions in fines nationally. Shit show

That's how it is in Portland as well

The swat team fled the scene of an accident?

> a fraction of an inch in only certain fishing zones.

It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's not a convenience store. Eat some grass.

It’s a fucking convenience store. Touch some grass.

We could use more of all three really.

Life at any state other than Maine is so much better. Leave for more than a week and you’ll see that you are living life on the highest difficulty level. Maine has the 3rd highest food prices and rent/ buying a home is out of control. The older population is retiring and the labor shortage will only get worse. The drug use here is horrific and the youth are dying everyday. The education system is terrible ranking #40 in the us. The smart youth leave as soon as they get a chance. This state is dying (literally) boycott Maine , it’s literally one of the worst states in the us by almost all metrics

Volunteer. You meet people, you help people, you gain confidence in yourself from helping others. Some of the best people I’ve met have been through helping others. Look at it less as trying to meet other people and more as working on yourself.

Also become a regular somewhere. Coffee shop, bookstore, etc. become known as a friendly person and you will run into other friendly people. I personally rely on bookstores and gardening to meet other people. Both are non-threatening environments that people are usually open to having conversations in.

Through friends and mutual acquaintances.

Yup, there’s a reason they are never in a hurry.

If you can expense it and get a new truck why not?

I really struggled in Portland as an early 20-something. Bars and clubs were places I would go with my friends and not really where I was in the space to find someone.

I was on the apps a lot but extremely picky about actually meeting up with people; there were a lot of frogs to sift through! I literally went on one app date ever, when I was 24, from Hinge, and we’ve now been together for over 6 years and married for a year and a half.

I’m sorry I don’t have any useful advice, but I will say it’s possible. But it sucks until you get there. The best way I can describe it is that the dating pool in Maine is very shallow: decent size with lots of options, but very few that are viable and right for any one person.

Ooooooh that will show them!

These greedy junk shops use understaffing as a profit extraction strategy.

You butchered it.

One of these almost killed my dog a few years back. Those quills are dangerous as hell.

We’ve got one in our yard too, hangs out with us early spring and late fall. Could probably walk right up to him and pet him on the head if he wasn’t.. a porcupine

Deemed a severe violator, signifying nothing.

The one in Portland (Arcadia) is pretty cool, Trivia night on Thursdays!

Inside: Peas, lavender, basil, rosemary, oregano, few types of squashes, French and African marigolds, couple types of cucumbers, 3 types of tomatoes.

Outside I saw the garlic scrapes popping through the straw I buried them in, peach tree has buds, over wintered carrots look healthy

My better half always says these fuckers are like the Kelp Shacks on SpongeBob. They even sell an autobiographical account of their company at the check out isle that explains how they try to take over small towns essentially.