Barbara A. Walsh

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Barbara A. Walsh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for newspapers in Ireland, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Florida. While working at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, Walsh reported on first-degree killer William Horton Jr. and Massachusetts’ flawed prison-furlough system. The series changed in-state sentencing and furlough laws and won a 1988 Pulitzer Prize. During her career at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, Barbara wrote in-depth series on several social issues in Maine. Many of her stories changed laws and earned national, state and regional awards.
Rhonda McIver applies a salve to the legs of her disabled husband, who is sitting on the sofa.

Barely hanging on

Her grandson took his life. Then her daughter overdosed. “When people are crying for help, you’ve got to take them seriously,” said Rhonda McIver.
A young Washington County student holds a memoriam photo of classmate William McIver, who died by suicide, while standing in the hallway in front of a mental health resource display.

A need for awareness

In a county with few mental health resources, community members are rallying to increase peer support and education around suicide.
A wedding photo of Dan and Carol Lynn Blevins.

Together, to the compassionate end

A pastor and his wife, both suffering from COVID-19, were together through the final moments of a half-century marriage because of the efforts of a loving doctor and a do-what-it-takes Houlton hospital.
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