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Florence House can house 50 or more former homeless women. The building includes 25 efficiency apartments , a safe-haven area with 15 semi-private spaces and 10 to 25 emergency shelter beds [ 2 ] The $7.9 million facility was completed on April 6, 2009. [ 3 ]
The homeless population is disproportionately African American; 2% of Mainers are Black, whereas 47% of homeless people in Maine are Black. 48% are White, lower than the state's 92% White figure; 0.5% are Asian/Pacific Islander compared to Maine being 1.5% Asian, and the Native American homeless population is roughly the same as the general ...
Family Crisis Center staff members gather outside the new extension to Marge's Place, the organization's shelter for domestic violence victims, during an Oct. 19 open house celebration in Farmington.
Nearly 200 asylum seekers from African countries have traded one temporary home in Maine's largest city for another Wednesday after a basketball arena that served as a shelter closed. About 10 ...
SANFORD, Maine — Last year at around this time, approximately 40 people were identified as homeless in Sanford, according to police Maj. Matthew Gagne.
Farmington is a town in and the county seat of Franklin County, Maine, United States. [2] As of the 2020 census , its population was 7,592. [ 3 ] Farmington is home to the University of Maine at Farmington , Nordica Memorial Auditorium, the Nordica Homestead, and the annual Farmington Fair.
The day after the mass shootings in Lewiston, the streets were empty of locals who are sheltering in place.
In 1912, Farmington Normal School (today the University of Maine at Farmington) principal Wilbert G. Mallett bought the house. [2] On February 26, 2012, the owner of the house, Deborah Mallett Cressall, died, and her family offered the Farmington Historical Society the chance to buy the house at a steeply reduced price.