BRUNSWICK — Marion Hazel Sheen Bernier, 91, of Lisbon, went peacefully to the Lord, with her daughters by her side on Saturday, August 19. She was born in Bowdoin, Maine on January 15, 1926, a daughter of the late Edward and Carrie (Douglass) Sheen. She married her sweetheart, Albert J. Bernier, Jr. on February 22, […]
August 2017
Posted inDear Abby, sj-web
Family's tolerance of verbal abuse is red flag for girlfriend
DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been together for almost a year and a half. In the beginning, he kept his family and me apart. I thought it was because they were extremely close, but turns out he was doing me a favor given their inappropriate and cruel treatment of one another. At my […]
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Briefly: City
United New Auburn Association meeting AUBURN — The United New Auburn Association Inc. will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 29. Sabattus Seniors to meet SABATTUS — Sabattus Seniors will meet Thursday, Sept. 7, at Maxwell-Gill Hall. The meal for this meeting will be meatloaf. Reservations are required by Thursday, Aug. 31, by contacting. 207-375-4037. Information on Helen’s […]
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Gerald A. LePage
AUGUSTA — Gerald A. LePage, of Lewiston, died on Sunday, August 13, at the Togus Veterans Medical Center in Augusta. Born in Lewiston on January 5, 1943 he was a son of Henry and Ada Smith LePage. Gerry worked for several years at Fairlawn Golf Course before he retired. He loved meeting every morning for […]
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Lewiston School Committee OKs $90K for nurse practitioner
LEWISTON — The School Committee voted 6-1 Monday night to spend $90,000 for a nurse practitioner. A grant that had paid for the position was eliminated by the state. Community Clinical Services, which is affiliated with St. Mary’s Health System, has provided counseling and medical support to the Lewiston school system since the early 2000s, […]
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SAD 17 promises to return state money to taxpayers
PARIS — The majority of Oxford Hills School District directors supported the Budget Committee recommendation to return more than $500,000 to taxpayers from the additional state subsidy received this summer. Despite an amendment offered by Norway Director Michael Marshall to put $524,513 of the $1.04 million received into the Capital Reserve account, other directors argued […]
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New Gloucester garage vote by residents nixed
NEW GLOUCESTER — A warrant for a special town meeting Sept. 18 to approve building a town garage and a salt/sand shed was not signed by selectmen Monday night because the motion failed in a 2-2 vote. The project is dead, unless the motion is reconsidered or citizens put forth a petition requesting the vote be […]
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Turner selectmen uphold ATV access decision
TURNER — The Board of Selectmen on Monday reviewed a resident’s letter complaining that more than 20 ATVs passed by her house on Back Cove Drive on Saturday. “Although they were traveling slowly, the sound of these machines is very disruptive,” Robin Nadeau wrote in the letter, which was signed by her husband, Michael Nadeau. […]
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Wooden joins family practice
FARMINGTON — Franklin Memorial Hospital announces that, effective Sept. 1, local physician Paul Wooden, MD, will join Franklin Health Livermore Falls Family Practice. Wooden is a family physician who specializes in the treatment and prevention of skin cancer and other skin diseases. He previously was in private practice in Farmington and has been a member […]
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Grant-writing workshop offered
FARMINGTON — The United Way of the Tri-Valley Area is sponsoring a two-day workshop titled Winning the Race While Taking On Water: Grant Writing in Challenging Seas.” It will be facilitated by Karen Barrett, Ph.D, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays, Sept. 7 and 14, Room 329, University of Maine at Farmington Education Center. […]