How we easily misjudge and stereotype each other. An example being comments made in reference to Staff Writer Eric Russell’s fine article on COVID stimulus need last Wednesday (for which I was interviewed). “People who can own a house in Harpswell are wealthy.” What of those who built or bought in the boondocks, paid a […]
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Eighty-four-year-old Nola Denslow of Harpswell says her home is paid for, but her monthly budget is tight. Denlow is one of the many Mainers pushing for additional stimulus money.
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If he’d known the $1,200 stimulus check he received last April would be the only assistance for more than eight months, Corbin Onorato might have tried to stretch it a little further.
Onorato, 31, is a long-haul truck driver who moved to Bath from Southern California not long before the pandemic hit. He lives with his girlfriend, who lost her job and hasn’t found another. His income, which is about $4,500 per month when he’s on the road, supports them both. His biggest bills are $1,500 for rent and utilities and food, but he also has to pay travel expenses when he’s hauling, sometimes for a couple months at a time. He ends up with a little money leftover each month, but that usually gets drained when he’s not on the road because he’s