50 Years Service a Small Town in Maine

"We're bouncing around in the front seat of his green, mud-splattered Chevy pickup truck and Don Jordan - wearing a battered ball cap and a well-worn barn jacket - becomes the inadvertent narrator of his half-century of public service.

"There are roads to plow. There's trash to collect. Taxes, too. The local fire department has eight volunteer members and needs new blood.

"The population is about 120. And dwindling. Last year there were no births in the town. And one death. And one marriage."

A recenter Boston Globe column profiled Mr. Jordan and his public service in Aurora, Maine.

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