Retired postal worker to seek legislative seat

BANGOR — Don Shepley has announced he will seek election to the state Legislature in District 124, comprising Hermon, Carmel, Etna, Plymouth and part of Levant.

Shepley is a retired letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Washington, D.C., for eight years.

Shepley worked at the Bangor post office and served the postal system for 30 years before retiring in 1988.

For 20 years while a letter carrier, he was letter carrier representative. He led fund-raising drives for muscular dystrophy and other children’s diseases, and from 1992 to 1995 led a local food drive for more than 20 post offices. More than 75,000 pounds of food was donated to shelters and food kitchens in the eastern Maine area as a result of the drive.