UpdatedWed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:07 pm ET
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Find a sampling of the best pet and animal stories from Patch in 2020 below. (Shutterstock)
ACROSS AMERICA Some of the most remarkable stories from 2020 involve our beloved pets and animal friends.
Here is a sampling of the volume of pet and animal stories you ll find on Patch s more than 1,200 community news sites across America: Miracle Peninsula Chameleon Reunited With Owner: Meraxes, a 1½-year-old exotic lizard named after a Game of Thrones character, was reunited with his owner a day after news broke across the Bay Area that Peninsula Humane Society workers pulled him to safety from a power wire.
StrengthenME Programs Helping Mainers Cope
The last 9 or 10 months have been hard. We all had our own stress and issues before all of this started and then mid-March arrived and BOOM pandemic and all its related issues. How that has been for each of us is so different because we all different; how we handle stress, what the issue is related too and our traditional coping methods.
To help Mainers the Maine Department of Health and Human Services started this in the fall and it has the hope and goal of helping us cope with the pandemic and the stress surrounding that issue. It is called StrengthenME.