If she had done nothing else since moving to Maine, Bremen resident Juanita Roushdy reserved a small place in the state’s history for herself as the founder of The Friends of Hog Island.

For almost his entire life, William “Bill” Bragg has made his living doing the jobs that needed to be done in and around his hometown of Waldoboro.

Leah Puckey spent a good deal of the first half of her life knowing exactly where she was supposed to be and what she was supposed to be doing. After realizing a change of plans in 2007, she has spent much of the last two decades figuring out what comes next.

It’s been said when people in the Boothbay region need to call the Boothbay Register for some reason, they don’t say “I am going to call the newspaper.” They say, “I’m going to call Kevin.”

Boothbay resident Eileen Higgins is living proof of the old adage, “Do something you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”

Breanna Lawrence does not like to wait.
The Jefferson contractor also doesn’t like to sit still or keep people waiting. Emails, text messages, and phone calls are returned quickly and she almost always answers her phone because “you just never know,” she said.

It might surprise some people, but Allison Eddyblouin was not born into the Catholic Church. Her mother was Catholic, but her father was Episcopalian. It was through her mother’s family that Eddyblouin grew up adjacent to the faith. She converted when she was 23.

On the mend from a case of meningitis he contracted in April, David Pope is currently living a new normal.