Governor Janet Mills today held a ceremonial bill signing for LD 2007, legislation that will strengthen research into ALS, a progressive and fatal neuromuscular disease with no known cause, with the hope of eventually finding a way to cure or prevent it.
It's estimated that there are 60 to 70 Mainers living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. But the true number is unknown. In fact, there's a lot about ALS that's unknown. The Maine legislature is considering a measure that supporters say aims to unlock some of the mystery by creating a state ALS registry.
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George O. Tripp, III.
George Tripp passed away at his home on April 23 as a result of ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease.
George was born in 10/09/1949 to parents, George O. Tripp, Jr. and Donna Stone Tripp Mattson. George’s younger years were spent living in Port Clyde with a “gang of kids” as he always put it. He loved to tell stories of these times, such as learning math by counting hot dogs, and about the rear-view mirror on his teacher’s piano designed to catch any who weren’t singing. Later, he moved to Waldoboro with his mother, siblings, and step-father.