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Cliff Island Post Office Signals A Fading Community
The Cliff Island post office, established 1892, anchors the local community where residents head to collect mail and pass time. With a retiring postmistress and plans to downgrade service, locals fear losing a lifeline that ties the island to the outside world as demographics shrink. The piece reflects on broader debates about sustaining rural post offices amid economic pressures.
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Maine
Ferry Landing
Begonia
Cliff Island
Crotch Island
Cliff
Postal Service
America
Philip Conkling
Island Institute
Eleanor Cushing
Swann’s
Great Cranberry
Frenchboro
Disney
Man Rockwell
Beecher Doody
Postal Review
Earl Blumenauer
Oregon
Cushing
Elen Goodman
The
Boston Globe